Custom Background Image

[Virendra Kate]

Hello,

Is there a way to import an image and use it as the scene background? Simply using a fixed texture using materials.texture() is not an option in my case. 

If not then is there a way to change the opacity of the scene color and make it transparent (except the objects created inside the scene) ?

Thank you.

[Bruce Sherwood]

For importing an image to use as a texture in Classic VPython, see this Help article:

http://vpython.org/contents/docs/materials.html

There isn't a way to replace the background with this image, but you could place large thin boxes around your scene.

I don't understand what is meant by "scene color" and its opacity. Do you mean scene.background? You can make it any color you wish, but it doesn't have an opacity attribute.

[Virendra Kate]

Thanks for the quick reply Bruce. 

For others who might need to use an image as a background, I referred to the link which Bruce has mentioned above and https://github.com/vpython/visual/blob/master/examples/stonehenge.py and was able to import an image and use it as the texture on a thin slab ( makeshift background ).

Regards,

Virendra