Hi all.

I'm afraid I'm the one who is guilty of tasking musikman to create and render all the characters we need for our upcoming movie short. So first off, must say I'm very impressed with the community here. The level of knowledge and the kind assistance that has been provided has been fantastic and very much appreciated.

To throw some light...err no pun intended, on the whole IBL/HDRI requirements that mm has mentioned previously, its really a case of trying to figure out how to get elements made in separate software applications to match. All the scenes in which our characters will be appearing in will be modelled and rendered in trueSpace. The resultant renders/footage will then be inserted either directly into Poser as a backplate or combined as different layers in a compositor. I originally thought that instead of trying to match/transfer complicated light set-ups between trueSpace and Poser, if the renders were produced using the same HDRI image, then all the lighting levels/colours/shadows of the different layers would be a seamless match. Especially in view of the fact that in trueSpace you can eliminate all other light sources so your renders are produced solely on the data provided by the HDRI source.
 

However, having read some of the comments here it would seem Poser is not set-up in the same fashion. Thus, any comments/suggestions/pointers on this matter would be greatly appreciated.