Huge problem!!

[benedicti 0]

I dont know if i am in the right forum, but I was making the cheyenne plane, with the background texture trick. I saved everthing and closed it. Now when I open it the texture doesnot appear.

Some guy from i44 told me that thats how thing work, that you have to make teh whole model in one session. I was wondering how do the people that make very complicated addons manage to do the model in on session.

[BraTTy 0]

Yes unfortunately the background does not reload and he is correct (I saw this message from scousejedi)

Heres some things I do:

I try to make all my 3 view textures the same size

And then I form the background box the same size as the work area (20x20) that way my texture is always the same size

I try to make most all major and important parts at the first sitting ,you need to at least make the major outline or some parts so that you can reload and resize your background and line it up again if you have to, or you can leave O2 running (I have left mine for days)

There are other tricks too...

You can lay out your backgrounds and create a face and apply each background to a face in its window

(I save them to a blank LOD so I can copy and paste them back when I need them)

And then use the feature "background from face" (cntrl + B)

Cheers

Happy AddonMaking