Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Help with Rendering and Background (please)

Dwight Yorke opened this issue on Aug 30, 2000 ยท 11 posts


LoboUK posted Wed, 30 August 2000 at 7:43 AM

Go into file, and then import. There you'll see the option to import a background image into Poser. This image will resize the window to fit the image, or just go into whatever size of window you've selected (dead centered). The background image will then show up exactly the same whichever way you turn your camera. By focusing in tight, you can frame your image so that it needs only a little cropping. You could also apply this to a square prop and place it behind the figure, but that's likely to introduce some distortion to your background. What graphics s/ware are you using? If it's Photoshop (or some other app that supports layers) you could make your background layer 1 in an image and layer the wrester on top. You'd need to chroma-key the b/ground to delete it. (Make the background some colour that isn't in the main image, and select/delete within your graphics app. Make sure you turn off anti-aliasing if you go this route). Another couple of things. You might like to add two red spot lights behind the figure, roughly matching up with the spots in the background image. Match the red colour of the background as best as you can, and aim them in the same direction as the background spots. Also, try using very finely dispersed grey clouds on a black background and using this as a texture for a transparency-mapped square in front of the wrestler. This should give the impression that the dry-ice smog is in front of him as well as behind. Hope this helps some Paul