Please help me out. The Pro Pack 5 page handbook and the Pro Pack software help give a 4 line directive that's all but useless to a non-animator. I just wanna make motion blur stills with Poser Pro Pack. Why did Curious Labs make it so hard to figure out? I clicked on motion blur document and motion blur in the editor, made the movie and what the hell are you supposed to do? I'm staring at Poser. It's staring at me. It should be such an easy thing to do and CL made it so damn nebulous to figure out without CLEAR step-by-step directions. I'll admit I'm slow. Can someone give me a walk through? I'd really appreciate it. rammed out

Before I get spammed - I meant the 5 page handbook of Poser 4 Pro Pack - not Poser "5" pro Pack - I'm slow but not that slow :P

depending on what result your after, if render/motion blur doesn't give you the desired result, you can set up your scene, run up the counter a few frames, then position the parts you want blurred, then render that frame and then motion blur it, it will take some expearamenting, but it works :)

4th party is right, I think. Motion blur is blur caused by motion, and I think ProPack needs motion (ie. animation) to be part of the renderproject before it can blur. Thus, even though you want to make a still render, that still must be part of an animation (fx. one frame in the middle of, say, a 5-frame animation) to be blurred. You could experiment with making the still you want part af a small animation, maybe... With a still scene, simply clicking 'motion blur document' won't motion blur anything since there is no motion to blur...There has got to be motion. Experiment. And post back if you get good results! -Hanz

Right, you need some motion to use motion blur. Set up a little animation in 5 frames, e.g. Don raising his left arm, go to the middle of the animatino and select "Motion Blur Document".

Attached Link: Motion Blur in Poser Pro

For the linked image, I used Poser Pro's motion blur. The visual effect I wanted was for the background to be zooming by and the figure on the bike to be in focus. So I created a 30 frame animation with the background moving from one side of the camera to the other, the further I moved the background the more blur I got. Then I picked a frame with the full background showing as it zoomed by. I then created my movie, but instead of movie format, I chose to export a photoshop doc image. I also had the movie only generate the one frame I wanted. I had set up my image res in the movie settings too. After I had the image I wanted, I added the post effect lens flares. Doug

Sturkwurks example is a great example on how to utilize this technique, check out the link. -Hanz

Thanks so much, everyone! This has been very helpful. I was making animations to get the effect but I was unaware how to pick a single frame to make the motion blur still. I love your picture, Sturkwurk. Sweet idea with moving the background. Thanks so much! You guys are great. ram

I always liked to see images of "fast" things (race cars, bikes, animals etc) where the background was blury but the subject was crisp. Thanks for the compliments, feel free to leave feedback (hint) Doug