setting up planes for ref pics? help please

[mouj]

Howdy !

you might want to check this:
http://mr2k.3dvf.com/tutorials/max/divers/gabarit.htm

sorry it's french, but i think it's pretty much understandable (if not use Google's translation feature).

I would guess that you bitmap appears distorted because of the size and uv map you're applying: you say you're going for random sized planes, i'd say better use square values (say, 100x100), and also keep in mind that the size of your planes will somehow define the size of your model...
So if you apply uv map (planar) to a square plane, then apply your maps on it, it should already look a little better, but still might appear squeezed, and that'd be because the maps you're using are not square themselves.
Open them up in Ps, crop them down so that both face/side are square maps and if you can, make them "fit", so that you could overlay them and they'd have the same proportions.

Then you're all set, you still might need to apply Unwrap to the planes if the maps need to be placed/moved somehow.

As for how you place them, well it's up to you, you could have them meet at one end, and model in the middle, or as you say intersect by their middle, and anyway still model in the middle...

hope this helps !

mouj

[innervision961]

wow thanks man, that helps a lot!
I appreciate it! :buttrock:

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