I'm having trouble getting an image for my background. I went in the material room, selected the background, attached a node to the first selection, linked my image and all I get is a black background, I tried the same thing using ground. i think that's the way it used to work, but I guess it doesn't anymore.

What software are you using?

Poser 12 and Windows 10

Did you hide the Construct?  That is the only way to view a background image.  Select the Ground prop and under Properties, untick the Visible box.

I'm going to move this to the Poser 12 forum so that more Poser users will see it and might help.

Something else to check is to make sure you don't have Transparent Background checked in your render settings.

Are you trying this?

Or did I misundertand your question?

Had some success with backgrounds, trial and error really. I have no idea how I got it cracked, but it works.

Here is the result in some pictures.

First is the background image loaded with the default Poser settings.

The next one, I guess that the image is sort of wide screen shaped, so I stretched it two and a half times in the U_Scale settings.

After watching the image disappear from left to right on the screen, I decided to give it a minus coordinate and there it was 'all correct'.

Didn't mess with after that, so there maybe there are more options with minus coordinates.

Hope it helps.

Pat :)

That looks like a good solution that can come in handy.  Question: does this work across the board with different image resolutions or do you see setting variations in correlation with image ratios?

hborre

Tried it with different sized images, but all were similar wide screen image sizes.

The one in the picture was 2400 x 1350. I also used a 1200 x 500 and got the same result.

I would say I was using correlation with image ratios without knowing it. But it's a good point you make. Knowing how I did it would help the next time.

Pat :)