Renders the chain to a texture with Smooth Fly, Orbit, or Fixed navigation, depth of field, a target, a linked camera, and a depth output.

The Camera node ends a surface chain: geometry must reach the Output through it, and it outputs a texture. It also broadcasts its pose to every other 3D render in the patch.

Camera

Mode Smooth Fly, Orbit, or Fixed with WASDQE flight
Depth of Field block
Output Beauty or Depth
Found in the node graph under Surfaces → Camera

Example patch — drag onto the app to load

The image on the right is the example patch itself. Drag and drop it onto the app, or load it with File → Load, to open the full graph. A torus knot through a camera.

Inputs and outputs

Camera node

Port	Type	Purpose
Surface	Surface	The chain to render.
Target	Surface	An object to look at.
Focus Target	Surface	The DoF focus object.
Linked Camera	Surface	An SDF Camera or Multicam whose pose this camera follows.
Origin Object	Surface	A Null to rig the camera.
Output	Texture	The rendered frame.
Depth	Texture	Linear depth.

Parameters

Mode (default Smooth Fly), WASDQE Speed (default 6), Smoothing Amount, Mouse Sensitivity, Mouse Look/Orbit.
Pivot (Manual or Auto-Frame Content), Distance (default 6), Yaw, Pitch (default 18), Roll, Orbit Angle, Auto-Rotate (Orbit).
Eye X / Y / Z, FOV (default 40), Near Clip, Far Clip.
Depth of Field with DoF Blend, Focus (Auto or Manual Distance), Focus Distance, Aperture (f-stop) (default 2), Max Blur (px), Bokeh Shape, Bokeh Rotation, Bokeh Sparkle.
Follow Target Input, Target Smoothing, Target Offset X / Y / Z.
Output — Beauty (default) or Depth (Linear) with Depth Range.

Every slider has a per-parameter animation bar, so it can be animated, audio driven, or MIDI mapped.

Examples

Orbit shot — Mode Orbit, Auto-Rotate (Orbit) 0.3.

Troubleshooting

The flight keys do nothing — the pointer must be over the viewport. Press F to latch the camera.

Other 3D renders moved — every camera publishes to one shared pose. Use a Linked Camera on purpose, or one camera per patch.

Multicam

Switch between cameras.

SDF Camera

The SDF rig.

The Camera node ends a surface chain: geometry must reach the Output through it, and it outputs a texture. It also broadcasts its pose to every other 3D render in the patch.

Camera

Mode Smooth Fly, Orbit, or Fixed with WASDQE flight
Depth of Field block
Output Beauty or Depth
Found in the node graph under Surfaces → Camera

The image on the right is the example patch itself. Drag and drop it onto the app, or load it with File → Load, to open the full graph. A torus knot through a camera.

Inputs and outputs

Camera node

Port	Type	Purpose
Surface	Surface	The chain to render.
Target	Surface	An object to look at.
Focus Target	Surface	The DoF focus object.
Linked Camera	Surface	An SDF Camera or Multicam whose pose this camera follows.
Origin Object	Surface	A Null to rig the camera.
Output	Texture	The rendered frame.
Depth	Texture	Linear depth.

Parameters

Mode (default Smooth Fly), WASDQE Speed (default 6), Smoothing Amount, Mouse Sensitivity, Mouse Look/Orbit.
Pivot (Manual or Auto-Frame Content), Distance (default 6), Yaw, Pitch (default 18), Roll, Orbit Angle, Auto-Rotate (Orbit).
Eye X / Y / Z, FOV (default 40), Near Clip, Far Clip.
Depth of Field with DoF Blend, Focus (Auto or Manual Distance), Focus Distance, Aperture (f-stop) (default 2), Max Blur (px), Bokeh Shape, Bokeh Rotation, Bokeh Sparkle.
Follow Target Input, Target Smoothing, Target Offset X / Y / Z.
Output — Beauty (default) or Depth (Linear) with Depth Range.

Every slider has a per-parameter animation bar, so it can be animated, audio driven, or MIDI mapped.

Camera

Inputs and outputs

Parameters

Examples

Troubleshooting

Multicam

SDF Camera

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Camera

Inputs and outputs

Parameters

Examples

Troubleshooting

Multicam

SDF Camera

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