Viewfinder - Camera Management Tool

by TinkerBoi in Addons


Viewfinder

Elevate your camera game in Blender with Viewfinder! Viewfinder is especially helpful when you have a large environment with many cameras. It helps you organize and preview your cameras, you can also switch your cameras with ease. It even has a small overlay to view your camera while you work on your scene.


Highlighted Features

Viewfinder comes with many utility features for cameras, below are the highlighted features in Viewfinder.

Camera Switching

This addon presents the camera in a list form to help you easily switch between multiple cameras.


Camera Organization

You can view all your cameras on the side panel for easy access, simplifying the process of managing multiple cameras in the scene.

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Cameras can be tagged and filtered for organization purpose.

With each camera item listed, you can do the following.
  • View the Camera

  • Select the Camera

  • Find the Camera (Frame Selected)

  • Bind Camera to Timeline Markers

  • Remove the Camera

  • Change the Camera Settings


Camera Preview

You can preview active camera without looking into the camera.

Note

Cycles Render will not show in Camera Preview.


Easy Camera Creation

You can easily create a camera in your scene and bind it to a marker at the current frame.



Chaneglog:

Old Changelog

17/12/2021: Addon Released!

30/12/2021: Added Ability to Store and Set Resolution on Camera!

24/4/2022: Renamed Some Operators to Be Less Confusing

Viewfinder 1.6.0- 10/02/2024

1. Added Pin Camera, Camera Priority (Reordering), Select Camera Target (Constraint), Collapse Subpanel Toggle

Viewfinder 1.7.0- 10/06/2024

1. UI Changes - Side Button

Some Buttons are moved to the side, similar to typical Listbox UI in Blender.

  • Toggle All Subpanel and Lock Camera to View is moved to the Side.
  • Create Camera From View is also added to the side, but the button below the list still remains
  • Icon Expose button will be move to the side as menu to stay consistent with All TinkerBoi Addon
  • The Camera Filter (Active, Selected, Scene, All is now next to the Search Box
  • Added Tag Filter Search Box

2. Tag System

Viewfinder will be getting a Tag System similar to Action Commander

  • The Tags can be toggled by clicking the buttons
  • You can Filter by Match All or Match Any

3. Remove Redundant Feature

Fix Spelling Mistake in Preferences (Viewfinder Operator Panel -> Viewfinder Camera List Panel)

4. Fixing Mistake in Preferences

Fix Boolean for Viewfinder Camera List Panel in Preferences

Viewfinder 1.8.0- 23/07/2024

No New Feature is added

  1. Fix Error when camera have constraints that has no target attribute
  2. Add Name Property to Create Constrained Camera From Selected Curves
  3. Fix Create Constrained Camera From Selected Curves Mistake (Apparently it creates Curve Object for no Reason)


If You want to suggest an improvement or report a problem, lets discuss it in Discord Channel

Sales 100+
Customer Ratings 2
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Dev Fund Contributor
Published over 2 years ago
Blender Version 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.93
Extension Type Add-on
License GPL
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