Shit man one thing I'm really hating about blender 2.8 is they removed background images

So modeling over blueprints is a huge pain in the arse now...

Since you have to add planes or empties and assign the blueprint to them... agh what the hell were they thinking...

@Springbok Alternatives
1. Either use them as Empties like you could before, if you are using them as reference images to model over. This allows for great control of size, positioning and display options.

2. Use them in the newly added Camera Background feature, if you are aligning a camera to an existing photo, matching perspectives, for later compositing a 3D scene over existing footage.

3. Import them as planes using the Import Images as Planes addon like in previous versions

Old method

New method... Don't like this

I'm trying to get started on the Samil 100 but struggling with the blueprints... I really, really miss the 2.79 background image feature

How about option 2?

I'll try that now

PS. you are using 2.8.1 right?

No 2.8

2.8.1 is latest

Ah alright on the Blender website on the mainpage it had the download for 2.8

2.80

Installer still sys 2.80

Neve mind. 2.8.1 is next beta. Sorry

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-81/

No worries

I think what I may do is move back to 2.79 for modeling

2.8 for rendering...

2.8 is much much much better. Stick with it, you won't look back

You have to do it at some point anyway

I know. I'm loving it already except for the lack of the background image feature

I can't even model properly without that feature. It's paramount to how I work

Why they removed that feature is beyond me. It was far simpler in the old blender and you didn't have the blueprints cluttering the workspace like they do now.

I add my references into a collection called "References" and just turn that on and off as needed, but each to his own. You do what works for you.

I think I'm getting the hang of it but it's so much more work than it was before

Takes a lot longer setting up blueprints

Okay set up the blueprints for the Samil 100

Got the hang of it now. But I must say I still prefer the old method

It was far quicker and less actions to do

@PetraCephas Do you know how to lower the opacity of the blueprint images like you could in 2.79? The white background is quite glaring. Anyway I've finally got a basic block out of the Samil 100. I'll do the soft skin variant first and then the Kwevoel

I don't have that red button for some reason.

You are going shift-A and then add reference image right?

Ja

Or it was background image

not sure which one

Strange

Agh I'll figure it out soon. I wish Blender had been like this all along. It's painful having to completely relearn Blender 😰