Dwight, you can't have a transparent background in Poser - it's always going to render to a colour. What you can do, though, is what picnic suggested - export the final image as a TIFF file (remembering to turn off anti-aliasing - which is where I always go wrong with this method grin). Open this in PS and use the alpha channel to select your wrestler (that's the bit in white) and paste it to your background as a new layer. Feather the edges of the selection slightly so it blends with the background (avoids those crystal clear, razor sharp edges). If you're going to add the white clouds as post work, I'd also do as picnic suggested. Paul

Have you tried bizland.com? They look to be fairly good Paul

Go into file, and then import. There you'll see the option to import a background image into Poser. This image will resize the window to fit the image, or just go into whatever size of window you've selected (dead centered). The background image will then show up exactly the same whichever way you turn your camera. By focusing in tight, you can frame your image so that it needs only a little cropping. You could also apply this to a square prop and place it behind the figure, but that's likely to introduce some distortion to your background. What graphics s/ware are you using? If it's Photoshop (or some other app that supports layers) you could make your background layer 1 in an image and layer the wrester on top. You'd need to chroma-key the b/ground to delete it. (Make the background some colour that isn't in the main image, and select/delete within your graphics app. Make sure you turn off anti-aliasing if you go this route). Another couple of things. You might like to add two red spot lights behind the figure, roughly matching up with the spots in the background image. Match the red colour of the background as best as you can, and aim them in the same direction as the background spots. Also, try using very finely dispersed grey clouds on a black background and using this as a texture for a transparency-mapped square in front of the wrestler. This should give the impression that the dry-ice smog is in front of him as well as behind. Hope this helps some Paul

What are you planning to do with the Poser figure once you have it in MAX? If you are planning on using it as a static figure (i.e. rendering it) in MAX, then you need the HABWare OBJ plugins. These are available from the free stuff section, under utilities. If you are planning on animating the figure in MAX, you would still have to use the HABWare plugins. However, if you are planning on animating in Poser and rendering the animation in MAX, then you really need Konan's MAXPose plugin. There is a demo version on his site, and the full version costs $99 Paul

I'm not 100% certain, but I think that that is Cinema4D format Paul

This is good news, at least Corel are showing some support for Bryce (and for both MAC and PC) Paul

The HABWare OBJ plugins are essential when you're using MAX in conjunction with Poser. The plugins can be found in the free stuff section here - either do a search for habware, or check in the utilities section Paul

LOL - love the idea behind that image :) Viomar is right, not everything has to be built from scratch right at the start. You can get some very interesting results sometimes if you take a sideways look at a prop. When I started, the only things I could create in a 3D modelling programme were... well, let's be kind and call them abstract models :) So, I had to modify existing props to make them do what I couldn't do by modelling. As time went by, I got better at creating stuff to use - although I'm still a long long way from being any good at it. Paul

I dunno, looks pretty good to me Wolf. I've got a couple of scenes in mind where props like this would come in handy Paul

That's a very interesting idea Lyrra, I think you'd probably get more hits with a complete wall section. TIA for all your work :) Paul

Unfortunately, due to (what we believe was) a glitch, the link to Allie's hair went bye-bye. For various reasons, she declined to renew/repost the link. I suggest you e-mail her direct asking for a copy. Paul

I've not seen a blue ribbon prop, but I know of something that might work in its place. Go to the 3D Comic Collective and visit the Warhammer 40K pages. There, amoung some superb models by Ghost you'll find a pack of prop addons for the Terminator. In there is an "Honour" badge which (recoloured) would work. Paul

To upload to the free stuff section you'll need your own website (which you have). Zip up the files along with your readme file and upload it to your website along with the thumbnail. Then go into free stuff and select "upload" from the options - filling in the fields as you go along. Hope this helps Paul

Damn' that's cool Doug. Excellent work on Slade and I see you got the scale-mail finished :) Paul

Excellent, this is very impressive. Paul