I downloaded 3d nerds easy backdrop (which is supposed to be an "easy backdrop" tool that you can ad your own pictures to).  I use Daz Studio - the blank back drop loads, but the image files will not.  They are there, but do nothing.... I sent an email to nerd3d a week or so ago but have recieved no reply.  I believe it was a freebie, it is not in my account, but I also can not find it here when searching....

nope never heard of that one, but

maybe you can use one of these till he gets back to you

http://pub12.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=974621624&frmid=7878&msgid=848140&cmd=show

theres also a tut on usage in studio in anouther thread in the same place.

 

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Well thanks. enjoyed getting lost in your links and found a few things that will be helpful.  I will try to figure out an item I found in there, though it says "add you own photos through posers' cloth room".... which is never a good sign, I am a DS user.  But thanks again, do appreciate the response.

I expect it says "Poser's Material Room". I would imagine you can easily add new images through the Surfaces palette in DS - open it (View>Tabs>Surfaces), switch to the Surface selection tool (Tools>Surface selection) and click on the backdrop; now in the Surfaces palette click on the bar under the Difuse colour colour picker bar (it may already have an image name if the item loads textured) and pick an image that came with the item or one of your own that matches the requirements in the readme; that should do the job, at least at a basic level, so just switch back to your regular posing tool 9Tools menu, or use one of the toolbar buttons) and carry on as usual.

Thanks Richard - I'll give it a shot.

yes if you go here

http://pub12.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=974621624&frmid=7878

and look for the using backgrounds tut you shouldn't have any problems

 

www.bloodyrosesdesigns.com

 

http://www.aldaraproject.com/aldara/

http://www.dreamslayervisions.com

SSweet -

Thanks, I checked that out - but didn't even need it, your backgrounds worked fine for me "as adveritsed".  Nice work, will be great for some fantasy type scenes.

Richard,

I followed your instructions re Nerd 3D's stuff, but there are only png files showing up in my runtime - they load in the above method, but are only thumbnail resolution.  So I searched through windows and found files with a MT5 extension ... They don't work.  I googled it and apparently it is some sort of poser file - It says you can simply rename the file to PZ2 to use in poser, but guess what, that don't work either.  Studio is looking for an image file (jpg or something).  I also tried simply renaming one of them to a JPG, and of course that didn't work either.  Any other ideas?  Or do I just need to delete this stuff out of my runtime?

edited to add:  There are also some .DS files in the same folder corresponding to all the png files....

Attached Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aAVisKCf20

Nerd3d has a tutorial on youtube for Daz users.

Ahhhh  Thank you, I was over analyzing again!  Just a question of pressing the right buttons (isn't it always?).

Thanks you everyone - appreciate the help.

In general texture files will be in Runtimetexturessomefolder. The pngs in the library folder are just the thumbnails that appear in the Content palette. Poser material files can be converted to pz2s, but you do need to make some very minor edits as well as changing the extension. How useful they will be varies by how much fancy stuff was done in the Material Room, as with any Poser material setting.

Thanks for the video on the deluxe backdrop model, as I have it, and haven't reallys used it. 

Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too!  Dragon Mischief Art

your welcome

www.bloodyrosesdesigns.com

 

http://www.aldaraproject.com/aldara/

http://www.dreamslayervisions.com