[Bf-committers] Camera Guides

[Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com]

Bassam i think the empties thing is totally unrelated, we still have
to solve the guides thing. I dunno.. i like the current patch a lot, i
use it every day. Maybe people are over thinking this? In any case if
fox was working on configurable guides with presets, why did he stop?

Daniel Salazar
3Developer.com



On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Bassam Kurdali
<bkurdali at freefactory.org> wrote:
> What just happened?
>
> I'm guessing the original patch for camera guides got rejected. But it
> seems people think that bg images for empties is a replacement for it?
> why is this? And why is it cool to override Empties with a gazillion
> draw types, but somehow this is bad design for Cameras?
>
> If the rationale is 'parent an empty with thirds grid png on it' to the
> camera, we could already parent a wireframe object to the camera- even
> easier since you don't also have to go into a paint package, but both
> suffer from:
>
> -a bunch of labor to set  up, then needs to be fiddled with everytime
> you change the camera or tweak the focal length. and unneeded clutter in
> your scene.
>
> Don't get me wrong, the new image empties are nice for reference images
> for modeling. But: They don't have anything to do with camera
> composition guides, which are more like the 'titlesafe' overlay already
> in the camera view options.
>
> PS. I hope I don't come across as angry. I'm just amused, and
> unaffected, since I patched my own copy of blender a long time ago ;)
>
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