I’ve been having trouble with using a backdrop image. I’ve loaded it and set it’s settings to exactly what I want, but as soon as I change from a single view to a quad view the backdrop will either lose all settings or sometimes just completely dissapear. Why is this happening? It’s almost as if each view is being treated as a completely seperate view. Also, sometimes when I’m in a perspective view the 0 key on the numeric pad will not change back to a quad view. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix or a workaround?
backdrop bug!
Sbowling
#2
Ok, it definitely looks like the views are being treated as completely different viewports. If I set my backdrop properties in the quad view and then set them in each view when maximized it seems to work.
WPTV
#3
I have the problem, and it appears that the color red doesn’t show up, so all reference images are blue/greenish
JacquesD
#4
That may come from your graphic driver cause this full red pic shows right as it should with me:
The ripper.
WPTV
#5
If it’s of any use I’m on a dual 2gig G5. I’m not sure off of the top of my head the video card in there, but i’m going to take a look on my powerbook to see if does it there too. For some reason I just thought of that.
Griffon
#6
We did find an issue with the red and blue bits being swapped for non-tga images on the mac. It will be fixed.
Sbowling
#7
What about the backdrop problem and the using 0 (num zero) to change back from full screen perspective view? I haven’t had many problems with modo, but these are big time wasters. When I get stuck in a full screen perspective view I have to change back to quad view using the Mod_quad preset and I lose all me settings for the view and backdrop and have to set them all again.
:bounce:
Sbowling
#8
Also just noticed that switching between quad and full screen perspective view doesn’t retain model rotation, etc. they are definitely acting like two complete different views. Is it possible that I’ve screwed up my configs somehow, or is this a known issue? I don’t remember this happening before, but it has been a while since I’ve used modo.
seasterling
#9
I get the 0 key problem sometimes as well. After setting up your backdrops, save the layout in quad view, then if you need to get back you can just reload the layout.
@Luxology
It would be nice if configs and layouts were saved as seperate files so that they are easily moved or stored with a project.
Quite often modo will crash when I click on the menu bar to load a layout. The crash brings down the dock in OSX as well. I’ve never seen an app crash and affect something else in OSX before, a little unnerving.
Renderman_XSI
#10
Its a known issue, dont know when its going to be fix. Also try putting a backdrop image in the perspective view(on XY workplane) and than hit 1 or 2 on the number pad, than jump back to perspective. You find out Modo does something unintuitive, when it reorient your backdrop image to the last viewport view.
To workaround this i usually just switch to the front viewport, before jumping back to perspective view. Or create a image plane and map the image on it.
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