[Kemp]

I am new to this, is there a way to import an image to work from? I can do backgrounds, although whenever I do it, it stretches or squashes the image!

so, two questions I guess.

1. any way to import an image into cinema4d

2. when you use an image for a background scene (using a new material texture) how do you make it so it doesn't stretch the image?

[Dusteh]

Under the attributes panel, go mode > view settings, select the 'back' tab and set an image as a background there.

[Kemp]

It is greyed out, unclickable.

edit: I see, you can't do it in the perspective viewport. Thanks Dusteh

[Dusteh]

yeah, you can set an image for XYZ axis cameras ... since you can move the perspective camera around it defies the point of the background image for modelling purposes.

[Kemp]

The reason I needed it right now was to get the right perspective for an object to be edited into a photo in photoshop. Shall I just do it by eye?

[Dusteh]

ah right... no in that case go back to putting an image in a texture, and the texture on a background object.

Set the camera dimensions to the same as the image to stop it being distorted.

[Kemp]

How do you set the camera dimensions?

[Dusteh]

render settings > output, set width and height here.