you are the best!!!

LOL so are you! <3

This is a great render my friend well done an excellent scene indeed

Thanks so much!

I wish I could help you and tell you why Daz did that.. but 99% of all my images use 3d models for backgrounds, hills trees, buildings ect.. also and even sky domes using my sky pics ect in most.. I have never had that problem pop up... at any rate way cool render!

Thanks for the offer, though--I need to just experiment and see what works and what doesn't--and I need to play with sky domes, too! Thank you for commenting!

Wonderful scene and very creative!

Thank you! :D

Nice to see someone bring a new twist to an old story!

I have never seen that background problem; it sounds a bit annoying.

Yeah, it sounds like a pain to me :D This was the first time I noticed it, I think it might be what I did with the lights--I just used the environmental lighting and maybe I should have dropped in a supplemental one..or loaded in the background as a .hdr source as well as a background. Still learning so much!

A marvelous job on this my friend. Wonder if she can draw that sword.

I don't know--she might need a pencil to draw it! hehe! Thank you too!

She needs to be careful with that 'chosen one' thing... It didn't work out so well for Anakin Skywalker...

A fantastic image, Lynn! I usually go the composite route as well, although I just did a series of experimental images with rendered backgrounds in Poser. Haven't tried it in DS yet.

Poser has always behaved so well for me with backgrounds--I love using them there! I love your complex images, by the way-- they are so fun to look at!

Excellent

Thank you Anita! <3

Marvelous work!

Thank you, Tery!

Great scene! Excellent work!

Thank you so much!<3

I love the feel to this, so stark and bleak and the sword looks very cool. I use image backgrounds all the time and I haven't had a problem with it rendering with the checker pattern, I have had Daz do that to the whole image sometimes though. I still like to use the one sided square out of poser to display the image on rather than the daz's background option so maybe that's a ways around the problem?

What a great idea! And that makes it easier to place where I want it too--thank you so much!!

outstanding scene. I see constant quality renders from studio for cars, but not enough for an old man to learn a new trick

I have to confess I tend to render people in DS and everything else in Poser. Apparently you can export people from DS as statues (like we use to do with Poser and Bryce) and I might give that a try too. I still love how the lights work in Poser! And how fast the renders are :D

DS is still a mystery to me. I spend far too much time trying to find things because of the was DS has it's hierarchy set up for products not purchased from DAZ. I often make several renders, always save each render as a PNG which keeps a clean background. It's much faster and easier to compile every render on layers in PS. Great job here btw! ; )

Well, that comment reformatted what I wrote, so here is a screen cap. The "My Library" is for content you generate within DS, like saved scenes, poses and characters, but you don't have to save them this way, you can save them into whatever folder you want.

I ended up unzipping my Rosity products into a holding pen and then manually placing them in DS, that makes most things show up. I sort of like having all the hair, characters and clothing packed under the figure it belongs with, that makes sense to me. My problem is with stuff I have bought from Daz being "lost" in the Smart Content tab, because that stuff ain't smart :D You can see from my screen cap the stub "Content" folder that should be deleted, and HellFish Studios that needs to be put down with the character it goes with (I think it's a cyborg add on). Building a render with layers is easier on the computer, too, I think! And thank you!

Great looking scene, Lynn.

Thank you!! <3