[Bf-committers] Camera Guides

[Campbell Barton]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Dan Eicher <dan at trollwerks.org> wrote:
>> You can currently load up an image into the 3d viewport in either the
>> foreground or background using the py-api.
>>
>> I wrote an operator a while back to test image.gl_load (or whatever it
>> ended up being called) that did just that and it was pretty easy --
>> aside from all the opengl voodoo.
>>
>> You can even display it in 3d space as I (accidentally) found out
>> while playing with artoolkit.
>>
>> Dan
>
> There is a patch for assigning images to empties. just updated it to
> the current svn:
>  http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=21740&group_id=9&atid=127
>
> Screenshot:
>  http://www.graphicall.org/ftp/ideasman42/empty_object.png
>
> Blenderartist thread
>  http://blenderartists.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-201290.html

As mentioned in my original reply, If grease pencil is to be able to
function as a camera overlay it needs to be 'AlwaysOn', when in the
camera view.
Heres a patch which does this http://www.pasteall.org/21452/diff

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- Campbell