Background Image Blender 2 81
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Background image blender 2 81. This is a bit different than the 2 79 method so this tutorial will get you up to speed on the new system and maybe teach you a few tricks along the way. In the outliner panel click on the camera object to select it. All3dp is an editorially independent publication. You can do this in blender 2 81 by pressing shift a then going to image reference.
Part 1 render a background image using blender 2 8. To find the settings for the background or reference image select the image and click the red picture icon in the panel on the right side of the screen. Blender 2 90 manual. In this video we go over how to use background images in blender 2 8 as well as some of the settings we have available to us that are different than 2 79 sup.
The added image will be directly facing the viewport camera at the time of adding it so align your viewport to the correct orientation you want the image to first. Select the checkbox for background images then click on the add image button. Background and reference image settings. Replace background images with image empties in 2 8x and it has been retired due to inherent limitations.
In all honesty it doesn t matter whether you choose reference or background. Use this feature to achieve more consistent playback speed. Alternatively with the background image selected press n to pull up the transform tab which shows the object s location rotation and scale. Channel 1 is the current frame s image from the strip in channel 1 only channel 1 is at the bottom of the stack.
Well now with blender 2 8 it looks like i may have to get used to the maya way of doing things again. Don t get me wrong i get why the blender developers have made this change. The code was old and it didn t work in all windows but i m sad to see the old way of adding background images go away. Information was stored as user interface data as such if you opened a file without the load ui option checked they would.
Note that the background source should be set to image by default. In the properties panel click on the camera properties to select it. Editorial content on principle can not be bought or influenced.