You missed the fact that Luc-Eric has become a forum troll! ;) DAN
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com>wrote: > What? Where? I don't see it. The only thing I could find was the setting > for "fixed to camera" (the point of which I don't get because the moment > the camera moves the image plane moves out of camera), that also reveals > parameters for X,Y,Z placement, but what is the required setting to have > the image plane cut through visible geometry or even have it entirely in > front of it? It still seems to be "behind" all scene geometry no matter > what I dial in for the Z parameter, or am I having display driver issues? > > Copy/paste from the help files: > > Attached to Camera > Displays the image in the background of the camera no matter how the > camera is panned, zoomed, etc. This option is useful for matching animation > with footage of live action. This is the default for images in perspective > views like Camera and User. > If you need to pan, zoom, or frame while keeping the registration between > the rotoscoped image and objects in the scene, activate Pixel Zoom mode > (the magnifying glass on the viewport's toolbar). > Note that Pixel Zoom does not work with other camera navigation, including > orbiting and dollying. > > Fixed > Displays the image at a fixed location in scene coordinates. This option > is useful for modeling from reference images. This is the default for > images in orthographic views like Front, Right, and Top. > > Did I miss something? > > > > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I had the same problem and ended up copy/pasting image paths manually >>> into >>> the rotoscope options of each camera. >>> The thing is that Softimage doesn't have an equivalent feature to Maya's >>> image planes. Image planes have a specifiable depth from the camera, >>> while >>> Soft's roto feature always consideres the image to be "in the back", >>> behind >>> anything else. If you need proper image planes you will need to attach >>> grids >>> to cameras manually and controll their distance with a custom param from >>> the >>> camera, or fully manually. >>> >> >> Buzzzt! No. >> >> XSI has image planes with placement in depth since v6.0. >> Look again at that rotocopy property page, the Image Placement options. >> > > > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Stefan Kubicek > ------------------------------------------- > keyvis digital imagery > Alfred Feierfeilstraße 3 > A-2380 Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien > Phone: +43/699/12614231 > www.keyvis.at ste...@keyvis.at > -- This email and its attachments are -- > --confidential and for the recipient only-- > >
