Quote - *By background photo, do you mean something different than all the ones I've posted so far, something less than a full sphere? Every outdoor one I did was lit by a photo.

• Yep. What I mean is there any chance you could show us an image where the character is rendered against a background photo. And the IDL lighting has been created from that photgraph as well.

Like how we do Image Based Lighting in P6.

I was sort of with you until the last sentence. Image Based Lighting is 360 degree, and still is. It has never been workable with a background photo alone.

I mentioned the environment sphere - a 360 degree photograph is used, not just a background. If you use the environment sphere OR a matching IBL probe, you will get the 360 degree lighting.

You can still use IBL as the primary source of indirect illumination. Then Poser 8 will further bounce that around within the objects in the scene.

Background photos never have contributed to lighting. If I render with a lit rectangle behind a figure, or a light behind the figure, and no other light sources or objects in front of the figure, the figure will be black in front, as in real life.

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