[Feature Request] Background image per ortho view

kminder · Post by **kminder** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:43 pm

I would really love to be able to establish background/reference images per ortho view. Ideally one for each top, bottom, front, back, left side and right side.

I do realize that you can "sort of" do this by creating a window for each ortho view and assigning the appropriate background image to each. Things get confusing however if you switch a given window into another view.

So basically I'm asking to be able to associate the background image to the view rather than a window.

While I'm at it I might as well plead for the ability to specifiy a rotation for the background images in addition to translation and scale. Just a nice to have.

What does everyone else think?

nemyax · Post by **nemyax** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:24 pm

You can position 3 textured planes at right angles to each other as a workaround.

kminder · Post by **kminder** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:43 pm

As I understand it, that doesn't work in edit mode for 2.37a. Does it work in CVS yet? Thanks for the suggestion though.

nemyax · Post by **nemyax** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:39 pm

What exactly doesn't work? It's not the image planes that you're putting into edit mode, it's the mesh you're modelling. Turn on textured display and set the mesh draw type to wireframe.

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:14 am

Although the texture trick is a workable one, the backimage per view should be easy to implement and prove to be very handy.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 2:26 pm

The textured planes will fail if you need to change the drawmode while working (e.g. to enable wireframe for a moment). Sure, there are workarounds but they are lacking. The background-per-view would really be appreciated.

lguillaume · Post by **lguillaume** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:23 pm

KDR_11k wrote:The textured planes will fail if you need to change the drawmode while working (e.g. to enable wireframe for a moment). Sure, there are workarounds but they are lacking. The background-per-view would really be appreciated.

You can force all object to be wire in solid mode:
Select the object, hit F7 and in the draw panel you have wire option, click on it and if you are in solid/shaded/textured mode, the mesh keep the wire mode.

pildanovak · Post by **pildanovak** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:54 pm

I would also make this request a litter bigger: I request also background pictures per camera, the reason is modelling from photographs...

kakdila · Post by **kakdila** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 10:26 am

hello,
i ask the same think a long time ago:
http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=

but i it don't look to interest the devellopers ?

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sorry for my bad english