Trouble with Camera Viewport

[dance]

Anyone know how to make the Camera viewport render box wider?

[Leo]

Yep.
At the upper side of your viewport is a little symbol that looks like a camera.
Under that go to "Properties" and then change the aspect ratio to something that more resembles that of your screen.
Alternatively and in my opinion the better option, you could just switch over to the User Viewport which is just like a camera without those Letterboxes.

Hope that helps.

[dance]

lol that makes sense, damn im forgetting the basics...i must have changed it by mistake...Thank You!

[tyler zambori]

How do I change the aspect ratio? That is one complicated
property page....

[Leo]

How do I change the aspect ratio? That is one complicated
property page....

Are you condascending to someone who simply asked a genuine question?
Please refrain from such behavior.

[tyler zambori]

How do I change the aspect ratio? That is one complicated
property page....

Are you condascending to someone who simply asked a genuine question?
Please refrain from such behavior.

You know. maybe I should stick to the beginner's section on xsi base, where
beginners are tolerated. It was an honest question.

[Leo]

How do I change the aspect ratio? That is one complicated
property page....

Are you condascending to someone who simply asked a genuine question?
Please refrain from such behavior.

You know. maybe I should stick to the beginner's section on xsi base, where
beginners are tolerated. It was an honest question.

Don't worry beginners are tolerated here. Actually I was trying to protect one because I thought you were making fun of dance.
I attached a screen that shows you were to change the aspectratio.

[tyler zambori]

Wow thank you Leo. I will go try that. It was just coincidence that dance asked
about it at the same time I noticed it.

[dance]

Leo, i know this is trivial but is there a way to have the default layout view port open with the user instead of the camera? Was thinking i could change something in the default.xsily file but cant find anything.

[Diurno]

there's no need to edit any configuration file; just go in Preferences - Output Format, choose your favorite format and the Apply.

The next time you start Softimage, it remember this configuration ^^

[Hirazi Blue]

@dance - I don't think that's all that trivial.
The only way I can think of now, is using a custom event
to set the viewport to "User" whenever a new scene is created...
But if there's an easier way, which I strongly suspect, I would be glad to hear it!!!
The line of code you would need:

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Desktop.ActiveLayout.Views("vm").SetAttributeValue("activecamera:b", "User");

(which is Jscript obviously.
Add "Application." to the front
and delete the semi-colon at the end to make it Python )
embedded in an event like the one attached to this post...

BTW: I chose an event based on the creation of a new scene, which only worked with "OnEndNewScene". I wouldn't recommend changing the event to "on startup" or "on load"...

You drop the script into "C:\Users\somename\Autodesk\Softimage_7.5\Application\Plugins\"