Only problem is that its an avi that im rendering, not just a static or else that would have been my 1st point of call. Well I think I can say im thick, I just changed the static background image again in photoshop and it worked fine, however its a bit pixalated so I might try something else. Supposedly After Effects is good for taking out backgrounds as Ive seen afew tutorials on removing bluescreen so I may try rendering it with a blue background then remove it in AE instead. Chris

anybody ?? :-(

hmmm, too much choice as usual !! Im liking the DAZ3D Millenium - it seems the simplest to use, which is kinda what I need at the moment plus the 360 degree view. The examples on the daz site seems rather good. Chris

RDNA Microcosm is similar right ? The shots im doing are pretty much close ups, so I guess I might get away with it but a 360 view is prefered. I'll have a look at the RDNA site next... Chris

Ok cool, cheers for that. Is it then possible to make the background move round the scene as the camera moves, thus giving the impression that the character is surrounded by 360 background, as long as you dont pass the 120 degrees ? Chris

WOO HOO - It worked, thanks guys !

Excellent, gonna try this once I get home from college tonight. Fingers crossed !!

You'll have to scale up by a factor of 250 when importing into Max. Poser .OBJs are extremely small. Ah ! That would explain why I couldnt see anything. Do the poser textures transfer over as well or does that have to be done manually ?? Chris

You'll have to scale up by a factor of 250 when importing into Max. Poser .OBJs are extremely small. Ah ! That would explain why I couldnt see anything. Do the poser textures transfer over as well or does that have to be done manually ?? Chris

I downloaded the Habware plugin, and exported the file as an obj, but when I took into max there was nothing there ??? Ach - I thought that pro pack was something recent, ah well that idea goes out the window. Are you getting sick of answering all my newb questions yet little dragon ? ;-) Thinking I might just have to splash the cash and give the old credit card a bashing at get the Reiss Studio software... On a different subject, this forum has been the most helpful and friendly of all the poser forums Ive used - nice to see for a change. Chris

Ah, well you can scrap the 1st bit - seems like I may have got it mixed up with Rhino - thats for clearing that up Little_Dragon. Still need some info on the Pro pack and adding backgrounds if anybody can help.... Chris

Ah thats the one I looked at before Tyger_purr - just a bit skull cap like for me. Back to the drawing board...

Thats cool then, I was kinda worried for a moment. I recently had to render a 10 sec kitchen flythrough sequence in 3D Max, and it was roughly about 10 hours with all the reflections etc. Well my folks said that I could take there machine, so hopefully that will free up the laptop for creating and all the rendering can be done on the base unit. Im looking to add a background into the scene anyway using something Ive created in 3d max, the tutor told me there was a free plugin download from e-frontier that I could use to take my poser files into max, had a look but it looks like it costs a couple of hundred bucks ???? Cheers Chris

You got a pic of Maya Dide there pakled ?? or can u tell me where to go pls m8 ? Polymage 3D, Im presuming that a website BDC. Chris