hi, Fran,

What TheDissident is describing is useful in all rendering applications.

What you do is you render parts of the scene seperately, saving each part as a .png file, and, in an editing program such as Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, layering the images on top of the other.

For example, If you have a large scene, render the Background, Middleground, and Foreground as 3 separate .png files to composite in PSP. You go into the "Scene" Tab and click the little eye next to all of the objects that you want to be "invisible", and then render each part seperately. It is an easy way to get complex scenes without having to raise your render time. (I know it sounds like it takes longer, but, in the long run, it saves loads of time).

Cheers!

MS

Message edited on: 06/06/2005 12:00

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