Please, can anyone explain why there is no background image in animation when it is exported from Poser. Rendered images also have no background image. I was wandering if  animation can be exported with image background at all...

Thanks!

In the render settings check "Render over" options .

"Render Over
Background Picture" checked

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Please, if anyone had same experience (BUG) can you give me advice how to fix this problem?  I'm in the middle of work and can't figure out why there is no background on exported images and animations. I have checked "Render Over Background Picture" thingy and still no results... I have changed render settings couple of times and results are the same... Is it something with FireFly render? Bug, or I am missing something?

put the image on a flat plane and use that as the background..

Quote - put the image on a flat plane and use that as the background..

That is not a solution. My question was if anyone has a solution for this issue when Poser renders are not including background images even when background is selected to be included in render.
Reinstalling application doesn't help. I don't wanna PLANE instead of background. Thank you.

Ok now!

When I save render as PNG or  TIFF  images or as animation-BACKGROUND IS NOT VISIBLE.
BUT, when I export RENDER as JPG or PSD BACKGROUND IS VISIBLE!?

Any ideas?

THANKS!

PNG and TIFF routinely will not save a background when exporting the image.  That is the nature of the beast at the moment.  Someone else may have an explanation why it is so.

Thank you Superman Sir.
At least I can stop banging my head on keybord...:)

THAT'S IT!!!
I had enough of POSER8!!!
All animations that I export, no matter if I use FIREFLY or PREVIEW render don't have background image, BUT when I try to import avi to VEGAS or PREMIERE - GRAY background is aplied!!!
I have tried everything, all options, deleting material options  for background, switching codecs, trying all RENDER OVER options and still there is gray background instead of transparent. Pictures have transparent backrounds, animations don't. AAAAGH!

I AM definitely switching back to Poser PRO. No matter how many times it crashes, bugs with version 8 are really to much.

Thank you all (two of you) for responding to my post.

Different problems to what I was having.  So still more problems. this one with no apparent work around.. Poser was once upon a time a totally self contained program.  Now.Poser calls on outside software to perform certain functions..   IMO this is where some of the more serious issues are created..

Well, I have installed Poser Pro and tested it. It also has similar issues, but this time exported animation can have picture background, but  no transparent background. Again GRAY background instead of 100% transparency.  Exported PNG pictures still have no background.

And then... I updated graphic card driver from version 190.0 to new 191.07 (Nvidia) and my Poser8 installation went even more crazy...You know that little slider under render settings called PREVIEW TEXTURE RESOLUTION, when it's set to maximum of 4096? Well it went crazy, showing me 4096 but there is no slider. When I try to move invisible slider little bastard reappears, but max number is no more 4096 but 2048 instead, and that's it. Can't revert it to 4096.

REASON for all of this is definitely INCOMPATIBILITY of POSER with NEW Nvidia graphic card DRIVERS.
All my previous animations that I have produced in POSER PRO with old drivers were working fine ( transparent background and image background with no problems). If I could only remember what version of drivers I was using...

Ok, I have uninstalled and reinstalled new Nvidia drivers, reinstalled NET framework, C++2008 and finally reinstalled Poser8. It works for now. It seems that Poser CAN'T export movie with transparent background at all.(????) At least I have managed to export series of PNG images with transparent backruond (by turning off OpenGL mode) instead of AVI file. I will have to combine them into one sequence in Vegas. It seem that it's only solution. Pitty...