Hey BB.. just had a question/thought... What's the best node setup to use an image as background? I'm sure you prolly have a trick or two up your sleeve about that setup.

Wouldn't a good default load setup have the ao applied on the ground plane, and a graphic backdrop with whatever node mojo you'd have for it?

Granted, no two renders are the same, but a good starting point would be useful.

Hmmm..... can a node setup be done for a proceedural gradiant "sky" effect? (I lightwave, you can define the highest sky point as one color, the bottom most as another color, and adjust the blend point with a setting. Maybe a sky gradiant like that could be setup in poser, with a number of gradiant colors, so you could simulate, say  a sunset "sky"? That could possibly even be hooked into somehow as additional base sky "lighting" of objects?

The moon thing got me wondering is a gradiant could be setup for the sky, rather then loading a prop, and faking a gradiant sky with that.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.