I used to be able to render my scenes including the background picture in Poser 6. I just tried to do it now and it renders the background image as a square!

The document window size is 850x450 and so is the background image. Do you have any idea why it does that? It renders the scene 850x450 but the bkg image shows up in the back as a square in the center.

I have that same proble, and I'd also like to know what the solution is.

have you gone into "render dimensions" then clicked "render to exact resolution" then clicked the "match document window" tab, if not, try that, might work, might not, don't know.

Yes, I tried that. I have Match document window as default but when it didn't work, I tried Render to exact resolution. Same results. ;o(

have you got Sr3 installed? as i stuck with Sr2 'cause everything seemed to work so i didn't see the point of fixing what ain't broke! so maybe if you have Sr3 that may be a bug/side-effect of it. ( i have a memory of hearing something along those lines, a while ago)

but i don't really ever render over backgrounds anymore, i always export my render out as a .jpg and .png, the .jpg is incase i lose some hair detail with the .png, and the .png is what i place over my background, that way i get to do more overlay effects and such in photoshop.

have you tried to double the render dimensions, like 1700 x 900 at 300dpi, then adjust it in your image editor, to the size you want?

Yes I think I have installed SR3 on this computer... I hadn't installed it on my own computer now that you remind me. I should not have installed it on this one either. ;o(

Is there a way to uninstall ONLY SR3 and not Poser?

And yes I tried resizing, changing the image resolution, etc. Everything I could think of. And I know it worked on my own computer so you might be right about SR3.

 Hmmm ...I have that problem also...LOL...Need to look more into it now.

And did you install SR3 too?

Are you sure you have the square  sized the same  as your poser window?

Yes Acadia. My document window size is 850x550 pixels and I resized the image to 850x550 before importing it in Poser. As you can see on artisthead render, Poser rendered the scene rectangular as it should but the background image shows up as a square in the center. Exactly my problem.

I was using a image 3264x2448 ....for some reason it gets cropped even with smaller pictures..

P6 with SR3. Works fine for me.

Well guys, I don't know about you but I uninstalled Poser 6, re-installed, installed SR1 and SR2 and NOT SR3... and it works fine now. So no more SR3 for me! ;o))

Strange. I tried both ways of loading the BG image.

1. use the BG image import option with letting poser change window size to match BG image and not letting poser change the window size.

2. just doing it all by hand in the material room.

P6 SR3 and it all works fine. I did notice that using the import method that the auto fit is not checked. Sorry I can't reproduce what you are going through.

The only fix I can think of is to use a flat plane and scale it to the image size. 600 X 800 = scaling the plane up 600% X 800% and so on.

Edit to say that SR3 should not be the problem but who knows, everyones computer seems to work differently.

I was just about to post on this same subject, I just noticed it today.   All background pictures get shrunk during Render.
I have a Macintosh G5 running OS 10.4.8 and Poser 6 SR3 and it has worked fine in the past.  But then again I dont know what version of 10.4.x I was running or what SR I had when it last worked.

Well, crap.  Looks like a reinstall is in the cards, as I have work to do.

I'll let you know what happens.

Well try it with SR1 and SR2 installed and if it works, don't install SR3. ;o))

Reintalling Poser 6 and SR2 fixed it, got the background picture looking like it should.

Good! Same here. And I'm NOT installing SR3 just to see if that is what caused the problem before. loll

See, now I've had SR3 installed since it came out and never had a problem til just recently as well. Is there some kinda gremlin code in SR3 that say's let's fuck up their backgrounds after April 1st 2007?!?!? Autofit worked fine on Background image for me up until just this past week actually, but searching for old threads where I'd seen a solution brought up this thread. I could have sworn there was another setting elsewhere that helped with autofit but I don't remember it now.

I've found a fix for this problem, at last.
As I render in widescreen, it's been really pissing me off.
All I did was increase the maximum texture size for the Firefly render in Render Settings.
Bingo!
Quite logical really.
The default size is set too low.

Quick question? Where is the max texture size in Firefly render settings? I looked everywhere in there and didnt find it...... Having same prob over here with the background image......

MidnightStorm, are you using Poser 7?   The image from ashley9803 is from Poser 6 and the Firefly render settings windows (and choices) are not the same.