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    Shortcuts for moving camera

    Klemi Nagy(kleminagy)
    posted to: Cameras and Rendering

    Hi! :) I'm new on this site, and I've got some issue in blender while editing my camera. When I go to in the selected 'Camera view' and hit the shortcuts to edit it (G or R), nothing happens so I can't move my camera while I'm in 'Camera view'. I can only edit it with the gizmos (so the camera isn't locked), but I should exit the 'Camera view' first in order to do that. I can't find out what might be the reason for that. I'm using Blender 4.3.2. (I'm usually having issue with shortcuts not working exactly the same way as in the video). I also tried to change the keymap to make my shortcuts work, but haven't succeed with that either. What might be the issue here? Thank you for your answer in advance:)

     

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    • Martin Bergwerf replied

      Hi Nagy Klementina (not sure how to adress you, sorry) kleminagy ,

      My guess is, that that's because you have set your Shortcuts to Active Tool:

      Active Tool.png


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    • Omar Domenech replied

      It might be as simple as you not having your camera selected or as your active object. Also don't worry too much, because no one moves their camera like that. What you usually do is to lock the camera to the view:

      k-Camera-To-View.png

      And also just in case, here's the link to this course but more updated to latest Blender versions:

      https://cgcookie.mavenseed.com/courses/blender-basics-an-introduction-to-blender-3d-4-5-lts

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    • Omar Domenech replied

      Also is a good idea not to change anything in the settings when you're starting to learn, it'll make it harder to follow along tutorials if you customize something and then you don't remember the default behavior. 

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    • Dwayne Savage(dillenbata3) replied

      It's just like Martin points out. the Active Tools setting makes the tool activate when you press G, R, or S instead of going directly into Grab/move, Rotate, or Scale. 

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    • Klemi Nagy(kleminagy) replied
      Thank you for all the helpful answers, I set back my shortcuts to 'Immediate' and I'm glad that it works now perfectly!
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