How to match perspective to a photo
Can you provide more detail, maybe a screenshot, or a screencast ?
In general I don't think this is easy to do in Fusion 360.
In order to get a good photo match you need to be able to determine at least the focal length an image was taken with and the location/orientation of the camera in the scene. There is really no way to precisely define a camera orientation in Fusion 360 as the viewport IS the camera.
If the image has geometry with known dimensions, you can try to model that geometry in Fusion 360 and guesstimate the focal length and orientation by manually adjusting those until the modeled geometry somewhat closely matches the geometry in the image.
One can do this in Fusion Render but it requires some manual work since Fusion internal render is not made for this type of work.
1. rebuild a basic geometry of what you see in the photo
2. position camera and play with lens value till what you see in the rendering matches the photo (you an use the photo as a backdrop)
3. add lights similar to what you see in the photo (HDRI + flat surfaces emitting light)
4. render your objects with transparent background
5. photoshop the drop shadow in
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@joncolinleonard wrote:
I get that "this isn't what Fusion was designed to do" argument,
I don't recall making that argument, so who are you arguing with ?
@joncolinleonard wrote:
... but this is not because users don't want or need it ..
Hmm ... I have over 13000 posts over the last 6 years so I spend a lot of time on this forum. This is only the second time I recall for this to come up. If you feel so strongly about it, post it in the idea station.
@joncolinleonard wrote:
.., rather because it would cannibalize revenue from other applications that Autodesk produces, such as 3DS and Maya. ..
That is a bit of long shot!. Fusion 360 aims clearly at the mechanical design and mechanical engineering market. At least that's what I've been told by Fusion 360 product management. I've worked professionally in that realm for long enough to know that this feature plays no role in that market.
Maya and 3DSmax are Sub-D modelers thus use a completely different non-CAD 3D modeling paradigm. 3DSmax is the de-facto standard for Arcviz and and this is clearly a feature that people expect in that area.
Fusion 360 has a pretty powerful C++ and Python API and a number of users have contributed very powerful plugins. If you hv the skills and desire, the stage is yours.
@colbycramden wrote:
I expect this to be dealt with properly. Our company's designs need to be seen in a variety of environments, up to and including (most importantly) nestled realistically into photos of the clients' own environments, facades, rooms, spaces etc.
Good luck with that 😉
Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have better camera and environmental controls in Fusion 360. I just don't see that happening any time soon. I've asked for some seemingly simple tool enhancements in the T-Spline environment similar to Blender functionality 4 years ago.
The workflow from Fusion 360 to Blender and other external tools can also be pretty fraught with problems. You'll have to export to .stl or .obj and both of those create triangulated meshes.
Blender is very powerful and Blenders render engine is also a step or two up. But it also really only makes sense for a final product shot. If you change the prociuct you'll have to re-export, re-apply textures and materials.
If money is tight, this is probably an option, but Keyshot has a plugin for Fusion 360 and is very widely used in connection with many CAD tools and has many options. Not sure it has a camera perspective matching functions.
