Blueprint Problem

[mitsu50]

Hi,

I am trying to set these blueprints up in 3ds max, and they look like crap. I have the viewport config set up with the max tex size 1024 and 512 ,and match as close slected, but no love. I tried saving them as jpeg, tiff, and leaving as png. Even the stock image inserted on a plane of equal size looks awefull. I've attached the image from the-blueprints.com.

Can anyone have a look and see. Is it in the way the print was made? Does it need to be reduced in size, then cut up in photoshop? They are so clear and detailed, and line up great, i hate to not be able to use them. Thanks in advance!

[LOST]

Try this:

http://www.smcars.net/forums/tutoria...t-quality.html

I hope it'll help.

[mitsu50]

I've already tried all the suggestions i could find here, including that one. I even went back and installed max 8 to see if max 9 had a problem. Nope same messy prints.

Could it be that the image needs to be scaled down closer to max 1024 by 512?

[The IC]

try scaling the image down, the lines are so thin (1 pixel) that they get lost when max tries to compress them down to a useable size

[mitsu50]

that is pretty much what is happening, when i zoom into the plane, the lines kind of disapear. I'll try that when i get home! thanks

[mitsu50]

well i tried the scaling down, no luck. Perhaps i'm doing it wrong. All im doing is re-sizing it in PS, and saving it out to another file. Are there any other things i can try? Thanks!

[Alexander]

try this :

[mitsu50]

Dude you rock, that looks great. I cant wait to try this one. What did you do to get nice lines like that?

[Alexander]

i'll try to explain but my english is not very good ;-)
i pick the color of the lines in photoshop, enlarged the selection and filled, on a new layer, the bigger selection with a color
pls report me whether it works cause my 3ds max isn't working right...

[mitsu50]

I sure will, When i get home tonight. Thanks again!