LrdSatyr8 opened this issue on May 09, 2002 ยท 9 posts
LrdSatyr8 posted Fri, 10 May 2002 at 5:35 AM
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=156764&Start=13&Artist=LrdSatyr8&ByArtist=Yes
Well thanks all for the input. Was kinda disappointed to find this out thou. I mapped a plane with the image I wanted to use for the backdrop, but hte biggest problem with that is that it catches shadows and light and I didn't want that to happen at all. I wanted to make the scene I was working on merge into a picture. Gives it a much more photo-realistic look when you can model something into a photograph and make the rendering match the lighting and atmosphere of the photo itself until you can't tell the difference between what is real and what isn't. I was able to do this in Truespace by setting the background image to a photo. My original Lighthouse picture in my gallery (see link) was done this way. Saved a bunch of time in trying to get the perfect cloud or the right reflection on the water etc. In that pic, the entire background is a photograph... I mapped a plane with a high transparency and a good bump over the existing water in the photo to catch the reflection of the lighthouse itself. The rest was just matching the lightsource. I did see something about a background image in the options... does that do what I need to do?