Help With Placing and Using Cameras in Surveyor

[ArthurDaniels]

I am requesting some help with placing and using cameras in Surveyor. I have attempted to place Static Cameras on my virtual model of my HO Model RR. I can see the cameras by zooming out after placement, but I do not see them in a Quick Drive Session. Also, there is no Static Camera option on the Camera pull-down menu, so I don't know how to activate them for use during a Session.

Thanks in advance for help.

 

[amrail2000]

after you place your cameras and go into quick drive, hit your 3 key. and then when the train goes by, you'll see it from the camera view.

 

[cascaderailroad]

I have my own special way of placing rotating trackside camera's.

the camera is dependent on the where abouts of the blinding, ol' yeller' compass.

I go zoomed in, and find a place for the blinding, ol' yeller' compass @ almost right on top the track, then pan up and down using the KB arrow keys, moving the camera a little at a time, until the FOV is all the way down low (like a pedestrian railfan's point of view), and is @ 10m-20m distant the track. Cameras always follow the center of a loco at the bottom of the fuel tank. I found that when placing a camera, by pressing the arrow keys @ 3 short bursts, away from the track, results in a uniform slightly more pleasant zoomed out view.

Very hard to describe, so I may post screenshots, or a video to better describe camera placement.

You can view a defective camera, and click on the "move camera" button ... and adjust it's right left up down angle position ... then press any above ruler buttons to "Set" the camera placement.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Laying cameras requires various KB shortcut commands, such as Shift Arrow(s), and backing off 4-5 distance clicks using PG UP/PG Down, and up/down right/left Arrow keys.

Static cameras get a little old, but rotating camers need to be raised to a higher pitch elevation, as viewing a bottom of a passing locos fuel tank also gets a little old ... I hate when people make a fabulous video and use the "ride along" chase whirleybird view ... most railfans do not have a helicopter to fly along pacing with a train, and chase mode looks as unprototypical as Thomas in Trainz

 

[cascaderailroad]

Bump ... Rotating trackside cameras seem outdated, and need redevelopment, as they always follow just the very bottom center of the loco, or railcar, looking down at the railhead. If they were pitch adjustable in the config file, making it possible to aim the camera towards the top center of the loco or railcar, that would be acceptable.

But the ultimate would be a panning camera that rotates from R to L, and osculates like a pedestal floor fan does, back and forth on a 45 or 90 degree range of osculation. Where one could adjust the config file numerals to achieve the desired speed, and degree of osculation.

The: camerman "Smile you're on camera" <KUID2:201734:99000158:1> by: coutumariee, would be an excellent base for the osculating camera

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