How To...

[masater]

for every 3d window click view->background image, and in a small window that would appear, chose your images. They will be only visible in standard views like Top, Bottom, Left, Right, Front, Back and no visible in perspective views.

[Lesst]

Yeah, but see, that is all good and well if I only wanted one picture for each of the views, that is, the same exact picture for each view.
But what I want is a unique picture for each view. But what Im experiencing is that each view then displays the same picture. And if I change the picture for one view, it changes for each view, if you understand.

[VirgilioVasconcelos]

Hi, Lesst.

Well... actually the way I know to do that is to split your windows in more than one 3D view and assign each one a different background image. Then make each window a different view, like this picture attached.

To split a window, middle-click the border of one and select "split window". To make an image as background, in 3D window, go to the "view" menu in the header and select "background image". A little window will appear and there you´ll select the picture you want. Make this for all 3d windows you have.

I hope i had explained in a clear way... =D

Cheers

Virgilio

[VirgilioVasconcelos]

Well... as I was writing there have been two answers...

I see what you want. But unfortunately Blender doesn´t allow one background for each view on the same window, just one background for each "3D view".

Cheers

[FreakyDude]

If you split up your 3D view (or 2D) in 4 (or 5 or 6 or 8 or whatever,) you can have a background in each and every window, just like in the screenshot, you can set its properties to be on scale and location where you want it to be.

What you cannot do as far as i know is take one screen, have every view(front, rear, left, right, bottom top etc you get the idea) you switch to using the numeric keypad have a different image. If you have one screen, you can set one image to it. but you can split the screen as many times as you like and set different images.

This so called limitation is the same as for instance 3Dmax has it, if you set a background image there, it stays there regardless of your view being left, right, top etc. you can set different images in different windows but if you change the view in it, the image stays the same.


So yes it is very possible.

If you want to use one big screen which uses different images for each orthographic view, you could split the main screen in as many views as you want to use images, set the images and use ctrl uparrow to switch to full screen mode.
Or if you also need the buttonbar, you can make as many new model views as you like with each one having one screen and the background image you intend to use.
You could use ctrl to switch between views.
left/right arrow. So it seems as if all you switch is the screen you use, while you are in fact changing the entire layout, with the only difference in it is the 3Dview.

[fktt]

the way that i use is not splitting the views, its not hard to leave the background image selection box opened you know, as a matter of fact you can make it smaller(and move it to the corner of the window) so it wont get in your way, and then when you need to go to the other viewport(or what ever) you just open it up and change the picture, its not that hard realy... :wise:
plus if you should sudenly want to change the size of the image you can right get on that to!

[OpenDut]

Lesst, I think your problem is you assigned a background image first then you split your view.

Try splitting your view first, then assign background images.

[Lesst]

Amazing, Thanks for all the help. I finally figured it out, with your help of course. I'll be sure to post some of my results as soon as I get the nerv to actually try some tree-D modeling.

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