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rotate an Image Plane
i was watching a Tutorial on youtube, where the uploader can rotate the Image Plane with inputs of the Channel Box / Layer Editor. If i set an Image Plane i do not have these options. How did he get them?
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If you apply a reference image to a camera you can only adjust it's scale and position but not rotation.
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One thing I cannot duplicate is that when he is selecting the camera the imagePlane node is showing up as an input. On my system I do not get the Input node for the imagePlane. I get inputs for other objects but not for the cameras.
So I do not know what he is doing to make that node appear. However, Maya has been borked for me since version 2010 so for all I know this is just another symptom specific to my system(s).
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Now i see the Problem but i do not know how i can fix that.
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But it's a bit more convoluted then simply having the image plane input node show up in the channel box.
I am also using 2013.
Well I checked this on another system that still has 2012 on it and the input for the camera node shows up.
So this currently looks like a new 2013 behavior where the input node for the camera does not appear in the channel box.
I rarely use image planes so I never noticed it until now.
Maybe someone else knows if there is a secret handshake in maya 2013 to turn this back on.
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If you want to rotate an image plane, simply create a new perspective camera and attach a new image plane to it. Its not unheard of, I use them for character modelling, I think you'll find it to be more reliable than an ortho camera anyway, as theres always going to be perspective in our own field of view as well as an actual camera
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thanks for sharing, that's exactly what iam looking for!change the image attribute and then adjust the camera. in this way ,you will be able to rotate image plane c#. you must make sure you are in single plane.
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