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Dark-Angel
03-12-2003, 05:00 PM
i set up my referance pics on square planes and they seem to be proportioned after i tweaked them. but to use the ref pics i need to see throw my big ol box, so i went in material editor and made the texture transparent. but when i saw the result my big ol box became transparent but it was darn ugly. is there any way to make transparency little more beautiful, little more subtile?

and what do you guys do when you have referance pics in the back? how do you proceed and all? like me or a diffrent way?
LarsSon
03-12-2003, 05:30 PM
I'm not sure that we are talking about same thing. When i use reference pictures in background, i really use them as viewport background images. Lock the pan and zoom, it works perfectly.

If you are using transparent planes with picture, you should have viewport transparency set to best. You know, R-clik to your window top left and set the transparency quality.
Dark-Angel
03-12-2003, 05:34 PM
omg dont tell me it was such a simple thing :eek: i tough max was made like that lol.
Dark-Angel
03-12-2003, 05:43 PM
thank you alot... but an other prob i get is im trying to freez my panels so i dont keep selecting them but when i do so it turns grey... any way to freez them with out them turning grey?
LarsSon
03-12-2003, 05:51 PM
customize -> customize user interface ->colors

elements: geometry

There's that dropdownlist where you are able to choose freeze and then just change the colour you want. Don't know any other way.

Maybe that was too easy?

Don't forget to save your settings...
LarsSon
03-12-2003, 05:59 PM
ooo how stupid i'm. I knew there's better way too.

When you look at your object properties, there is one checkbox called "show frozen in gray". What does that meen?

Ok. This was really too easy. But it's nice to learn something new everyday.
Dark-Angel
03-12-2003, 06:33 PM
yes it is lol :) now i hope tonigh or tomorow i can start some modeling :) if the model starts out good and stays good i will post it the wip, its gonna be a Dark Elf or aka Drow elf, and its how i see em :buttrock:
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