- Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:50 am
#47540
Set your Maya scene units to centimeter in the Preferences.
Scale your object so it's the real-world size, as measured in centimeters. You can check the scale by using the Distance measure tool in the Create menu. (You just click a start point and and end point and it'll tell you the distance.)
Then select the object that you want at the center of your scene and press 'f' to focus on it. Then you can move your camera back. Probably, you will have to go into Camera Attributes and increase the Far Clip plane from the default 1000 to something higher. I just set mine to 100000 and forget about it.
Learn about cameras, typical film ASA, typical f-stops, and shutter speeds, don't just randomly guess. As a very, very general rule, you should begin to shoot your indoor stuff with a film ISO of 400, and start with shutter speeds around 1/60. An f-stop of about 4.8-8 is a good starting point. Your outdoor sun+physical sky stuff you should start with an ISO of 100 and shutter speed of 1/125.
_Mike