Help with Orthographic cameras

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Hi

I hope this is the right place for this. I tried asking this question once before, but never got a response. :-\

There’s something that’s always baffled me with Unreal Editor - setting up a decent orthographic camera view. From what I gather, only the CameraActor allows you to toggle between Perspective and Orthographic views, correct?

Perspective always works correctly without issues, but whenever I try to set it to Ortho, it looks… terrible.

Persp:

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Ortho:

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I’ve tried playing around with the settings, but everything looks strange. And many things look as though they’re clipping. Also, it doesn’t seem as though I can position the camera correctly, or zoom in/out, with the mouse and keyboard like you can in Persp. :-\ If I get the camera in a particular position/rotation, all I see is a grid behind and no sky.

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And that’s in Lit mode, too.

Could someone help me set up a decent Orthorgraphic setup with a camera for doing beauty renders? This is something I’ve never been able to get right so far. Thanks.

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Orthographic (I believe) doesnt use lighting and possibly not even post processing as its made for 2d style games.

I may be wrong so please dont quote me.

I cheated my way passed this , well sort of

I needed a side on camera but didnt want the other faces showing when i moved the camera. I managed to get it to work but its not perfect.

To do this i set the camera FOV to around 10° but i had to then move my camera and background elements to try compensate, and it seem to work pretty well.

Its not perfect tho, hope it helps you

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Thanks for the reply. :slight_smile: Was that with a CameraActor? That camera type seems to be the only one that allows you to switch between Ortho and Persp, but I’m not seeing a FOV slider. Unless it’s called something else…?

Thanks

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yeah a camera actor

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Ahh, I see. Yeah, it looks like that can only be adjusted in Perspective mode. If you go into Orthographic, that’s no longer an option to change. I believe my university suggested your method too. It seems to be the only reliable method for getting an ortho view for beauty renders.

Thanks

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