Environment Backdrop question
cosmo71
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Is it possible to "lock" the environment backdrop after turning it of "on"
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No, the image just "floats" in virtual space. If you need to control angle and size of your background than you need to add a backdrop prop and apply the image to that.
Yeah, I really wish there was some easy in-app 'offset' for backdrops. Meh
And sizing/shaping - I'd like to be able to add a landscape-shaped backdrop photo to a portrait-shaped render (and vice versa) without it stretching/squishing to the render size.
Unless there is a way to do this that I haven't found???
The Environment pane options menu (rectangle with horizontal lines in the upper corner) has an option to force the render dimensions or render aspect ratio to match the background image.
Yes, but I'd like my render dimensions and aspect ratio to stay the way I want them, and the backdrop to work more like an image on a primitive plane but without the shadows?
Daz 4.9 now has the Layered image editor. If you click on the icon to select the background picture, one of the options is layered image editor. There are several tools that are specificially helpful in this case. Offset, scale and gamma are available and may be all that you need.
A different option is to merge the images in your post work editor, such as photoshop elements or the under-rated free editor GIMP. 1. Render the image as a .png without a backdrop. 2. Load your backdrop into your image editor. 3. Layer the rendered image over your selected backdrop image. That way you can do all the color balancing, offset and resize, gamma correction and edge blending of the backdrop with the editor tools.