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Subject: Ground Shadows

arrow1 opened this issue on Jul 23, 2002 · 4 posts
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arrow1 ( ) posted Tue, 23 July 2002 at 4:08 AM · edited Sun, 27 October 2024 at 1:07 AM

I have been trying to follow a tutorial on superimposing pictures on a background in Poser.The problem is what it says is suppose to happen doesn't.I am suppose to pose my figures and import my background.No problems here!The next phase is not explained properly.It SAYS " ALIGN THE GROUND PLANE IN POSER TO THE ONE IN YOUR PICTURE.(Can anyone tell me how to do this?)Then it goes on to say to line up the lighting with the shadows in the picture.(how do you do this?)Also after rendering image and figures to turn the ground plane back on and and make sure it is white and render with shadows. It renders alright,but with no ground shadows which are visible on poser screen.Can anyone describe in very plain terms that a dummy like me can understand,How I can get ground shadows into my pictures in Poser pro pack.Cheers arrow1

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tasmanet ( ) posted Tue, 23 July 2002 at 8:37 AM

Then it goes on to say to line up the lighting with the shadows in the picture.(how do you do this?) Well that just means to fiddle with the Lighting control to get your model / figure shadows to more or less line up to the ones in the background image

lhiannan ( ) posted Tue, 23 July 2002 at 10:21 AM

Those ground plane shadows are not real shadows, they are only there for alignment purposes. There has to be some object there for shadows to be cast on. When I use a backdrop, I postwork shadows in. Heck, even when I render in a full scene with real floor and such, I still have to work on the shadows. Poser doesn't like casting shadows much at all.

arrow1 ( ) posted Tue, 23 July 2002 at 4:31 PM

Many Thanks

Custom built computer 128 gigs RAM,4 Terabyte hard drive, NVIDIA RTX 4060 TI 16 GIG Gig,12 TH Generation Intel i9, Dual LG Screens, 0/S Windows 11, networked to a Special 12th Generation intel I9, RTX 3060 12 Gig, Windows 11,64 gigs RAM, Dual Phillips Screens, 2 Terabyte SSD Hard Drive plus 1 Terabyte Hard Drive,3rd Computer intel i7,128 gigs ram, Graphics Card NVIDIA RTX 3060 Gig,1 Terabyte Hard Drive, OS Windows 11 64 Bit Dual Samsung Syncmaster 226bw Screens.Plus INFINITY Laptop 64 Bit,64 gigs RAM.Intel i9 chip.Windows 11 Pro and Ultimate. 4 x 2 Terrabyte Hard Drives and 2 x 2 Terrabyte external USB Hard drives. All Posers from 4 to Poser 2010 and 2012, 2014. Poser 11 and 12, 13, Hexagon 2.5 64 Bit, Carrara 8.5 Pro 64 bit, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Creative Production Suite. Adobe Photoshop CC 2024, Vue 10 and 10.5 Infinite Vue 11 14.5 Infinite plus Vue 15 and 16 Infinite, Vue 2023 and 2024, Plant Catologue, DAZ Studio 4.23, iClone 7 with 3DXchange and Character Creator 3, Nikon D3 Camera with several lenses.  Nikon Z 6 ii and Z5. 180-600mm lens, 24-70 mm lens with adapter.Just added 2x 2 Terrabyte portable hard drives.

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