You can create two types of image planes: a free image plane that is not attached to a camera and that you can select and transform in your scene; or, an image plane that is attached to a camera.
Free image plane
Camera image plane
Tip: Toggle on or off
Show > Image Planes from the panel menu to display or hide image planes in each view panel.
Free image planes
To create a free image plane
-
Select
Create > Free Image Plane from the main menu bar.
- In the
Attribute Editor, click the folder icon beside the
Image Name attribute in the
ImagePlaneShape1 tab to browse to the image file that you want to use as your backdrop.
-
Adjust other
image plane attributes. For example, enable
Use Image Sequence or change the
Type drop-down list to
Movie to create an animated image plane.
See
Create an animated image plane.
To edit or position a free image plane
- Select it in the scene and move or transform it as you like. See also
Editing and aligning free image planes.
- Under
Placement, choose to
Flip in X or
Flip in Y, as necessary.
To temporarily turn off an image plane background
- In the
Attribute Editor > Image Plane Attributes section, set
Display Mode to
None.
To delete a free image plane
- Select it from the
Outliner and press
Delete.
Image planes attached to a camera
To create an image plane attached to a camera
- Select the camera to which you want to attach the image plane (View > Select Camera in the panel menu), then do either of the following:
To edit an existing image plane
- Select
View > Image Plane > Image Plane Attributes from the panel menu and choose any of the camera’s image planes you want to edit.
Only image planes attached to the current camera are listed. If you do not see the image plane listed, check that you have the correct camera selected.
The selected image plane’s attributes display in the
Attribute Editor (unless the
Attribute Editor has been hidden).
Tip: Right-click
beside
Image Plane in the camera
Attribute Editor to display the list of image planes for your camera.
To position an image plane
- Do one of the following:
- Use the
Placement attributes to position an image plane relative to the camera. See
Placement.
- Use the
Placement Extras attributes to control which portion of an image file is visible on the image plane. See
Placement Extras.
To temporarily turn off an image plane background
- Select
View > Image Plane > Image Plane Attributes from the panel menu and choose the image plane that you want to hide.
- In the
Attribute Editor >
Image Plane Attributes section, set
Display Mode
to
None.
To permanently remove an image plane background
- In
Hypershade > Browser > Cameras tab, select the image plane swatch and either press Delete or select
Edit > Delete.