Size of reference image (background). How to?

#1

Hi, people.

I’m a beginner in 3ds max. Made some tutorials that were with the software, just to learn about the basic features of it.
And now I’m starting to make my own character with the help of the Joan of Arc tutorial. Started with the head, but than I noticed that the polis that I’ve made in the front view of the image don’t align at all with the side view of the background image I’ve put on.
And there is more. When I hit render, to see that little progress I’ve made the polis are just to big, so I see only the eye.
Is there a trick, a way to resize the model? How can I align the images, so that when I do th e front modeling I’ll see ‘aproximately’ the eye in the side view on the right hight?
Thanks for any help provided…

jinraichi

P.S. It’s a long way to make a desent mesh. :wise:

#2

  1. The Setup: In Front view create two planes. Texture them with front blueprint and side blueprint. Make them the right height and then rotate the side blueprint one 90 degrees.

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  3. I don’t understand

  4. Use scale tool to resize. Months later we can speak about reset transform when you
    are having wrong results animating… :slight_smile:

#3

First of, thanks for the answers Bao. This is all I needed. Just now I’ve made the two pictures perspective mode (I just needed that someone points me in the right direction :thumbsup: Thanks.) I just don’t know one other thing. What must I klik so that the images are shown in the front and in the left view. (for now there are only hollow planes).

What I ment in the seccond point is that when I klik on the teapot (the quick render button/production - in the upper right corner), what I’ve done until now (the poligons) is shown too big (for example i’ve made a shape of an eye and than of the mouth, but in the render window i see only the eye, eighter the window is to small or i’m doing the model to big. I hope i’ll solve this problem when I’m gonna scale the pictures and future model. :)).

Thanks again Bao.

jinraichi

P.S. Tomorrow I’ll continue with the work.

#4

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