Thanks in my early days I used DS just to have steady characters fro my stories and simply used to render them as PNG files and merge them the BG pics I took with my digicam http://fav.me/d38yjr8  http://fav.me/d38wzkz  then got into full render with the base lights LDP2 UE & now Reality Lux. I like the fact that Lux provides quality so that I can merge them to forret BG digital pics to fill the BG with rendered alpha forground I may experiment with this method again since I can alpha render quality characters..