[Daz Studio] Quickly create reusable billboards

[@ShootyBear]

This is a great tutorial. I like how you get to business immediately instead of some people who ramble a while to make the video longer. A couple of comments if people haven't done billboards before: 1 - Angle of lighting can make the billboard look weird in a scene. So either think about the angle or make very even lighting on the character for your billboard. Of course, the further away/smaller the image, the less that matters.. 2 - The intensity of lighting of the billboard can make the billboard sort of 'glow' as it doesn't reflect light quite the same as something with actual geometry. I have solved that via darkening the color or the image a bit until it looks more 'natural'.

[@CoyoteSevenFL]

Thanks for the tip on how to make easy billboards. I often do Star Wars based renders and need the various SW alien species as background characters, but no billboards (other than 'generic' aliens) are available anywhere it seems... probably due to Disney taking over the SW universe and suing the crap out of anybody that tries for distribution (even free). Now thanks to your lesson, I can stop using the tedious multi-layer I was doing. And if I do the character in various angles (say 45-60 degrees round about), I can then use them at various points/angles in the background to the main subject without worrying about them "flattening" out. Thanks again!

[@ShawnPowerz]

Nice one dude, hope you're doing well man. Love the Daz vids and your way of simply breaking it down top notch bro.

[@GameDeveloperTraining]

Thanks man. Nice to see you still around :)

[@dirty47]

Thank you very much!

[@Catthyp]

Cool!

[@sumdude4281]

Very helpful. Look forward to trying it out.

[@GameDeveloperTraining]

Have fun!

[@johnbuckeridge4210]

Thanks - brilliant tutorial. One question: what should you save the plane as, in order to make it exportable to Photoshop?

[@GameDeveloperTraining]

I would use PNG format as it saves transparency,

[@Biker65]

Easy enough

[@jenniferpogs2190]

Shit! I can't get my billboard object to show in render view... Any help?! :( I can see it in texture shaded view and it looks right, however. Nothing in rendered iRay view... :( Haha, I'm an idiot! I've fixed it! Sorry! False alarm. Great tutorial mate! :)

[@GameDeveloperTraining]

Glad you figured it out.

[@EvokAi]

I want animated billboards

[@GameDeveloperTraining]

I want an Aston Martin. Looks like we're both out of luck

[@tweedledumart4154]

Great. No need to buy billboards.