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I would like to switch my background image. I click the x under view/background, then open and then my image. But it won’t appear and that is even if I click reload. And I’m in the “3” key perspective. Any ideas…

2

If you have loaded you image you can only see it when the 3D view is straight on, meaning front, right, or top ortho. Hit the 1, 3, or 7 key on the key pad. IF you hold down the control key when you hit the 1, 3, or 7 key you get the reverse (back, left, or bottom)

Cheers.

3

Are you in Perspective view? If so the background image will not display. Press 5 on teh numpad to go back into orthographic view.

4

I have the same problem. When I first tried to use a background image in 2.47 it worked. Came back the next day to continue and no image will display. Loaded the project into the older version and there it is so I know I am doing it correctly. It simply will not display in 2.47.

= Blender 2.47 System Information =

Platform: linux2

Python:

  • Version: 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 23:20:23)
    [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)]

  • Paths:

/home/william/.blender-2.47
/usr/lib/python25.zip
/usr/lib/python2.5
/usr/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2
/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-tk
/usr/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gst-0.10
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/gtk-2.0
/home/william/.blender-2.47/.blender/scripts
/home/william/.blender-2.47/.blender/scripts/bpymodules

  • Directories:

Blender home dir:
/home/william/.blender-2.47/.blender

Default dir for scripts:
/home/william/.blender-2.47/.blender/scripts

Default “bpydata/” data dir for scripts:
/home/william/.blender-2.47/.blender/scripts/bpydata

User defined dir for scripts:
<NOTICE> – not found

Data dir “bpydata/” inside user defined dir:
<NOTICE> – not found

Default config data “bpydata/config/” dir:
/home/william/.blender-2.47/.blender/scripts/bpydata/config

  • Modules: all basic ones were found.

OpenGL:

  • Renderer: GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU/AGP/SSE/3DNOW!

  • Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation

  • Version: 1.5.8 NVIDIA 96.39

  • Extensions:

GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_pixel_buffer_object
GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shader_objects
GL_ARB_shading_language_100 GL_ARB_texture_compression
GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3
GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_rectangle
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_buffer_object
GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_vertex_shader GL_ARB_window_pos
GL_S3_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra
GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array GL_EXT_Cg_shader
GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord
GL_EXT_gpu_program_parameters GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays
GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_paletted_texture
GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_point_parameters
GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color
GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette
GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc
GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp
GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3
GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_lod
GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_vertex_array
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat
GL_KTX_buffer_region GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_fence GL_NV_fog_distance
GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil
GL_NV_pixel_data_range GL_NV_point_sprite GL_NV_register_combiners
GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_env_combine4
GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_vertex_array_range
GL_NV_vertex_array_range2 GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1
GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_multitexture GL_SGIS_texture_lod
GL_SUN_slice_accum

  • Simplistic almost useless benchmark:

Redrawing all areas 10 times took 0.2648 seconds.

I notice a couple of directories are “not found”. I’ll check into that.

Thanks.

MrBabinga

5

Does it works if instead of “Reloading” the image you try to reopen it a second time?
Because that’s what happens here, if I select a bg image it doesn’t display, then I reselect it and it works. Strange, but at least, it works :wink:

6

I have tried reloading, reopening. Tried a new file entirely. Nothing works. If I go back to 2.44. Works fine. I am certain that I am doing it right. I can do a workaround for modeling, but at some point I will need the background. I also found out that when I render and use a background in the “backbuf” it doesn’t display. I may just give up. I did try this on Windows XP (same PC) and it worked fine, so I know my hardware is compatible. Seems to be a Linux issue.

Thanks for the input.

:slight_smile: