Camera Fly/Walk Mode - Blender 3

A quick explanation of how you can fly or walk around using game controls in blender and use this to animate your camera through a scene.
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[@kleyyer]

For those with non-english keyboards where the tilde (Accent Grave) button doesn't work, you would need to go to Preferences -> Keymap. With the filter type "Name" enabled, search "'fly" and change your key-binding.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@BlameAva]

Thank you so much!

[@k0d3k7]

bro what i do i missclicked and deleted the fly option what do i do

[@henrikberntsson7396]

Life saver!

[@khalidandisaiahblox6302]

@@k0d3k7 same i need help

[@jeremythompson1905]

One of the things that completely turned me off to blender was the navigation. I discovered the fly function and it made the software WAY less frustrating for me. I reprogrammed the function to a mouse button for ease of use. I’ll admit I hadn’t realized that was the function of the walk mode so I learned that today. THAT will be useful.

[@leucome]

Do you try alt+middle-click? It can basically teleport the view to any target in the scene. Navigating became easier when I started to use this.

[@Teatheard]

I hated the pan movement at first but now I use that specifically and it works fine

[@ne_kitk_a]

Wow! Thank you for this guide! Its crazy how many features is stuffed in Blender. Crazy potential!

[@animanic128]

Man, you always make insightful videos. God bless you!!🖤

[@KittyTimeAndFriends]

This is exactly what I've been needing for almost ever sense I started learning Blender, thanks for all the help!!

[@a3dadventure79]

thanks so much for this. i used to do this back in blender 2.8, and then i never really pursued the mouse look since Blender 3. i wonder how i ever lived without it!! it really helps when you are mocking up levels, and want to move like you can in the engine by default, and of course don't want to have to transfer every little change to the engine to see how it is. and the gravity, perfecto!!

[@MuhammadElGendys]

I just wanna say, you're amazing! I love you're videos.

[@OviGomy]

That helps a lot for presenting the scene!

[@caencfy4702]

We can also do this for most of animation if you don't know what angle you looking for. Of course, you can smooth it out in graph editor because there are a tons of keyframe. Select All "A" shortcut Alt + O to smooth key. That's how I do most of my animation

[@grabbitt]

yes thats a useful tip :)

[@kurtlindner]

OMG, this needs to be talked about more.

[@vishwesh_nh]

This is really helpful for creating games and stuff

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

Oh this is super cool to know. I literally have Blender open on my other monitor as I'm watching/listening to KZbin videos and I'm super tempted to drop what I'm doing (modeling a low poly character) and whipping up a quick little environment for practice just to try it out :D I won't _quite yet_ (I'm in a good groove, lol), but I'm making a note of this, and I'm gonna try this out asap. Thanks for running through this feature!

[@__masonwilko__]

Absolute legend, thought id have to get an addon for this, cheers!!

[@TheRealLink]

Great, simple tutorial, thank you!

[@Tagirovfx]

Thank you for this guide!)

[@simoncodrington]

Great little video. Actually had no idea you could use gravity in fly through mode. Cheers mate

[@noodleNmls]

you saved my life, i love u bro

[@yezzzsir]

Never used this before. I'll give it a go for blocking out animations. Thanks Grant.

[@PalmHeartMusic]

Thank you. I learned something new 🙂

[@MartKart8]

I like the scene you made looks so much like a level from a game I played, called Luigi's Mansion 3.

[@BlackoutGamingChannel]

That's a brilliant tip!

[@Guyglowbe]

Perfect video for beginners ❤

[@grabbitt]

Thanks

[@jasoulside]

you're a godsend thanks!

[@rawanaleryani7138]

an amazing video thank u :)

[@veazix]

If you change keyframe interpolation to constant it will be a more accurate representation of your movements. It's a bit jarring at 24fps but if you're going for that FPS shooter style it looks neat.

