3dsmax viewport backgrounds

[ToddD]

Laxu you have the right idea with the planes, what you need to do is assign a 50% tranparent material to the frame, this will allow the Background image to show through. Wait to do your real texturing until the modeling has been finished, it will only serve as a distraction at this point.

[LaXu]

Uh, I don't know if you understood me wrong or I understood your post wrong, but what I want is to have the top, left and front viewports like they are in wireframe mode, but with a single plane, with a reference image of a human body mapped on to it. And the plane texture should be seen on the wireframe viewports.

Like the same thing you can do by setting a background image with ALT+B but with the background image being in the same proportion in all viewports (otherwise it's like correct in viewport 1 but the model doesn't appear in the same position in viewport 2, and thus it's not aligned properly with the background image in viewport 2). I hope that made any sense :D

[Joel Hooks]

You were understood. The trick here is to have the "wireframe" front-top-side views actually be shaded views, but your object should be 50% transparent so you can see the image plane behind the wireframe. It's also handy to make the images something other than white.

[ToddD]

Thanks lowdown, I forgot to mention"shaded", Laxu had me rereading his post more than once!:beer:

[LaXu]

Yeah, I figured it out myself after a while. :) Still, it's kinda stupid that they haven't been able to get such a simple and widely used feature correct. I wonder if it's fixed in 3dsmax5..

[Joel Hooks]

actually in object properties you can set it to "see through" so it still renders correctly.

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