← All ideas
  • Published 16 Mar 2019

Render Button... and lock camera to viewport button.

It would be more intuitive and fluent for the render button to be in the Viewport because taking a photo in real life is simple as clicking a button when looking at something you like. In Blender, there are a lot of confusing tricks that come into play, dealing with angling camera without knowing the hotkeys, learning about the outliners and modifier camera visibility options, useful options like lock to view are hidden in one area when settings and the render buttons are in another, for some reason it brings up a new cluttering pop window instead of just switching the themed tabs, and all of this is hard to test Blender will crash because it ran out of ram. Most of the camera’s features really don’t become useful until you introduce animation, so I think this is something worth simplifying and streamlining. Whenever I am in the viewport I press the camera button half expecting for it to take a viewport rendering like in 2.79, I’m not sure how to do that anymore but instead, it goes to camera view, it would be crazy in real life to be looking through a camera with the button and yet its no where to be seen. Fortunately, the gizmo and perspective UI disappear, making room lock to view (the same way people in real life can look around through a camera), and a snapshot button, along with a drop down for the more advanced rendering options.

Blender-Purposals_06.png

92.9%

Development Status: Open

Upvote 13 Downvote 1
NavWombat
16 Mar 2019

6 Comments

pablovazquez

The Lock Camera to View toggle has been added and will be part of Blender 4.1

projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/111076

knorthfe

A render button could be nice, but as for locking the camera to view that exists if you press N to bring up the properties/view panel and check it Image

NavWombat Author

* @knorthfe * Ah so there it is, thanks! Hmm that is still pretty hidden for as useful as it is. Personally I would prefer a icon, so the UI feels more consistent and for efficiency.

Josephbburg

* @knorthfe * Thank you for this, I had no idea this was there! Been wanting this for sculpting - now I can keep several view of my object at once, all of them orbiting to give me a full view of the silhouette at all times!

NavWombat Author

* @Josephbburg * Yeah that says a lot about its current location, I am going to update this proposal.

dpdpforlife

* @wondraknathan * I like the idea of the lock icon. This is something I have to do all the time, so it would be nice to have quick access to the feature.

1