On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasma...@gmail.com> wrote: > were you aware of this? > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.58#Empty_Images_Display: > > notes > - xray option renders on top > - object alpha is used. > - alpha works same as textured quad on a mesh (but also draws in wire view) > - to see alpha lines on top of other objects without alpha draw order > glitches --- user prefs -> system -> clip alpha (set to 0.5 or so) > > I'm not really a fan of existing background images, so adding rotation > is of course useful if you already use it, but think empty objects > work better since there more flexible and don't get lost when joining > windows.
Yes, but I don't use it after having tried it. I found the interface to be much less intuitive than using background settings. I guess it is really just me being lazy and not wanting to switch to something new. I also did not see any real advantages to it, however I did not put 2 and 2 together to see that I could use the xray option (or is that new?). That alone is a good reason to use it. Perhaps background should be dropped and the gui controls for it used to set up the empty for this use? I think it would make it more user friendly and also old users like me would start catching on that there is a new and better way. -- Douglas E Knapp Creative Commons Film Group, Helping people make open source movies with open source software! http://douglas.bespin.org/CommonsFilmGroup/phpBB3/index.php Massage in Gelsenkirchen-Buer: http://douglas.bespin.org/tcm/ztab1.htm Please link to me and trade links with me! Open Source Sci-Fi mmoRPG Game project. http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page http://code.google.com/p/perspectiveproject/ _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers