Background Positioning

Hey Al:

I just downloaded V4..........the background positioning wizard is not there as you show it in your tutorial. Am I missing something here?

Thanks,

Chris

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on October 14, 2011 at 8:56am

Also, the mouse scroll button should zoom in and out.

Alain Bonnefoy said:

Oups, ok, I just tried redimensionning the window. stupid.

Thanks a lot.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on October 14, 2011 at 9:32am

No, I can't duplicate it.

Any chance you could post or send me the model?

Alain Bonnefoy said:

I notice a strange behavior where background image doesn't appear accross a window (KJ10).

Here is what I'm supposed to see, according to the preview:

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on October 14, 2011 at 9:42am

I'm going to change the view angle, to see, but, a bit strange

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on October 14, 2011 at 10:05am

Well, difficult to talk about refraction here!

I suppose I can sendyou the model. the background image is very large (8800x4072) Do you think it could cause such problem?

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 14, 2011 at 10:15am

What you see in the windows is exactly the effect refraction can have. Especially if you have the thick/thin settings for the glass wrong. (thick means the glass has two panes in SketchUp)

Try removing or hiding the glass entirely to see what we see when there is not glass.

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on October 14, 2011 at 10:37am

Very very thick in that case, it's most a lenz than a glass.

I don't really trust you, and my glass seems to be set to thin.

And about refraction, maybe the opened window should distort the image differently, I suppose.

That's strange I never saw such problem but in fact I wonder if I already had a part of the background image directly visible.

Anyway, for me, refraction effect cannot explain a so big "zoom" result.

Alain

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on October 14, 2011 at 10:50am

Like I said, I couldn't duplicate it here, playing around with refraction, thin, thick, etc.

Could you send me the model and the image?

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on October 14, 2011 at 10:57am

Did you try removing the glass to see if the glass was causing the distortion, or if there was a problem with the background image.

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on October 15, 2011 at 1:59am

Rich, you should have received the model and the image via yousendit. Did you get it?

Al, Sure the problem is caused by the glasses. If you look at the opened window or beside the model, you can see the original image.

Another strange thing, it seems the image is displayed differently through the door's glass.

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Permalink Reply by Alain Bonnefoy on October 15, 2011 at 2:30am

Rich Hart said:

Like I said, I couldn't duplicate it here, playing around with refraction, thin, thick, etc.

Could you send me the model and the image?

Thanks.

Strange! I get it with a very simple test case, but I encounter an error everytime I try to upload files. I wanted to send you the sketchup model. I give it to you via email.

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on October 15, 2011 at 9:00am

Thanks for sending the model and the image.

Unfortunately, I don't see the shifting of the background that you get, my images look pretty much the same in both the Rendering window and the Background Preview window, so I'm still stumped. I don't really see any problem in the image you posted in reply right above either though, or am I missing something?

My preview: