Align View... help!!!!

[Anonymous]

Hello Folks,

I'm to do a photorendered align view command. I've set the hot points on the model and the photo, selected the photo and gone document/ creative imaging/ align view, but it says 'there is no picture selected'.

The picture (that is selected!) is on the ground floor plan. It's a Jpeg imported using the 'file/ external content/ place external drawing' command.

What am I doing wrong?!!

Cheers,

Joe

Edit: placed the drawing using the figure tool and it's recognising it now, but everytime I place the 6 points it says 'unable to place camera! check entered data or try with different points'

Any clues what's wrong this time?! (I'm assuming something simple again, haven't had chance to use this much, so any help would be appreciated!!!)

J

[Karl Ottenstein]

JoeyCAD wrote:
Edit: placed the drawing using the figure tool and it's recognising it now, but everytime I place the 6 points it says 'unable to place camera! check entered data or try with different points'

Any clues what's wrong this time?! (I'm assuming something simple again, haven't had chance to use this much, so any help would be appreciated!!!)

J

Glad you answered your own question in step 1. The coordinate message will be seen if the picture is distorted in any way - for example, taken with a wide-angle lens. There is no way to map undistorted geometry (your model) onto a distorted photo. Various old discussions on these forums you might search out discuss using Photoshop filters to correct the photo so that the model will place better.

An alternative is to not use align view, but to use the photo as a background to guide you in getting a camera view of the model as close to that as possible and then render without the background and in Photoshop (or other editor) overlay the masked model on the photo and distort the model image to fit the requirements.

Cheers,
Karl