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Talking_Pie

01-10-2004, 06:23 AM

hi i have modeled a few faces with reference photos in my front viewport and side viewport along with perspective to help me. my question is this, i know that when you look at your model in the front viewport it looks a bit squashed out, should i actually use the front viewport as a means of reference for modeling, or is the viewport squeuing what i see and thus not presenting me with a true image as oppose to like a perspective viewport.

Talking_Pie

01-11-2004, 08:26 AM

no one has an idea out there?

zaidoigres

01-11-2004, 09:31 AM

Well, i've heard somewhere that you can take a reference picture with a camera with a lot of zoom and that'll be almost the same that you'd see in the front viewport for example.
I don't know, I (and many people) always do my models in top - front - side views and check the perspective view to see if everything is going well.

BazC

01-11-2004, 10:17 AM

Modelling in only orthographic view (front/side views) can create a distorted model but there's no reason not to use them just keep checking your model in perspective view! Oh and make sure your perspective camera is set to a sensible focal length, around 50 - 55mm is around the focal length of the human eye. - Baz

Talking_Pie

01-11-2004, 10:50 AM

wow neat, i didn't know that, thanks a lot ill definitly consider that while im retworking some models

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