Viewport Background Alignment problem

[Chronicd5]

Hi Guys,

I am very much a newb at 3ds Max, and I have stumbled across a problem I had about a year back which drove me crazy. Basically what happens is, I have a background image and align it etc then when I lock the zoom/pan function the background jumps out of place. This drove me up the wall in version 9 and it's back in 2010, i eventually just dropped 3ds max for blender.

Anyway any help would be appreciated as I am quite eager to overcome this problem and get on with learning.

Thanks in Advance

Chronicd5

[P2sta]

Hi Guys,

I am very much a newb at 3ds Max, and I have stumbled across a problem I had about a year back which drove me crazy. Basically what happens is, I have a background image and align it etc then when I lock the zoom/pan function the background jumps out of place. This drove me up the wall in version 9 and it's back in 2010, i eventually just dropped 3ds max for blender.

Anyway any help would be appreciated as I am quite eager to overcome this problem and get on with learning.

Thanks in Advance

Chronicd5

welcome to the forum

if you don't need to have the picture directly on the background, map it on a plane or sphere if it's 360°

[Chronicd5]

Thank you P2sta, but can you suggest anything to correct the problem or is it just something im going to have live with?

[P2sta]

don't have any idea man, I don't use pictures on background at all maybe somebody else will know

[The Rain Knight]

i can remember that when you lock it comes back to the origin or something like that (scale may be wrong too sometimes), and there's nothing to do about it...

using mapped planes is THE unique solution...

[Chronicd5]

Aiy alright, I am a bit of a legacy user having used 3ds max 6 using background images was fine, no errors obviously things have changed a bit lol. Thanks for the help guys much appreciated

[The Rain Knight]

i'm using max since v2.5 ( ! ) and i never remember that it worked once

[petter]

i'm using max since v2.5 ( ! ) and i never remember that it worked once

i use it since ver.4
never worked since latest version...8,9,2009,2010 where started to work better and better.

[Infaas]

Hi Guys,
I have a background image and align it etc then when I lock the zoom/pan function the background jumps out of place.
Chronicd5

I have had similar problems taking that route to model, I have tried resetting the viewport's background settings and it seems to fix it, until it happens again!

So I eventually dropped that way of working and started setting up image planes and used them for reference, its the better way If you ask me, Since you are new to 3D here's a link to help you out, I recommend it: http://www.the-blueprints.com/tutori...e/KXtli_raFU0/