Stop the camera from clipping through objects?

[Ascended Cat]

Any way to stop the camera from clipping through objects when its very close to them? Or at least reduce the distance when it starts to clip?

[Zappy]

Originally posted by RODRagO:

Any way to stop the camera from clipping through objects when its very close to them? -

Not really.

Originally posted by RODRagO:

- Or at least reduce the distance when it starts to clip?

If you show the camera in the Element Viewer, you can change its "nearz" value to set this "clipping plane". It defaults to 3.

However, note that there are some issues with the screen manipulator displays (e.g. invisible arrows), as well as maybe also depth-sorting when rendering the 3D scene, when setting it lower than 3, especially if set to 0 itself.


Alternatively, you may be able to move the model a bit away from the camera, then scale up the model a bit to compensate for it shrinking in perspective.