It looks interesting, but I'm not terribly sure as to what it does: it seems to just composite backgrounds, one on top of the other. Could buyers of it perhaps share their experiences, and even post some renders so I could make my mind up?

It's great for foreground items, such as plants, that you would want in front of your main scene. The results can be quite excellent. It can be hard to figure out though because of its use of transparancies: you can't see what you got until you render. OpenGL view should take care of that little problem.

Well I personally think it is brilliant, you can really get an atmosphere going with all the forground stuff, and it renders so fast, You can add your own backgrounds to it, and forgrounds if you want to and I feel it all come together realy well, here is one of my renders, the other one is Dinner is Served which you can find here in the gallery under earthdweller.

Since there are only P4 and ProPack versions available, is there anything about it that would work less well/not at all in P5?

Not that I know of. Everything I tried with the ProPack versions work fine in P5. But I never use Firefly, so I can't say about that.

Message edited on: 02/27/2005 16:30

As far as I know it uses transparency a lot so you might have to check the Transparency Falloff is set to 0 in poser5, other than that it should work just as well as in P4 & PP.

Heh-heh. Just to avoid any confusion this cool piece of kit is from The Slinger...not me. I'm just plain ol' slinger, and my namesake is obviously the one with the talent ;)

I forgot to say, the problem with Transparency Falloff isn't anything to do with the Foreground Tool itself, it's poser5 that has the problem.