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?

No sir, I rendered that image.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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: