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Noomski
03-09-2008, 02:02 PM
Hi I've been following a tutorial On Boujou camera tracking and I've reached the point where I need to load my footage into the backgound. However when I add it through the render - environment menu and the select the camera view and then select show back ground nothing appears.

I am trying to load an image sequence as my footage and there is a checkbox for sequence but whether I check it or not, nothing I try works.

The vieo tutorial I've been following is here: http://blip.tv/file/233779 and I'm getting stuck with what he does at 10.27s in the video where he begins to add the footage as the background.

What am I doing wrong?
scrimski
03-09-2008, 02:04 PM
Use the viewport background, not the environment&effects background.
Noomski
03-09-2008, 02:20 PM
Hi Scrimski,

Once again you're here to save the day :)

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2759/mouseoj4.jpg




Um.... ok i'm a bit lost - where do I go to use the viewport background? and how come it seems to work when the guy in the video does it - I'm confused :(
Gamato
03-14-2008, 11:25 AM
I never knew how to do this. Now that the tutorial showed me how, this opens up a whole new world of work for me :thumbsup:




Noomski:

To enable environment background to be viewed go to :

Views>Viewport Background and check the 'use environment background' form field. :D
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