I'm thinking of making an animation background to incorporate into my 2D software.  Basically, I would be superimposing my characters over the resulting video file.  What I want to do is use a series of picture images to create a sort of "hall of memories," with the images as the walls and the camera tracking through it.  Is this possible to do, or do I need to convert the images to some sort of 3D object with the image on one of the faces to do this?

There's two way you can display 2d images in the Poser scene. The easiest is to use the image as the background picture in Poser.

- Hide the ground in Poser [ctrl]+G

- File > Import > Background picture

- The background will fill the view port.

I don't think that's what you're after though. The other way is "Billboards"

- From Poser props library fine the "One sided square" and add it to the scene

- Switch to the materials room

- Drag n' drop the image you want to use into the material editor window.

- Connect a wire between the image and the diffuse color input.

- Set the specular color to black (unless you want a shine on the image)

If you wan the image to glow like a TV set, emitting their own light. Plug the image map into the Ambient color, set it to white and it's value to 1.0. Set every thing else to black.

You will need to adjust the height and width scale of the prop so it matches the aspect ratio of your image so it won't look stretched.

nerd posted at 3:00 PM Wed, 28 February 2024 - #4482070

The other way is "Billboards".

Yes!  Thank you!  I can't wait to play with this this weekend!  Thank you sincerely for your help.