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Free Blender Add-On For Controlling the Camera Like You Would a Drone

It's fun, it's fast, and it makes for realistic camera movements.

Check out DroneCam, a neat plug-in for Blender created by 3D Artist and Add-on Developer globglob that lets you control the camera like you would a real-life drone using an Xbox 360 gamepad as input.

Compatible exclusively with Windows versions of Blender, DroneCam enables you to add a drone to a scene, click record, fly around, and render the final footage that closely mimics IRL drone videos. According to the creator, the plug-in is a fork of Erindale's XinputReader – which manages all gamepad inputs – and relies on a physics simulation made in Geometry Nodes to handle the flying of the drone that the camera is attached to.

Features:

  • Right-Click Start/Stop to stop the recording.
  • Play the timeline from the first frame to see the results.
  • You can change physics parameters on the Drone object Geometry Nodes modifier.
  • You can manually rotate the camera on the X-axis to control the tilt aggressiveness.

Controls:

  • Left Joystick Y -> Throttle
  • Left Joystick X -> Yaw
  • Right Joystick Y -> Pitch
  • Right Joystick X -> Roll

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