[Bf-committers] Reference Images Proposal

[Charles Wardlaw]

What about a modifier?  Add the "image plane" modifier to an empty,
and it holds all the data.
~ C


On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Update: Discussed over lunch & Ton reckons having image as obdata for
> empties is OK, but not adding a new object type.
> This can replace background images as suggested earlier.
>
> This can be added regardless of how projection paint ends up working
> since being able to place a reference image is important, while it
> adds some overhead to have objects for each reference image it also
> means we can support them without adding new ways to manage layers,
> drawing, hiding, transforming a new data type, copy to another scene
> etc.