Composite Images
Composite shots are created by overlaying mostly transparent images of each model on top of a picture of the given location. These location pictures can be found in the locations folder for reference.
The render_toolkit.zip file contains all the data you will need to create composite shots in each locations.
Assuming you already have loaded your model in the correct environment to do a normal render, follow the following steps to create a composite render:
- Move your model to her assigned playing spot in the room and face her towards the card pile
- Adjust her so she is looking at the cards or some other imaginary player
- Load the composite render preset.
- Hide the room group
- Hide all the lights in the model group (bedroom and lounge only)
- Un-hide the composite group
- Move the rear composite spotlight to above and behind your model and point it at her. (bedroom and lounge only) (do not ever change anything else in the composite group though or it won't match the image it is being overlaid on)
- Make sure there is no environment backdrop(beach and bedroom only)
- Switch view to the composite camera
- Make sure you are rendering a png, and include "_composite" in the file name.
- Render! (good news: these only take a few minutes)
The result should be a 2200x1238 mostly transparent picture of only your model and her shadow.
If part of your opponent image should be obscured by the table (beach and lounge locations), use the included mask file in photoshop to cut out the parts of your image that should have been hidden by the table.
Once you have your rendered composite image, you can place it in the same game folder as your regular images.
Testing composites can be made a bit easier by adding the following line to your settings.properties file:
minCompositePlayers=1
This will allow showing composites when there is only one opponent in the game.