WEBVTT 00:00.270 --> 00:03.350 Welcome to importing images as planes. 00:03.510 --> 00:11.280 In this video you will set up an add on that enables you to import images as planes be able to import 00:11.310 --> 00:18.210 an image into a scene and realize this can be another way of importing reference material. 00:18.480 --> 00:21.500 So let's go hop on over in a blender. 00:21.930 --> 00:26.160 Okay so back over in blender our rabbit is coming along really well. 00:26.250 --> 00:29.090 So let's hop over to the 3-d view here. 00:29.100 --> 00:32.470 And well we just got a pair of highs for the moment. 00:32.590 --> 00:35.000 A lot of counter views come out of there. 00:35.100 --> 00:35.520 Excellent. 00:35.520 --> 00:38.900 That's unhide some of the other stuff that's in the scene. 00:39.090 --> 00:44.170 So with this rabbit coming along quite nicely we're going to start to want to give it some environment 00:44.250 --> 00:46.860 and we're going to do some grass for that. 00:46.860 --> 00:49.600 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add grass. 00:49.620 --> 00:53.890 This plane here but I'm going to choose this new layer over here. 00:53.900 --> 00:54.630 Lay a five. 00:54.630 --> 00:56.190 If you wanted three four five. 00:56.190 --> 01:04.190 Pretty sure if you hit number five on the key pad it would take you there as well or five yeah. 01:04.260 --> 01:05.010 Brilliant. 01:05.010 --> 01:11.380 So now that we're on this layer I'm going to respond to the cursor with shift and see down to here. 01:11.550 --> 01:15.070 And I want to add an image as a plane. 01:15.080 --> 01:23.760 Now what you will need to do is go to file user preferences and go to your add ons tab at the top. 01:23.760 --> 01:26.660 Now you can search through this entire one here. 01:26.740 --> 01:34.380 If we go to the search menu on the top left and type in plane we will have the option to import export 01:34.500 --> 01:37.040 import images as planes. 01:37.170 --> 01:43.980 If he makes sure on the rights of the user preferences there's a little tick in the tick box on check 01:43.980 --> 01:47.290 box and then save your user settings. 01:48.140 --> 01:55.700 Then when you exit the user preferences when you go shift in a under meche you you'll have images as 01:55.700 --> 01:58.090 planes as one of your options. 01:58.310 --> 02:01.580 So go ahead and click on that now. 02:01.670 --> 02:09.890 Now what I'd like you to do is go ahead to your asset pack right now and go ahead and open up the nature's 02:09.890 --> 02:11.670 texture folder. 02:11.990 --> 02:17.440 And I'm going to just toggle the thumbnail view so I can see my images. 02:17.480 --> 02:19.870 As you can see I've taken a few images. 02:19.880 --> 02:25.220 Some of these are from photos I've taken in the past and I've altered them to fit into our system here 02:25.220 --> 02:25.770 quite well. 02:25.880 --> 02:28.850 Now you would notice all the images themselves are square. 02:28.850 --> 02:30.680 Now that is important. 02:30.810 --> 02:35.420 I won't go into the details about that just at the moment but suffice to say there is important that 02:35.420 --> 02:38.920 there are all powers of two and that makes them square right. 02:38.930 --> 02:42.920 I'm going to go ahead and pick grass blade. 02:43.050 --> 02:48.170 They all notice that of all the grass blades one of them is white and will be dealing with that in a 02:48.170 --> 02:49.210 future lecture. 02:49.310 --> 02:50.570 But not this one. 02:50.780 --> 02:53.520 So open up a grass blade toe. 02:54.580 --> 03:00.390 And we can see that it's pots a plane into us now going to view it's from the top. 03:00.910 --> 03:05.140 It's just literally that it's a plane with that bit of grass on it. 03:05.140 --> 03:09.120 Now obviously we can't see that at the moment so how do we go about doing that. 03:09.130 --> 03:15.360 Well if we change the view mode the viewport shading here from solid to texture we will see it. 03:15.400 --> 03:21.220 Now everything that was transparent on that image has gone black and everything that's got the image 03:21.220 --> 03:26.560 on it itself has gone well is the image is the blade of grass. 03:26.560 --> 03:32.680 Now we can also see that in material mode and of course in the rendered mode as well. 03:32.680 --> 03:35.040 So that's how you will see that on there. 