Enviorment planes get my pc realy slow... :S

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# 1 13-06-2004 , 06:33 PM

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Enviorment planes get my pc realy slow... :S

When i set the enviorment plans to model, (top and side), all looks to work fine, but when i begin to model in nurbs, and create at least one simple figure, and i turn to an orphographic view, when i zoom or move, it really gets very very slow... whats that? any1 help plz user added image

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ps: pc= amd3000 64;, ati radeon 9800xt 256m, 1,5gb ram.. it shouldnt work bad user added image

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# 2 14-06-2004 , 12:58 AM

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the best thing to do is create a couple of poly planes for side and front views and then add a shader to each of the planes then load the image plane pic into the colour channel of the shader.

hope this makes sense

cheers

Rich

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# 3 14-06-2004 , 01:24 AM

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As u can imagine, im a noob in 3d world, so, could u describe the steps, after the plane creation ? .. please.

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# 4 14-06-2004 , 01:54 AM

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We actually have a free video tutorial that goes over the process here:

https://www.simplymaya.com/movie_page...html?tut_id=24

You could also download kbrown's "refplanes" mel script from the site which makes things even easier.

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# 5 14-06-2004 , 02:09 AM

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thank u very much

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# 6 14-06-2004 , 06:50 AM

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a little tip :

if your image is 640x480 then set the poly plane to size : 6.4x4.8 and then scale it up/down to fit your scene size .. This way you will have the right image proportions..

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