pymel.core.rendering.viewPlace

static rendering.viewPlace(*args, **kwargs)

This command positions the camera as specified. The lookAt and viewDirection flags are mutually exclusive, as are the ortho and perspective flags. If this command switches a camera from ortho to perspective or the other way around without specifying a new field of view, then one is calculated based on a heuristic involving the selected objects. If the camera is not specified on the command line, the command will check to see if there is a camera on the active list. The user should be aware that some positions will be unattainable. For example, using a new camera located at the origin and specifying a lookAt of [0 0 -5] and an up of [1 1 1]. In these cases, the camera will always aim at the lookAt, and the new up direction will be determined by transforming the specified up into camera space and then projecting this vector onto a plane defined by the camera’s up and right vectors. Using the example above, the new up vector will be [1 1 0].

Flags:

Long name (short name)		Argument Types	Properties
animate (an)		bool
eyePoint (eye)		float, float, float
	The new eye point in world coordinates.
fieldOfView (fov)		float
	The new field of view (in degrees, for perspective cameras, and in world distance for ortho cameras)
lookAt (la)		float, float, float
	The new look-at point in world coordinates.
ortho (o)		bool
	Sets the camera to be orthgraphic.
perspective (p)		bool
	Sets the camera to be perspective.
upDirection (up)		float, float, float
	The new up direction vector. Flag can have multiple arguments, passed either as a tuple or a list.
viewDirection (vd)		float, float, float
	The new view direction vector.

Derived from mel command maya.cmds.viewPlace

Example:

import pymel.core as pm

# Create a new camera
cam = pm.camera();
camShape = cam[1];

pm.viewPlace( camShape, p=True, fov=20 )

pm.viewPlace( camShape, eye=(0, 0, 20) )

pm.viewPlace( camShape, la=(0, 0, 0) )