[@WaterShowsProd]

Definitely an overlooked feature. A quick note: A 50mm lens is narrower than a 12mm lens. You said to change it something narrow, but really you were changing it something wide. The lower the focal length the wider the angle of the field of view, as measured from the centre of the image..

[@grabbitt]

Yes that's what I meant 😃👍

[@zapfsaeule2]

Super! Thank you!

[@checkmate8015]

Your Course on Udemy for making characters for games🔥 what a masterpiece re watching it for the third time to make sure it’s drilled in my head

[@grabbitt]

👍😃

[@A_S__N_S]

THANK YOU

[@ShionHatori009]

Thanks !

[@muhammadabbas-nn4ko]

You are always unique and impressive Sir The best tutor from whom one learns the whole which he teaches💕 But I will like to ask if we parent camera to an empty and move that empty along a curve then what will be the difference? Sir And there is request too Sir Please make a video on how to animate a story board in blender to create a short movie Thank you so much!

[@Ridia_rain]

thank uuu!

[@Soulsphere001]

You definitely show you care about your customers by giving them course updates for free. Perhaps I should look into that course, though I don't think it would be difficult to make just by looking at the rooms. Still, I do appreciate your free tutorials and purchasing one of your courses would be one way to thank you. I'll look into them. EDIT: So I bought that and the sculpt character creator course, since that was also on sale. A very, very nice deal.

[@grabbitt]

Thanks👍

[@Soulsphere001]

@@grabbitt You're welcome.

[@jujufagan249]

I got it, its on sale for 55, money well spent

[@simrans8050]

my mind... has been blown 😭😭

[@moje0076]

I learned about this pretty early on in blender, I use it to position my camera.

[@DERlpschauer]

this was insanely helpful. man the standard navigation is horseshit. if you zoom in, the camera starts to zoom slower and slower, until you cant zoom anymore. this is absolutly bollocks if you try to sculpture and modulate for 3d printing. thanks this was very needed.

[@tauzand1000]

Great content as always thanks for sharing your knowledge! I want to really start putting some serious effort into improving my Blender skills. I have all your courses but it's just so hard to start😑😑😑

[@grabbitt]

Just try and do a very small amount each day

[@WEntertainmentOfficialTeam]

So Easy!!! I'm Gonna Make this from my Horror Movie!

[@bUildYT]

Wtfffffff do u guys understand how mind blowing this is????? My mouth was opened the entire time watching this video😮😮😮 wow just wow

[@bUildYT]

hey is there a way to make the "aim cross " in walk and flight mode invincible in normal 3d viewport? ( i like to record my 3d viewport and not rendering everything and there that center cross is anoying...

[@CatDribble]

I don't understand why fly mode isn't like a quick default, every time I come back to blender I have to work this out again, when it's the best way to get around a complex object

[@suanarts6033]

I have created this model along your Udemy tutorial

[@kensummers7757]

EXACTLY what it says on the tin!

[@murdasep]

Hello Grant! I'm glad to see this! I can use this for my architecture projects but I have a question. Is there ant way to not going to walls and objects? or can I open the doors or move objects when I'm in that fly mode at the same time? Thanks Grant!

[@grabbitt]

No it's limited in that sense

[@KingHaggis]

Only downside to the walk mode is you will bump over every little object in your path. I use this a lot for my self made Blender forests and it's awesome but I can only use flymode because walkmode will make me constantly bump on top of grass, plants, trees and bushes. I wish they would add a function to Blender in which you can assign a plane as your walkable surface and clip through every object like fly mode does. Fly mode is nice to emulate the walking feeling but I have to constantly manage my altitude to mimic the feeling of controlling a human body instead of a flying camera. If that makes sense...

