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The default perspective camera ignores this setting unless the Adaptive Near/Far Clip checkbox located under the Near/Far Clip control is disabled.
NOTE: A smaller range between the near and far clipping planes allows greater accuracy in all depth calculations. If a scene begins to render strange artifacts on distant objects, try increasing the distance for the Near Clip plane.
NOTE: A smaller range between the near and far clipping planes allows greater accuracy in all depth calculations. If a scene begins to render strange artifacts on distant objects, try increasing the distance for the Near Clip plane.
NOTE: A smaller range between the near and far clipping planes allows greater accuracy in all depth calculations. If a scene begins to render strange artifacts on distant objects, try increasing the distance for the Near Clip plane.
The clip values use units, so a far clipping plane of 20 means that any object more than 20 units from the camera is invisible to the camera. A near clipping plane of 0.1 means that any object closer than 0.1 units is also invisible.
When selected, the renderer automatically adjusts the camera’s Near/Far Clipping plane to match the extents of the scene. This setting overrides the values of the Near and Far clip range controls described above. This option is not available for orthographic cameras.
In the real world, a lens’ focal length is the distance from the center of the lens to the film plane. The shorter the focal length, the closer the focal plane is to the back of the lens. The focal length is measured in millimeters. The angle of view and focal length controls are directly related. Smaller focal lengths produce a wider angle of view, so changing one control automatically changes the other to match.
The relationship between focal length and angle of view is angle = 2 * arctan[aperture / 2 / focal_ length]. Use the vertical aperture size to get the vertical angle of view and the horizontal aperture size to get the horizontal angle of view.
Like a focal point on a real-world camera, this setting defines the distance from the camera to an object and is used to calculate depth of field.
This is used to define the aperture size of the synthetic lens; it will affect exposure and is used to calculate depth of field.
Film Back
This section allows you to control the technical parameters of the non-lens part of the camera.
The Horizontal Aperture Width and Vertical Aperture Height sliders control the dimensions of the camera’s aperture or the portion of the camera that lets light in on a real-world camera. In video and film cameras, the aperture is the size of the opening that defines the area of each frame exposed, also known as sensor size.
Provides controls to manually offset the camera lens width and height.