[Bf-committers] Camera Guides

[Jonathan Smith]

Douglas,

Speaking of the background image, it is already possible to translate and
scale the background image in other views (eg. Side, Top, etc.), just not
the camera view. So I imagine it would be pretty easy to implement it so
that it works for camera view too. The opacity setting controls transparency
so that is already implemented as well. However there is not setting for
placing the background image on top of the scene, but I can't really see the
point of that. Maybe you could give some examples of where it would be
useful?

Cheers,
Jonathan

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2. There is a fundamental difference between Grease Pencil and a
> composition
> > guide IMO. A composition guide encodes a "rule of thumb" regarding
> > aesthetics. Most of these rules do not have any free parameters (e.g.
> rule
> > of thirds). Therefore, hardcoding these rules seems acceptable. Grease
> > Pencil OTOH is basically of a visual "TODO" list with an infinite number
> of
> > free parameters. Why do you think it is necessary to have a composition
> > guide adjustable by python? What is the application of that?
> >
>
> I invented this idea of the Grease Pencil because I wanted to be able to
> communicate with my fellow movie project workers in a blend file. I gave
> the
> idea to a dev on irc and he ran with it, making into something way better
> than I ever imagined. Changing the camera view is totally different. Having
> a way to show the golden rule in the camera view and other such features
> seems like a great and easy thing to implement, even my real camera has a
> view with thirds to help with composition. I would love to have this simple
> feature.
>
> And while we are talking about this sort of subject, I would love to be
> able
> to have a way to set the background image so that it is over or under the
> main image as well scaling, rotating and mirroring it as needed. Also being
> able to adjust its transparency would be good.
>
> Thanks.
>
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