About Cameras

A camera is a 3D actor that represents a user's viewpoint in a virtual environment.

Type of Camera	Description
Camera	3D actor that represents a user's viewpoint in a virtual environment. A simple camera does not include any behavior. Important: The camera lens is located at the other end of its direction vector X. When you apply a transformation to the camera (translation or rotation), you must pay attention to the camera orientation.
Orbital Camera	Camera that includes the orbital navigation behavior. The camera rotates around a targeted object, or around the experience's origin (0, 0, 0). For example, you can use the orbital navigation for product demonstrations.
Free Navigation Camera	Camera that includes the free navigation behavior. The camera navigates in an environment, without any constraints.
First-Person Camera	Camera that includes the first-person navigation behavior. The camera explores an environment from a first-person view. The navigation is constrained to the floor.
Third-Person Camera	Camera that includes the third-person navigation behavior. A third-person camera follows an actor from behind.
Look Around Camera	Camera that includes the look around navigation behavior. You can explore the experience by looking around the camera's position.

When you apply the tone mapping and glow effect to a camera created in an environment, you may experience visual differences. The tone mapping and glow effect can differ between the camera and the environment, and the camera may override the environment's configuration.

To match the environment's configuration, the camera's tone mapping and glow effect are updated in the following cases:

• When you create a camera in any environment (planetary or ambience).
• When you click Update Camera from Environment from the context menu of the Properties panel.

The update only impacts the following properties: Glow Intensity, Black, White, Saturation, and Gamma. To view their effects, you must apply Enable Glow or Enable Tone Mapping (or both) to the camera. For more information about the properties of a camera, see Cameras Properties.