Setting up image planes in Photoshop and Maya

# 1 26-01-2012 , 09:51 AM

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Setting up image planes in Photoshop and Maya

I will try to explain, as simple as possible, so you can understand and give me a good advice.

I found some blueprints from cars, tanks and helicopters. So I but them in Photoshop, then i crop each of them to get all four sides in different layers. Then I save them,but, when i try to import in Maya, some of the images are way to bigger, and not line up. And when i try to model something, i am losing up myself, because i don't know why my images are not line up, and the problem is, i don't know how to line up.

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# 2 26-01-2012 , 10:04 AM

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Try in photoshop to create a new document the same size as your original then save the croped image in there, or you could save to a image plane in maya that way you can save in layers and turn them on and of as you need them..............dave

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# 3 26-01-2012 , 10:38 AM

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Just to crop them and save them? What about aligning?

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# 4 26-01-2012 , 10:43 AM

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I use image planes in layer and use a locator to line up the images............dave

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# 5 26-01-2012 , 10:52 AM

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I use image planes in layer and use a locator to line up the images............dave

Originally Posted by daverave

Locator? What do you mean? So you you just, crop all images in photoshop, and imported them in Maya? Cool, i can do that, but what about align user added image

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# 6 26-01-2012 , 10:55 AM

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In maya go to create then down to locator then use that to line up the images.........dave

Edit:create a plane in maya assigne a shader then on colour import file

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