Ok, I managed to get the background image on the square. It's 1024x768 so I changed the X and Y scale in the Dial Parameters to those numbers.

I went back to the pose room.

I added a figure..I need to add 3. I have them already created and saved in the library in the poses that I want, it's just a matter of adding them to the scene and placing them in their positions that I want.

Only I am having trouble with that.

I added one figure, a warrior to the scene, but I can't seem to get him placed in perspective to the size of the background. When I use the 4 hands at the top of the pose window to move him back, the whole scene including the background moves back. When I use the Z Trans dial to move him back, he sinks into the background. When I move the background back, he becomes enormous when compared to the background.

When I try scaling him down in size using the "scale" dial, he shrinks in size, but his clothes and props don't. When I saved my figures, I saved them as "whole groups", so I could adjust clothing colours and poses once in the scene if needed. How do I manipulate the figures so that they are in different positions, representing distance, while keeping the background in perspective behind them?

Incidently, I tried doing all of this in PSP, but the figures looked like they were "on top" of the background instead of integrated into it like the effect you get with Poser, which is why I am trying to do all this in poser despite a looming deadline of this afternoon. LOL

Message edited on: 07/08/2005 05:37

Message edited on: 07/08/2005 05:40

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