Putting a meshed object on perspective grid

Question

I am working on a picture of a room. The room has a poster in it. I created a symbol of the poster, and it includes a picture of a soccer ball, shaded with gradient mesh. Unfortunately, I cannot put this poster on the perspective grid because of the mesh. Is there a way to convert the meshed objects (while preserving the look of the image) to a regular vector graphic that can be placed on the perspective grid?

Thanks!

Answer 1

No, unfortunately perspective is not a linear operation. What that means is that the interpolation of mesh can not happen in perspective so it wouldn't be able to hold the same look.

The only way to really do this is to rasterize the mesh objects to a pixel image.