Hello, I imported a picture of a cabin and wanted to show the place overrun with chipmonks. I placed some animals then did a test render. The render shrunk the imported background picture so the placement of the chipmonks is all wrong. The imported background image is a jpeg. What is happening? Any suggestions would be welcome. A pic of the rendder showing the problem is attached. Tim

Did you render at the same aspect ratio as your preview? And when you imported the background and Poser asked if it should resize the window to fit, what did you answer? Poser 5? I think I remember a problem with Poser 5 and background images, but I'm not sure if a cure was found...

I am on Poser 6 When I imported the pic it did ask if the window should be resized to meet the pic size and I said yes. I have been successful with this before, for some reason this case is not working though.

Your render has to be the same or slightly larger than the bg in p6. In P5 it would resize auto. Not anymore...

Hi,Tim. I'am facing exactly the same problem! I'am a newbie, work with Poser 6 and all the recent updates, on a Mac OS 10.4.6. Try to learn Poser through the Book Practical Poser 6. Seems to be more an instruction for Window machine users though. I have still not found the solution to the render size problem. Have you? Would appreciate to hear from you if you did find the answer! SY, Ron Zwart.

A work-around...

1. Clear the background (entirely)..

2. Load a 1-sided square (from props library).

3. Scale square to the exact same size (in pixels) as the pic (in X & Y, Z is obviously not important).
   4 . Go to Materials Room (advanced) and apply your pic to the square in the AMBIENT channel. clear everything else to black. <-- this is an IMPORTANT step
   5.  Back to the Pose room,  move the square a long way back in Z, then use the top "scale"  wheel on the square to get your pic to fill the background (the reason for doing this is to avoid unwanted shadows)

4. test-render....

You may have to tweak...

Using a 1-sided prop is often (even in P5)  a better way to get a background...

Cheers,
Diolma
(Happy experimenting,  and I love the basic idea!)

Why don’t you render out the chipmunks as separate images and import them into adobe or something similar as layers and with the tiff format they would have their alpha channels and composite your scene there. You could tweak the colour balances and what not and even distort them to fit. You could fake the shadows and reflections, I don’t’ see how you could do that in poser. Trying to set it up in poser I’d think of as a nightmare.

Funnily enough I find Daz studio more user friendly for posing.