The Maya Parallel To Cutouts

[yinonlevi]

hello!

in ( humanistic ) architectural images its costumary to add people (and trees etc.).
softwares like sketchup allow to add what is called cut-outs - images projected on a plane parallel to the camera. i was wondering if there is a similar fiture in Maya or a way to simulate it with some kind of shader.
is there an alternative maybe other than adding actual models?
thanks much,

arch_amature.

[gmask]

yes, assign image maps of people with alpha channels to a lambert shader assigned to a polygon or nurbs plane of the correct size to match the image.

[yinonlevi]

thanks!

but what if the nurbs plane is not frontal to the camera? is there a way to fix it to be frontal to the camera?

[joojaa]

aim constrain it to the camera (if you wish ou can constrain only along a axis also.)