[@costaliberta5969]

hiello, thank you for the video! i have a few questions, if you don't mind... (i really hope you know the answers...) 1. in your video, how do you switch the speed from slow to fast? 2. is it possible to adjust the speed to your liking? 3. is it possible to smooth out the transition? (it's very noticeable) 4. is it possible to use this flyby mode on an animated, moving object? again, great vid, exactly what i was dreaming of... (aclaim's forsaken controls)

[@assumzaek]

This is great really nice tutorial! Now if you were to refine the animation and add a bit of a walking shake to this camera how would you go about it?

[@grabbitt]

Look up curves in the graph editor

[@Ivle711]

I didn't know Blender could do this! this is awesome! thank you Grant. Also, is there a way to change gravitaion from gound height? like perhaps somone with 150 cm height vision and 180 is different. is there a way to set that?

[@grabbitt]

Not sure check preferences

[@Ivle711]

@@grabbitt alright, thanks!

[@aztechnology.blender]

Amzaing !

[@Kio_Kurashi]

Personally I'd use the flymode to find points to tween between rather than use my janky move speed.

[@djkorou]

also thnx

[@17denby]

Thanks this will be pretty helpful also short video unlike others that are 17 minutes long also do you know how to get rid of grid lines in layout mode?

[@grabbitt]

The overlays option

[@17denby]

@@grabbitt ok thanks👍

[@aiphigeneia]

Hello Grant! i have a question, when i have the autokeying and try to record the movement in walk navigation, as you are showing on the video, it is extremely laggy and i cant record. is it due to my heavy scene which is not lowpoly in general? thank you in advance you re the best teacher! 😻

[@grabbitt]

Perhaps go into solid mode for faster viewport rendering

[@shazam1334]

hows ur running so smooth!? mine is just a simple model (on cycles) and takes ages to completely render something simple

[@dermotwalshe8577]

is there a way to to the same fly through by setting keyframes and camera positions manually and letting the program do the in-betweens ( add or subtract frames to fine-tune the speed ) ?

[@grabbitt]

i believe so in the graph editor

[@RedArtMedia1]

How do you setup camera position and assign it to 1?

[@grabbitt]

Assign it to 1?

[@osmmanipadmehum]

Hi do you know if there are settings for blender to show the walk mode or fly mode to force it to be in realtime with no studdering? I have a pretty good card but want to be able to walk in there like a minimal 90s 3d game

[@grabbitt]

Nothing I. Particular just changing the eevee settings

[@hoolcoolt]

On bottom of screen the keys and explanations of what they do are visible, A - [left] D- [right] etc how turn it on, blender - this is addon?

[@tuyanaz1]

hello thank you for the tutorial! how long did it take to render this?

[@grabbitt]

A few seconds in eèvee

[@bUildYT]

hey is there a way to make the "aim cross " in walk and flight mode invincible in normal 3d viewport? ( i like to record my 3d viewport and not rendering everything and there that center cross is anoying...

[@grabbitt]

Perhaps in overlays

[@FlyingColors555]

Shift tilda means ? & what key is he use for fly mode ?

[@terryperehinec]

Great video! Can you do a tutorial on creating a modular environment something like this? That would be amazing!

[@grabbitt]

That's in the course

[@terryperehinec]

@@grabbitt thanks Grant!

[@therethinkables]

when ever i do fly mode when recording or in camera mode, it keeps saying "cannot navigate objects with constraints" and i dont know what it means

[@grabbitt]

Has you camera got a constraint on it like fixed to an empty

[@therethinkables]

wdym by " fixed to an empty"

[@Lardxyd]

what is a tilda key?

[@sundin2840]

Did you think of using 3DConnexion's space mice for smoother navigation?

[@grabbitt]

Yes it can be good once you get used to it

[@user-fy9ct6he3x]

Hello! Is it possible to toggle walls collision? Because it would be very nice to bump into walls, instead of being a ghost who can run through walls an fall into void.

[@grabbitt]

i dont think so

[@despoticwolf]

you're the best. ..... dragons?

[@Number704]

Hmmm... I wonder why mine has a chest bursting open and a well in the middle of the rooms.

