Hi, 

I'm trying to drop images into a scene as billboards.  I know I'm supposed to right-click drag the item then select 'billboard' from the pop up menu.  Problem is I only get the pop up menu about 5% of the time.  The rest of the time it just applies it as the sky or what not.  Pretty sure its a bug,

Does anyone know of an alternative way to import an image as a billboard?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Also, ctrl clicking to import as a plane works fine.  Anyone know if there is a way to change the plane to a billboard.

To be honest it sounds as though there may be a problem with your mouse.

Right clicking and dragging should work 100% of the time and does for me when I test it. If your image is appearing as a background then that is what you get if you left click and drag. It may be the buttons on your mouse are not be working efficiently.

                                                                

Peter
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Right click is working fine on everything else but then again, I am running a mac mini with a windows partition and I'm using a magic mouse so could be worth trying another mouse.

Cheers for the advice!

Peter,

Just for info sake, I have exactly the same problem with Windows here in iClone 6.  I was watching a tutorial and saw it showed how to drag an image in as a billboard (or to get that option) and I couldn't get it to work even one time (it always just made it the background image).

Win 8.1, and two wireless Logitech mice on two different computers (so I suspect it's a bug as well).  I ended up just creating the billboard from the menu and populating it by dragging the image onto it.

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I just verified this still works,  as I haven't used the option in some time now.  Windows7 Ultimate, if that matters.




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And I just tried it now and for the first time it actually worked for me (the other day I could not get it to work no matter what).

So... I don't know (intermittent issues are the pits).

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I always do those things the long-winded way, so I tried it and it worked. Right-clicking dragging and dropping brings up the menu. I have Windows 7 Pro.

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Novice here!  I was able to just drag and drop images and video into a project.  All of a sudden it just stopped working.  I have reinstalled the software I4, I am sure it is user error what happened?:

Drag-and-drop using the RIGHT mouse button?

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