Peacer opened this issue on Mar 24, 2006 ยท 6 posts
Peacer posted Fri, 24 March 2006 at 11:34 PM
Now obviously I don't know of a way to literally bring a Terragen landscape directly into Poser (besides exporting the terrain file as an .OBJ). What I want to do, however, is to render Terragen backgrounds, and texture those to standard props in Poser. What results is Poser in the foreground (characters and a similar ground mesh), and a beautiful Terragen landscape in the background (Terragen textured to a prop). Now, my question is this: how could I create a complete 360 degree panoramic texture in Poser? Is it feasible, or perhaps there's a way to cheat the effect? Or maybe is there a dome to place over the set which can be textured from the inside (at high resolution)? The reason the Terragen landscapes need to be textured is because obviously I will be having camera movements, so the background cannot be static. I really don't have the money or the time to indulge in a professional landscaping program, not to mention Terragen produces such fantastic results as-is. My animation project requires a lot of outdoor environments, thus I need photorealistic terrain just for this. So besides that, does anyone have any tips or alternative ideas for what I'm trying to accomplish? One thing I am worried about is being able to notice the transition line at which the 3D Poser ground ends, and the 2D Terragen texture begins (Perhaps just make the 3D ground as big as possible and avoid the birdeye perspectives?). And, of course, the wide shots will be completely Terragen with Poser characters rendered on top (along with ground shadows, etc). Thanks for your time.