About cameras and views

In a 3D workspace, everything is seen from the viewpoint of a camera. If you want to export your project specifically from a camera view, you must add a scene camera. When you add a scene camera to a project, additional reference cameras become available to help you see your composition from various angles, such as top, bottom, left, and right. Scene cameras are used for rendering output when you export your project; what you see through the scene camera represents your final render. Reference cameras are not used for rendering.

• Framing: Sets the camera origin (or anchor point) at the focal plane (a plane perpendicular to the camera’s local Z axis—in other words, perpendicular to your line of sight as you look at the Canvas). The position of a Framing camera’s origin makes it useful for orbiting moves—rotating the camera causes it to orbit.

  

• Viewpoint: Sets the camera origin (or anchor point) at the center of projection, “inside” the virtual camera. Rotating a Viewpoint camera causes it to pivot—also known as panning (horizontal) or tilting (vertical).

  For more information, see Controls in the Camera Inspector.

You set the scene camera type (Framing or Viewpoint) in the Camera Inspector. Scene cameras appear in the Layers list and Canvas (as wireframe objects that you can move and rotate to change your point of view).