Hi all.

I'm relatively new to Poser and wanted to ask for some advice. I'd like to be able to pose and render out still images of figures as black sillouhettes on a flat background. Is there a fairly straightforward way to do this please?

Like so?

Thanks for reply. Yes! With a different model, but that look.

Delete everything from the startup scene if it has anything in it (lights too!), hide ground (Ctrl+G), load figure, pose, render. It will render like that.

Isn't that effect a preview window setting?

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So is that TTFN or TANSTAAFL?

No sir, I rendered that image.

Rhia474 posted at 9:54 PM Thu, 16 March 2023 - #4458789

Delete everything from the startup scene if it has anything in it (lights too!), hide ground (Ctrl+G), load figure, pose, render. It will render like that.

Thanks for the reply. Will it preview looking like that, pre-render? What I need is to be able to see what the sillouhette will look like while I am posing it, not just once it is rendered.

You can add lights to see, just will need to switch them off before rendering. 

I don't know if this still works but in Poser 11 - and earlier versions - you can add lights to the scene that won't illuminate the render, but will illuminate the scene for posing stuff.  I've used them quite a lot in low light scenes.

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Here's a nice trick that I've probably read here, on Rendo's forums, long ago.
My poses lights is a set of 3 infinite lights, without shadow, and setup this way:

Permanently lighting up the scene in the Poses room, non-existent at render time

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That's exactly what I meant.  Nice one, Y-Phil.

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Thanks guys, I will give it a bash!

mrjayjayjay posted at 8:02 PM Sat, 18 March 2023 - #4459007

Rhia474 posted at 9:54 PM Thu, 16 March 2023 - #4458789

Delete everything from the startup scene if it has anything in it (lights too!), hide ground (Ctrl+G), load figure, pose, render. It will render like that.

Thanks for the reply. Will it preview looking like that, pre-render? What I need is to be able to see what the sillouhette will look like while I am posing it, not just once it is rendered.

I don't know P11 but P12 has a document style for that, called "Silhouette" (CTRL+1), maybe it helps you too, in the example below you see the preview window with the ground hidden:

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evargas posted at 12:16 PM Mon, 20 March 2023 - #4459105

mrjayjayjay posted at 8:02 PM Sat, 18 March 2023 - #4459007

Rhia474 posted at 9:54 PM Thu, 16 March 2023 - #4458789

Delete everything from the startup scene if it has anything in it (lights too!), hide ground (Ctrl+G), load figure, pose, render. It will render like that.

Thanks for the reply. Will it preview looking like that, pre-render? What I need is to be able to see what the sillouhette will look like while I am posing it, not just once it is rendered.

I don't know P11 but P12 has a document style for that, called "Silhouette" (CTRL+1), maybe it helps you too, in the example below you see the preview window with the ground hidden:

Like I said earlier

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket
Charles Péguy

 Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do;they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart
Walter Savage Landor

So is that TTFN or TANSTAAFL?