Thank You for this script. Your support to users is as great as always. This really makes things easier. So simple thing but affects greatly on workflow :)
Reference Image sounded familiar. I have it on my other system and it has worked just great (except some shortcut overlaps when changing software). If my memory serves correctly I bought it 2009 or 2010. 2011 and 2012 (and now 2013) I have tried to by it again for my other systems but never got past registration. Also i have not reached support with email or through website. It's great tool and I would happily by it again. Only (?) problem is that I can't login to that site with my old login information and when I try to recover login it don't recognize my email... so be little careful :) It's great tool though.
Since as you said "paste image from clipboard" is not possible because image infrastructure mostly assumes that the image exists on your disk somewhere with a filename for it.
Would it be possible to have action/script with appropriate button to "paste image from clipboard" in Image section BUT what it actually does then
it just automatically save image from clipboard always in same directory of choice and add it in that Image panel, then you just drag the image in viewport.
Later when and if a lot of images accumulates in that directory you can always just delete them all manually.
My workflow is usually modeling in Maya then when i need something very specific and/or hard to model i take the screenshot of the model
in Maya and import the image in MoI which i use to model the object i need in MoI and that will fit perfectly when i export it back from MoI to Maya.
So basically it would be just removing the part of saving image (search where to save) and Add image in MoI (search again where you saved it).
> Would it be possible to have action/script with appropriate button to "paste image from
> clipboard" in Image section BUT what it actually does then it just automatically save image
> from clipboard always in same directory of choice and add it in that Image panel, then you
> just drag the image in viewport.
I'm sorry but currently no it's not really possible to do that because there is no mechanism exposed for MoI scripts to access an image from the clipboard.
So you will need to still save the image to disk yourself before you will be able to place it as a background image in MoI.