Background images in 2.8

posted to: Scene Preparation

It's impossible to align the top & bottom view images without them being in the way of the model or each other, since you now have to use images as objects in the scene. In previous versions you could assign certain images to only appear in certain viewpoints, but that's no longer available in 2.8, which is a shame, and I have no idea why that handy feature was removed. Are there any workarounds or do I just have to settle for lowering the opacity of the obscuring image plane (and disabling the top or bottom image while working on either from the top or bottom view)?

  • spikeyxxx replied

    jjuhok you can get similar behavior if you uncheck Display Perspective:

    If you add the BG Image in Front Orthographic View for instance, you will only see it in Front Ortho.

    The only thing you can't do now is to only show it in Camera View, as far as I know...

  • Juho Korhonen(juhok) replied

    You can still see both top and bottom images at the same time when viewing from either Top or Bottom View. This is a problem if you have transparent images.

  • spikeyxxx replied

    jjuhok you can set the Side to only see Front or Back (just above Display Orthographic), that way you will only see one of them;)

  • Andrew Larson(sveusb) replied

    It was in the un-extracted form the images do not show that way.

  • fixer4oh replied

    Just slide the top and bottom images away from the center

  • spikeyxxx replied

    |The only thing you can't do now is to only show it in Camera View, as far as I know...

    Just found how to do this:

    With your Camera selected, in the Properties, there is a Background Images checkbox:


  • Douglas Whitfield(digdoug) replied

    How to achieve this effect: