Maya - camera rotates around itself

2dfxman

Yes, instead of rotation around object it rotates around itself which results in very tiresome navigation.
I think I pressed something wrong.
How can I make it to rotate around my mesh?
I'm talking about perspective camera.

MoP

Does it still do this even after hitting Frame Selection (F)?
What if you hide all objects and do Frame All (A)?

2dfxman

Yeah, I did that, still it rotates around itself.

THNKR

Did you inadvertently turn on the .usePivotAsLocalSpace attribute on the camera shape node perhaps?

PredatorGSR

Not really a fix, but I've always worked around this issue by just creating a new perspective camera and using that instead. Not sure what causes it, but I've had similar issues when opening up scenes that have a different up axis and didn't know how to reset the camera.

elte

try resetting the tool, via the panel bar *the small menu on top of your viewport and find something related to camera like tumble, dolly, pan and press the reset tool in the tool setting editor. (one of the icon on the top right 3 icons)

greuh

in the viewport menu (just above the viewport icons) View/Look at selection

/problem solved

throttlekitty

Resetting transforms on the camera can also cure some forms of wonkyness.

zivswong

I have looked for answers everywhere. And greuh, you are the winner! Thanks!