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Katzenminze
07-07-2007, 10:28 PM
Hi, I recently (today^^) got "building a digital human" by ken brilliant.looks quit promissing so I decided to start following his tutorial on building a human being.
I set up the reference pictures from the book's CD-Rom! one for the front view and one for the side view.
both of them are approx. 1800pixels high an differ only in the width value!
here is my problem:
When I load up the side image everything looks fine but when i load the front image it kinda gets scaled down so it doesnt lign up with the side view image?!
very strange^^ maybe you know how to fix that? Is there a way to scale the image up?

plese help my :) im desperate ;)

look at my screenshot if i didnt explain it well enough!

cheers!
jinjenator
07-07-2007, 11:08 PM
Hi there!

The background image box has a scale size but it does it uniformly - I have always had best results making all pics the same width and height - saves messing about too much :)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/the_jinj/scale.png
Katzenminze
07-07-2007, 11:21 PM
hey man! thanks for your reply :) it worked, i first tried to align them with the size slider but the i just made the images the same size = no probs at all :) thanks again!
jinjenator
07-07-2007, 11:29 PM
hey man! thanks for your reply :) it worked, i first tried to align them with the size slider but the i just made the images the same size = no probs at all :) thanks again!

Excellent :) Post your model when done - looks interesting :)
Katzenminze
07-07-2007, 11:36 PM
i will :) one more question though:
how do i turn the model im working on to transparent? I know it is possible but just cant find the button^^ i want to view it insolid mode but half transparent so that the image below it shows up :)
jinjenator
07-07-2007, 11:41 PM
Z - think that's what you need

:)
Katzenminze
07-07-2007, 11:46 PM
good idea, not what i need thoug, i dont want to get into wireframe mode (which is toggled by the zkey) i want to see all the polygons but want them tobe semi-transparent!
i had this setup once but cant find that stupid button again^^
jinjenator
07-07-2007, 11:58 PM
Is it this?

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y63/the_jinj/this.png
Katzenminze
07-08-2007, 12:06 AM
no :( im afraid it's not

well i'll go to bed now^^ its kinda late i will try to figure it out tomorrow :)
thanks anyways!
if you find something lemme know :)
jinjenator
07-08-2007, 12:12 AM
You sure it's not Z? If the view is set to Solid then it will toggle between wireframe and solid - all the polys will be transparent then.....?
Katzenminze
07-08-2007, 12:03 PM
yeah, im sure, because in wireframe the polygons will be transparent so I cant really see my mesh and if there are any problems with it but in this semi-transparent mode i can see both, the underlaying image and the mesh itself!

:)
chewedon
07-08-2007, 01:35 PM
You can try pressing F7, under the Draw panel, activate "Transp" button.

You'll then need to give your object a material and lower it's alpha slider in the F5 material menus.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v639/Ryu_Kaiser/transparent_view.jpg
Katzenminze
07-08-2007, 07:57 PM
excellent mate :) that was what i was looking for!
im not at home right now but ill check it out when i am back tomorrow :)

cheers!
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