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boomji

06-17-2002, 07:39 PM

hey dudes,
1) first of all why does maya come to a stand still when displaying image planes...i then have to turn on fast interaction which defeats the entire pourpouse of having a refrence image.
2)when i put the texture option on inthe image plane(which i want from the hypershade...say for example leather)...the image plane shows nothing in the view port. only renders it...so whats the work around to this ???
thanks of course
b

svenip

06-17-2002, 07:57 PM

to the first question : this doesn't happen to me :hmm: maybe a graphic card issue ??

to the second : i'm suprised too that it's not displayed. this is what the maya help says :

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Texture
The texture the image plane uses when Type is Texture. A texture assigned to an image plane does not display in the views.
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so :D . one way around may be to just render a nurbsplane with the texture applied. or just put this plane in the background and constrain it to the camera.

boomji

06-18-2002, 06:55 PM

thanks dude,
since i'm from max background i'm very pampered(ready made chamfer box and stuff...haahah)...well now i'm learning to get back to basics with maya.
i gues i'll post a few stupid/nit picking questions for 2 months or so till i get be comfortable with the big hole that is maya...the only other hole that keeps my interest ;)..ahhahahhah.
ok,ok i'm cracking my self up...i got a raise today :)
thanks by the way(danke)
b

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