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so you would actually need a function to somehow adjust scale of the background images to the used images, maybe by using feature points, a hand drawn vector or something? I don't know why, but I get a feeling that almost all blender users have never used any other mainstream 3d software... what I'...

My proposal would effectively let you draw your frames from within Blender and be rendered as part of the 3d scene, allowing much greater flexibility in compositing 2d and 3d elements. [/quote] you can draw things in blender....I don't see anything not-do-able in a stick figure fight scene. u can u...

I don't believe that BMP and GIF are supported formats (and yeah, I'm too lazy to go check for sure). You could run a batch converter (like ImageMagick or such) and convert your files to PNG (or JPEG) format. yes, gif and bmp is not supported...I know cuz I tried importing gif reference image as pl...

Like maybe the Import Images As Planes add-on? yes, except it opens a small window when run where u select four images for the front, side, top and back viewports....and when u click "okay", it automatically creates four new planes in the correct place/angle with the correct picture assigned as tex...

zedeneye1 wrote:

stiv wrote:Use Planes and put an image texture on them.

thats what I do, but a small addon would be good.

no, great!

stiv wrote:Use Planes and put an image texture on them.

thats what I do, but a small addon would be good.

Its very hard to accurately get reference images into blender. I'm unable to do it. using background images, the scale is different in different viewports.... So my request to the developers is to please develop a fool proof method where reference images are displayed in the viewports with 100% accu...