Walkabout window speed

[George Ioannidis]

When only model is displayed in nXt W-A window, the speed of manipulation is almost instant. After opening and displaying of background image, the speed drops down horribly, making any change or orbiting almost impossible. Is anyone else experiencing same speed drop-down? Thanks.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Yes, sure I do experience right the same. That's why I generally use a very low resolution and b/w image to load in the view, but with the same dimensions of the final image that will then be mounted with PS. I really don't know if this helps the dynamic of the walkabout view, but I suppose that loading a 3Mb image is different from loading a 200Kb one.

[George Ioannidis]

I'll try that Miguel, thanks.

[George Ioannidis]

Grayscale image speeds up things to very acceptable level. Then you can render, save image with alpha channel and final tweaks can be done in GIMP. Thanks again.

[Miguel Tano Adanes]

Perfect image George! What is the rendered part?

[George Ioannidis]

LOL

The house of course! :D

Just joking...  :)

[Marc Chaumier]

Perfect integration, George. It leads you on the Olympus mount of the software ;))

[George Ioannidis]

Hey Marc, how are you doing? Working on weekend on my sons combat group sign (digital monkeys :D )

First picture is done in nXt

while second in Blender+Cycles

It's nice to have fun from time to time (otherwise we'll go crazy with all these things happening here).

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

The WalkAbout display is run by AutoCAD.  It's can be pretty slow with background images.  You can try putting one in the standard view to verify. 

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

If you use a viewport-based resolution (i.e. by specifying the total number of pixels) it should be exactly the same.  If the rendering resolution and your AutoCAD viewport don't have exactly the same aspect ration then it will be different.