Background Image Blender 28

Blender 28 has a great way of inserting background images in and you can then add them to collections to hide them or make them non selectable. So follow this tutorial to know every thing about background images.

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The difference is that dragging an image to the 3d view in 279 creates an old style background image where it creates an empty with an image in 28.

Background image blender 28. I have been searching blender 280 for a way to add background image for modeling. I miss the background images in blender 28. Instead a background image can be added by adding an empty to the scene. The way to add and customize background images has changed in blender 28. Well now with blender 28 it looks like i may have to get used to the maya way of doing things again. You might have noticed the background images panel is gone.

If youre using blender 28 the way to add background images has changed a little. The add image panel used to be located on the properties panel when i selected n in earlier versionsbut can not find it now. The code was old and it didnt work in all windows but im sad to see the old way of adding background images go away. This cannot be done in blender 28 because if you set the wireframe mode your background image becomes a wireframe too leaving you without a background image. The old system had various internal issues so the developers decided that in blender 28 background images should be set. The easiest way to do this is to simply drag and drop your image into the 3d view.

This is a bit different than the 279 method so this tutorial will get you up to speed on the new system and maybe teach you a few tricksread more. Hello all in this tutorial i am going to show you how to add background images or reference images in blender 28. I just confirmed that 279 already allows you to restrict viewport selection in the outliner for empty objects set to display an image and also to enable x ray display mode for them. Dont get me wrong i get why the blender developers have made this change. Their new solution is to import images as planes but what if i want to model in wireframe mode. Hey blendernation by popular demand i have put together a quick tutorial going over how to utilize background images in blender 28.