Image scene preview in spoke

[salahzar]

I thought spoke was using the current cam as preview image for the scene, but now I tried and was not able to set it up.
I read one question suggesting to use firefox instead of chrome, but this did not work. Is there a procedure to set the preview image? Also it would be interesting if i can set the preview image as an image I provided separately.

[johnshaughnessy]

I thought spoke was using the current cam as preview image for the scene, but now I tried and was not able to set it up.

As of this recent change to Spoke, the preferred way to set up the scene image is to use the Scene Preview Camera.

This is an object that will live in the scene hierarchy and can be positioned using the same gizmos as any other object. There is also a button to set it based on your current viewport:

The benefit of this is that you can configure the camera once, and don't have to adjust the viewport each time you want to re-upload the scene.

Also it would be interesting if i can set the preview image as an image I provided separately.

As far as I know, that is not possible yet, but sounds like a good feature request. I recommend looking for or adding a new issue about this.

[salahzar]

thanks @johnshaughnessy this solves my question at least partially... but... I can see the preview cam in the hierarchy but CANT see it as elements: is that something wanted?
UPDATE: i've seen that if you deleted the cam in the hierarchy then the element appears in the selectable list so definitely this is solved 👍