Today I want to tell you about a feature of
3D models in PowerPoint 365 that very few
people actually play around with – and that
is the viewing window and positions of the
camera, which can help you create some very
cool fly in and zooming effects with your
3D models.
So let’s dive in and take a look at these
in more detail.
First, let’s start with the basic settings,
which are the model rotation options here.
If you have a 3d model like a car for example,
you can rotate it along its X-axis, Y-axis,
and Z-axis using just the settings here.
Now these advanced camera settings is where
it gets a little trickier.
For these, it’s useful to have a larger
model with more detail inside it, like the
castle, which I used in the intro video.
You can get the standard version of it, by
the way, by going to Insert, 3D models, from
Online Sources, then searching for “castle”
here.
If you want to get it with the knight included,
you can use the free download link below.
Every 3D model has this bounding box or viewing
window around it, which is where we’ll be
playing with our camera settings.
So let’s open this up, and I’ll explain
what they do.
Let’s start with camera position.
This allows you to move the camera and the
viewing window, sort of like on a dolly, along
the X-axis, Y-axis, or get closer to the model
on the Z-axis.
And let’s get really close on the Z to fly
into the castle, and now we can examine the
look-at point, which lets you keep your camera
position steady, but pivot to look over to
the side or up and down.
Finally, a bit of a tricky one is the field
of view angle.
This refers to how much of your 3d model is
shown in the viewing window.
The bigger or wider the field of view is,
the more of the model you see and the more
of a fisheye effect you actually have.
So here we go from 30 degrees to 90 with the
same camera position and look at point.
Let’s try that one more time.
So those are your advanced camera settings
– and honestly, you just have to play around
with combinations of all of them, especially
that Z axis for the model position, to get
the view that you’re going for.
And when you want to zoom and pan between
views, you just put the same model on different
slides and put a morph transition in between
to get that smooth zooming and panning effect
between the different views that you’re
creating.
That’s exactly what I did with this castle
here to get all of the different angles – if
you want to make the model go full screen,
you just have to stretch the viewing window
to be the full size of the slide.
This knight, by the way, was not included
in the original castle – I actually put
it into the castle myself in Paint 3D by inserting
both objects in here both objects here, then
aligning them together, saving as a 3D object,
and inserting into PowerPoint.
If you want to get this combined model as
a starter, just use the free download link
below.
Great, well that pretty much covers it – definitely
play around with these settings if you can,
and you’ll unlock a whole new way of looking
at your 3D models.
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keep it spicy till the next one!
