[Question]How to work with reference images
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Pictures say more than words (especially if english is your second language 
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To make it clear, yes all three photos show the very same object (I most certainly know!).
As I have absolutely no clue about photography my guess is: perspective and lens curvature (would never had guessed that it alters proportions to such a great extend!).
As you might guess I just fit it in left view, than adjusted it from front view and there I already knew that something is terrible off so I put in a reference picture in top view and yep confirms that the proportions are way off.
My guess is, I would need to align the model to the perspective of the image but with out knowing what lens curvature the camera had this will be a task of its own ... .
I'll keep working on the project and will be relying more on eye-balling it, if it looks right and go from there, but if anyone could give me some useful methods, I would be mostly thankful
Thank you in advance!
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And yes I have a lot more pictures than the three up there, here is a couple of images I guessed that were most useful.
)To make it clear, yes all three photos show the very same object (I most certainly know!).
As I have absolutely no clue about photography my guess is: perspective and lens curvature (would never had guessed that it alters proportions to such a great extend!).
As you might guess I just fit it in left view, than adjusted it from front view and there I already knew that something is terrible off so I put in a reference picture in top view and yep confirms that the proportions are way off.
My guess is, I would need to align the model to the perspective of the image but with out knowing what lens curvature the camera had this will be a task of its own ... .
I'll keep working on the project and will be relying more on eye-balling it, if it looks right and go from there, but if anyone could give me some useful methods, I would be mostly thankful
Thank you in advance!
*edit*
And yes I have a lot more pictures than the three up there, here is a couple of images I guessed that were most useful.
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I have already looked anywhere if I could find technical drawings / blueprints (user manuals, official site, parts sites etc). It is a limited model (just 47 have been sold) so yeah ... no luck.
Never knew it was so hard to model something more complex with only photos.
In the past I always had at least a side view and than photos for eyeballing details
Thank you for the reply!
Yes, pro tip from me, ebay is your best friend, I found so many good pictures from different angles, it is insane (I searched for 1125 engine, 1125 rim, 1125 swing-arm and so on).
I think I have probably every image one can find (my reference folder has a size of 2,39 GB, 1163 files, mostly images, ten video's and two pdf's) , I used google search (which lead me to motorbike forums), instagram (there were actually many good images there), facebook and twitter. Also I found the user and parts manual from the Buell 1125 as pdf (the Magpul Ronin is based on that).
But there is absolutely no orthographic reference, I found CAD images but they are perspective as well.
I see it as a big learning experience, but actually I wanted to make something "easy" as in focusing on modelling.
This to me is a quick way of checking, if I need to make smaller adjustments to what I am doing next.
This takes a little more time to set up probably, with ctrl + +/- you can make pureref transparent, with ctrl+t pureref will ignore your mouse so you can also work in this view.
Interesting topology for that hub?!
What do you mean by "Interesting topology for that hub?!"