Hi Mark,

I've been working through your VTC Tutorial set for C7Pro.  Very well done by the way.  Having upgraded to C8Pro I thought it made sence to use C8 instead of C7 to work throught the lesson files.  I'm currently working on chapter 10 - Vertex Modeller, in particular movie 15,16, and 17, which uses reference images attached to the drawing plane or grid.  All fairly straight forward and quite easy to follow, and everthing worked flawlessly in C7Pro.  So here is my problem.  In C8Pro, I zoom in to get a better look at the front or side images so I can plot my curves and then when I try to pan to continue to plot the rest of the image, the entire drawing grid and my previously marked points move away from the image thus loosing my alignment with the image. It appears the image loads as a background image and not onto the drawing grid.  Quite frustrating to say the least!  Can you suggest a workaround.  I submitted a bug report to Daz, when I tried this lesson with the initial release of C8Pro and we've had a couple of updates since then.  The problem persists in Version 8.0.1.45. 

I don't have that happening.  Are you in the 4 View when this happens or single view top or left/right or bottom?  I went into C8, added a vertex object and am in the Modeling room, clicked on Global and did the backdrop under the global tab.

That's my point... I don't want a backdrop image, I want the image to attach itself to the drawing grid (as it does in C7) so that when I pan the camera across the  image in one of the Ortho views (front  or side views) using Alt+LMB, my plotted curves and the drawing grid remain locked in position according to the reference image
But to answer your question, i start in a 4 view and I end in a full side or front view to plot the details.  It doesn't seem to matter if I start in the full vertex modeller or if I drop a vertex object in the assembly room and then load up my reference images.
I'm using a number of computers, 32 and 64 bit, Xp Pro and Windows 7.
As mentioned previously, C7Pro works flawlessly and I have absolutely no problem using reference images in the Vertex Modeller on any of my workstations.  I just can't seem to get the reference images to behave as such in the C8Pro Vertex Modeller.

Okay I guess where the confusion is that I went to the same Tutorial and looked at 15, 16, 17 (16 17 cover something else).  I checked out 14.  In the tutorial he is using what I mentioned the backdrop.  Can you tell me how you are loading a background image that is viewable in the vertex modeling room then I can see if its happening on mine.  That and I would like to see how that works and where you are loading your images into.

When I load up the backdrop images they stay locked to the grid, when I pan using either the keyboard + mouse button or using the icons the screen moves the grid stays with the image.  

 Hi ProPose001, 

I can confirm. Looks like you discovered a regression bug. I'll file a report too.

Mark

Quote -  Hi ProPose001, 

I can confirm. Looks like you discovered a regression bug. I'll file a report too.

Mark

Thanks Mark

Hi All,

I just downloaded the update  Carrara 8.1.0.18 and I can tell you that the problem outlined above STILL Persists.  Bummer!!!