03:35.050 --> 03:42.430 Now this is an incredibly powerful way of bringing in reference material as well because it's not limited 03:42.430 --> 03:44.630 to the x y and z plane. 03:44.680 --> 03:51.870 So you can use it if necessary to bring in a reference image in a very specific location. 03:52.120 --> 03:53.340 Armed with that knowledge. 03:53.350 --> 03:55.170 I think it's time for a challenge. 03:55.270 --> 03:55.850 OK. 03:55.870 --> 03:59.890 I would like you to practice importing images as planes. 04:00.040 --> 04:05.510 So go ahead and import to other grass blade images not the one with the white background. 04:06.070 --> 04:11.050 Oh to the origins to be at the bottom of the grass image so where it comes where it would come up out 04:11.050 --> 04:18.520 of the ground and just make sure that all the origins are at the Z equals zero and leave a space between 04:18.520 --> 04:22.930 the images see if they're all coming in in one place they're going to be on top of one another. 04:23.050 --> 04:25.560 So they aren't on top of one another. 04:27.350 --> 04:31.110 Then finally make sure that the origins are all at Z equals zero. 04:31.360 --> 04:35.970 And leave a space between the images so they're not on top of one another. 04:36.100 --> 04:38.520 Suppose a video now and give that a go. 04:40.810 --> 04:41.390 Okay guys. 04:41.410 --> 04:42.580 Welcome back. 04:42.580 --> 04:46.970 Let's see how we can import to more grass images over in blender. 04:48.120 --> 04:53.780 Right so we've got the one image over into our system we're going to come out of rendered mode and hop 04:53.780 --> 04:55.980 back into solid mode for the moment. 04:56.000 --> 04:56.270 No. 04:56.270 --> 04:57.680 I'm going to hop into texture mode. 04:57.680 --> 04:58.250 Why not. 04:58.380 --> 05:01.890 And I'm just going to move that to one side. 05:02.030 --> 05:07.550 Going to imports all of my images first before doing anything else of course you can do all of the options 05:07.550 --> 05:09.010 you want. 05:09.020 --> 05:09.920 Let's have a look. 05:09.920 --> 05:12.090 Let's imports all. 05:12.110 --> 05:17.120 I quite like the look of this one here Number 10 looks quite interesting and I'm going to move that 05:17.240 --> 05:20.380 to the side here using the manipulator. 05:20.390 --> 05:21.390 And one final. 05:21.390 --> 05:28.190 Let me to this go and add that shift day images as planes and I'm going to pick this tall grass seed 05:28.190 --> 05:30.880 one that's a nice and nice difference there. 05:30.900 --> 05:32.630 There are left or right. 05:32.930 --> 05:33.750 Doesn't matter. 05:33.770 --> 05:40.420 Okay so we've got those there and what have we got to do we've got to make the origins. 05:40.430 --> 05:45.140 Now the great thing about the three curses you've realized in past lectures is it sticks to the thing 05:45.140 --> 05:46.170 you're clicking on. 05:46.370 --> 05:51.650 So what we can do here is are I've run out of zoom so I've not got a number pad with me so I'm going 05:51.650 --> 05:55.300 to use the View menu and go to have you selected. 05:55.310 --> 05:58.800 It's going to zoom right in and allow me to zoom in a little further. 05:59.060 --> 06:04.290 We've got the clipping there of the camera going on so I can actually change that. 06:04.310 --> 06:07.080 But I don't need to get much closer than this anyway. 06:07.250 --> 06:13.730 And I'm going to select about there with it's now final Lakers were in object mode I can go to set origin 06:13.730 --> 06:15.490 to the 3D cursor. 06:15.770 --> 06:20.360 Let's go ahead and go over here and do the same. 06:20.360 --> 06:26.090 Select this object select where it had come out of the ground which is probably about there and set 06:26.120 --> 06:27.790 origin to the 3D cursor. 06:27.800 --> 06:29.970 And we've got one final image to do. 06:30.970 --> 06:35.390 Which is this one here that select it and click down there. 06:35.580 --> 06:37.500 Is that right in the right place. 06:37.500 --> 06:38.940 Let's have a look. 06:39.950 --> 06:43.610 Excellent set the origin to the 3-d cursor. 06:43.610 --> 06:44.270 Brilliant. 06:44.270 --> 06:47.520 So that's our three images ready to go. 06:47.990 --> 06:49.280 How did you guys get on. 06:49.400 --> 06:54.770 Please share in the discussions your three images that you've chosen and I will see you in the next 06:54.770 --> 06:55.410 lecture.