Thank you to everyone who showed interest in my idea for a collaborated image, Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity. Now for some more info. What I want from each participant is a render of your chosen character(s), using the light and camera settings I supply. Place your figures in the centre of the scene, around the default area where a model loads. Please dont move the camera or alter any of the settings or the thing wont work properly. If you need to reposition some of your figures, feel free to do so but dont move them forward from the default loading position; work back from there. When the time comes for me to put the final image together I will take care of moving the figures within the scene. I did a few test renders and the perspectives should all hang together ok, given the nature of the scene. A note about positions: It really isnt practical for me to take position preferences into account so youll have to trust me on this one. Naturally, not every render can be centre stage; I hope you can all leave a bit of your egoes to one side and not be upset if your carefully put together vignette is somewhere in the background. I will try to give everyone a chance to shine it is a collaboration, after all but the idea is a crowd scene, not a Hey, look at my great image effort. In order for me to make this work I will need your finished picture in a format which I can composite with the least fuss and bother. Please dont add any lighting effects in Photoshop/Paintshop or whatever. Leave the lights I supplied to do their thing. Your submissions should be in PNG or PSD format with a blank background so the figures will lift off cleanly without the need to mask or cut out things. So, render and save as PNG, postwork hair or tidy up clothes if necessary but leave the background alone. Please also remember to switch off the ground plane if its there. No ground shadows are needed, they will be postworked in. Make sure you use Drop to floor for your figures. This will help me to ensure the perspective remains consistent. The file Im supplying is a blank PZ3, containing the lights, camera and pretty much nothing else. It was created in Poser 6 but loads ok on Poser 5. Poser 5 will complain but it will load and render. I dont know about Poser 4 or Pro Pack but if all else fails I can instruct you how to recreate it easily enough. Failing that, another Poser user may know of a painless way to convert it. Please mail me at king_dice@yahoo.com for a copy. It's tiny but too big to post here. Youll notice the scene is in 16:9 format and the Preview is relatively tiny. Make it bigger if you want but please keep the proportions. The render size you should work at is 3200 x 1800. That should not be too big because most of the scene is empty. Pretty please with a cherry on top, render at 72 dpi, and Poser5/6 users, keep away from Texture Filtering. Use a fine shading rate (at least 0.5 or better) and make sure Raytracing is On. There is one shadow casting light, which is set to raytraced shadows. This will give a bit more depth than if there were none at all. As I mentioned before, dont worry about the ground shadows. Ol Sam here will take care of those. Poser 4 users, make sure Anti Aliasing is on and use a hefty Shadow Map for the light. When your image is done, please mail it to me at king_dice@yahoo.com and give your email the title Jupiter render. Please title your picture with your Renderosity user name. This will help me to keep track of who did what. Thats about it. Thanks and Happy Rendering. :)

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How big is the pz3? I may be able to host it for ease of access for everyone - and to save you a lot of emails.....

Well, it's a whopping big 208 kb. Check yer mail, you should have a copy. :) Thank you for the offer. If you can host it, please post back in this thread to let everyone know.

Note to everyone who is joining in... In case I didn't make it clear (my wording above is a little ambiguous) please, please, pretty please, send your finished pic to me in PNG or PSD. Forget about TIF, it's too much like hard work when there are a lot to sort through.

You might want to post a message to the old thread, pointing them here.

Good idea. Will do it right now. :)

Not there yet - but I am quite happy to host it for you. The email addy I use here may have caught it in their Spam catcher - have sent yopu an email from my other addy send it back via that one and I'll upload it soon as i get it....

I think webhosting would be a good idea. It came through to my e-mail addy as part of the message, not as a separate attachment. I guess Gmail recognized it as plain text and decided it was supposed to be part of the e-mail body. I turned it back into a PZ3...I think. But it was a right pain.

Sent again. Thanks once again, tastiger.

Attached Link: Get the pz3 here

Got the pz3. But I still have a coupe of questions. First: positions. I'm working on that EJ-Werewolf tango theme, and right now I positioned them on the center of the stage. I guess this will be Jupiter's seat, so where should I move them? Second: shadow catcher. I've got P6, should I use the shadow catcher on the ground? Third: where do I submit my contribution(s)? I'd also like to submit WIPs. This is FUN!

Reread the starting post, and I saw most of my questions are answered already. Should learn to read better! LOL!

svdl - thanks for the quick turnaround. I haven't looked at the image yet but I'll let you know asap. Meanwhile, you made me think of one glaring omission in the submission requirements. All contributors, please note: Please include a list of any freestuff you use and, if you wish, any stuff you made yourself. I won't include credits for bought stuff unless you're the creator but it's only fair to tip the hat to our freestuff contributors and get recognition for your own work. And now, back to our regular broadcasts...

Yeah this looks like so much fun!

Got it Paul, sounds like fun!!!!!!!!!!!!