{"id":3697,"date":"2014-05-01T12:39:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2014-05-18T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T07:11:36","slug":"how-can-i-use-a-reference-picture-in-the-preview-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3697","title":{"rendered":"(How) can I use a reference picture in the preview only?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although various configurations can be setup via Material Room menus, and can be managed through the Simple interface, this topic is considered Intermediate level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intermediate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First I set a Background Picture, either via the menu File &gt; Import &gt; Background Picture:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/postpmra\/PMRA.89.01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or via the Material Room directly, connecting the BG picture node with the background node:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/postpmra\/PMRA.89.02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe BG Picture node is completely compatible to the regular<a title=\"click for details\" href=\"\/?p=3645\"> image_map node<\/a>. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/wp-content\/gallery\/postpmra\/PMRA.89.03.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/>Then I switch off the use of the picture in the render, via Render Settings:<\/p>\n<p>That is: do NOT use Background Picture nor Current BG shader.<\/p>\n<p>In Material Room the associated BG Color and Black nodes can be dressed up with any node-tree. So I even can connect a different image to them, and have a picture in my render different from the preview. See\u00a0the <a href=\"\/?p=3703\">overview\u00a0on background nodes <\/a>in general.<\/p>\n<p>When I\u2019m still having problems with the Background, I just check:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whether the GROUND object (or any other object) is obstructing the view<\/li>\n<li>Whether I\u2019m trying to load an 16-bit-per-color image (don\u2019t)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/?p=3699\">Next &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although various configurations can be setup via Material Room menus, and can be managed through the Simple interface, this topic is considered Intermediate level. Intermediate First I set a Background Picture, either via the menu File &gt; Import &gt; Background Picture: or via the Material Room directly, connecting the BG picture node with the background &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(How) can I use a reference picture in the preview only?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,133],"series":[131],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poser","tag-material-room","tag-poser","series-matroom-background"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4380,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/4380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}