How to display an Image Plane in front of a background (Image Plate / foreground)

Alexyz31
Sat, 10 Apr 2021 12:32:10 +0000
Cinematics & Media

Hello,

I’m struggling with a “simple” standard task:
I need a foreground image displayed in front of the background, wherever I point my camera.

I tried an old plugin “ImagePlate”, but I can’t add “ImagePlate” to the active camera in the Mastersequence.
The menu item isn’t available, despite the plugin is activated and I could create a “FileSequenceTrack” (without the ability to watch it)

I would rather prefer a simpler solution, something that does not need any sequences, but is tied to the camera as known from Maya. It is only needed a static image, blended with an alpha channel.

I have also imported a simple plane and mapped it with an image and parented it under the camera. The colors show up completely wrong. I had to turn sRGB off (but it is sRGB) in order not to get the dark tones completely black, no matter how much the brightness of the input picture is increased. It shows up now contrasty and washed out, which has maybe to do with postprocessing (I still did not check, but anyway I need the picture “shown as it is” regardless of any postprocessing adjustments.

Thanks for help and thoughts on this!

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