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gtidhar
08-22-2003, 01:01 PM
Hey all.
I seem to have a problem with using the background reference image.
I'm using 3 different images for the top, left and front viewports and I wish to place my box so it'll fir the three of them. For that I have placed the box in the top viewport according to the reference and in the other two viewports I unlock the zoom/pan so I can pan the background instead of moving the box. The thing is that when I relock the viewport, the backgroud image seem to jump to a different place.
Do you have any idea what shuold I do to fit a box to the 3 backgrounds?
mridgers
08-22-2003, 01:19 PM
I've had similar problems. You'd be better off mapping your bitmaps onto three planes rather than using background images. May take a little getting used to, but it the long run it'll save you a lot of hair pulling...

-Martin.
fabriciomicheli
08-22-2003, 03:24 PM
Yep.
Martin's idea is better when you work with the three axis.
Remember to adapt correctly the images to the planes, so it matches height and width, so the images keep proportional.

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gtidhar
08-22-2003, 06:32 PM
Thanks for a very nice idea!!

thumbsup:

So do I just map my images onto 3 planes and size them as I need?
I notice that the image is distorted as I rotate in a 3D viewport. Is there anything I can do to prevent that?
markdc
08-22-2003, 08:21 PM
Originally posted by gtidhar
Thanks for a very nice idea!!

thumbsup:

So do I just map my images onto 3 planes and size them as I need?
I notice that the image is distorted as I rotate in a 3D viewport. Is there anything I can do to prevent that?

Blur has a script to do this. Check scriptspot.com
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