Blueprint Modeling

[glorybound]

I am finding it hard to model from a plan because I can't see the lines I am drawing. How do people work like this?

[Donald2B]

Just move your plan down in Z. Use 2.5d snaps. That way the new lines you create are at 0 and the plan lines are say 4 ft below.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Move planes to right/left/front, make them backface culing, and so on. I usually have them miles away from my model.... frozen...use alt+x on models to get transparency look

[Morne]

or use standard materiual with opacity set to 50% for the blueprint then you'll see it in viewport

[glorybound]

I'll try that standard material... the frozen layer turns off the map for me.

[instinct]

Turn off "show frozen in gray" for the plan before freezing

[glorybound]

Turn off "show frozen in gray" for the plan before freezing

yep! that worked, thanks.

[vasilescu_anton]

Just released this script that does what you need
http://75ive.com/tools.html#blueprint_manager

The script was written for a series of video tutorials on maxscript. To see them look under tutorials on my site.

Hope this helps!
Anton

[glorybound]

I'll check it out, thanks!

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Just released this script that does what you need
http://75ive.com/tools.html#blueprint_manager

The script was written for a series of video tutorials on maxscript. To see them look under tutorials on my site.

Hope this helps!
Anton

Interesting, but can u make slider to move away the planes? So they not so close to each other... I find out that once its far away its less distracting and easier to model...

[vasilescu_anton]

Dadal, you're right, I'll add that to it.