[@EL_N0IR_2201]

my camera just falls to the ground when i press either G or Tab why?

[@jasonwilliams8730]

👍

[@hackerfrommumbai741]

I have mac what can I do?

[@brandonbaldini6865]

I press TAB for gravity and i'm right up against the floor like a bug, could that be because I scaled the area to a massive size?

[@grabbitt]

Yes

[@deepaknayal5357]

Do you have any paid course of blender?

[@grabbitt]

Yes check my website. Gabbitt.co.uk 🙂👍

[@n3onkn1ght]

The problem with fly mode is that all the controls are on the far left of the keyboard, but once you come out of it you have to go all the way across to hit keypad period and recenter your view to whatever you're looking at now. Is there a way to fix that besides rebinding the "Center Selected" key?

[@grabbitt]

Yes in the preferences I believe

[@n3onkn1ght]

​@@grabbitt Actually I just found out about Shift+B (Zoom Region). It seems to do the trick and it's in easy reach of the fly mode shortcut keys.

[@grabbitt]

@@n3onkn1ght nice. I didn't know about that one

[@anti-wisdomanimated3563]

Strangely, when I enter Fly navigation mode in Blender 3.2.1 now, it uses a strange cinematic mode, simulating a weird friction or lag whenever I move the mouse to look around the scene. I noticed that's not the case in this video, how did you manage to turn this off?

[@grabbitt]

i'm not sure what's happening there

[@thememesterr]

i have pressed every button on my keyboard and it doesnt work?

[@WoodenYup]

do you know how you can change how high you can jump?

[@grabbitt]

I don't know that one

[@pulkitc329]

Can this navigation be used with VR inspection Mode??

[@grabbitt]

good question. no idea

[@krithikbagrecha4679]

Can this be done if we import a sketchup file into Blender

[@grabbitt]

Yes

[@bnmporvida6138]

be nice to use controller for flymode

[@Losjo4093]

§ is this the key?

[@AllaSweetGames]

Hi! How do I increase moving speed? Where are settings?

[@grabbitt]

I'm not sure you can

[@cosmicarc7978]

Hello I wanted to ask how could I make walk mode smaller?

[@grabbitt]

Smaller?

[@estudo13videos]

preferences>navigation>fly/walk>gravity>view height

[@fractionalist]

Q: Grant, is it possible, please, to replace the clumsy keyboard control with another system, say eg mouse buttons or a game controller...

[@grabbitt]

I don't know

[@fractionalist]

@@grabbitt I have the code to do that, however, I have one ERROR in line 14, can you help, here's the first part of the code where the error is: import bpy import time import math import threading from .inputs import get_gamepad LINE 14 ERROR HERE events = []; _t = None; def worker(): global events while True : events.append(get_gamepad()) class GamepadControl(bpy.types.Operator): """Gamepad Control""" bl_idname = "view3d.gamepad_control" bl_label = "Gamepad_control" bl_space_type = "View_3D" bl_region_type = "UI" bl_category = "Gamepad_control"

[@grabbitt]

@@fractionalist it's not an area I know about

[@199rajesh]

what is the "till the"

[@grabbitt]

Tilda

[@GeorgeKarala]

i juse walk navigation for modeling never though to make video by walk navigtion

[@djkorou]

super early

[@vishwesh_nh]

2:05 1 for camera??

[@grabbitt]

Must have meant to say 0

[@rorobalo]

shift wat?

[@grabbitt]

Tilda

[@OM33WRLD]

What the hell is shift tilda

[@Funtime_foxy6]

Press shift and the button ubove tab

[@johnwest6690]

there is literally no tilda key, it's called hash tag... and it does nothing

[@grabbitt]

It's next to the 1 on most keyboards

[@DammyReginald]

This explanation is not understandable at all😢

[@Teatheard]

You must be deaf.

[@sintemoraltema6126]

No shortcut would work... go to -View-Cameras-Active Camera