I discovered new landscape generating software Flowscape earlier on after reading about it on Novica's Art Studio thread. As I mentioned on there, I have been unable to leave the program alone since purchasing it (it's just $10 - $12 to us over-taxed people in Europe, and worth every cent). Anyway, while not doing a single stroke of work all day, I've been thinking about how I can integrate Flowscape into my Daz doings and use it in the creation of promos and book covers etc. The software creator mentioned somewhere about a 360 degree camera being a possible future inclusion, but it's not there yet. Then I considered making an infinite cove or something like it in Blender... but wait - not until I've finished creating this Flowscape landscape. And this one. Oh, and this one. After creating my gazillionth landscape today, I remembered the Daz 'Backdrop' under the Environment tab. I hardly ever use this but couldn't believe I'd forgotten it and was stunned enough to drag myself away from Flowscape and off to Daz Studio to see how my landscape images would do.

I thought I'd give it a mention here as a reminder for anyone else who has forgotten the Daz Studio environment tab/backdrops, partly because I can then claim to have done at least one useful thing today, and partly because I felt slightly guilty earlier for using Daz's space to rave about something that I didn't see an immediate use in Studio for.

First, I began with the image that I posted in Novica's thread...

Hit by a bout of bone-idle-itis, I hadn't bothered to crop it square (your screensize is Flowscape's only output at the moment). This meant that I had to click to get the dropdown menu and 'Adjust Aspect Ratio To Backdrop', as the landscape image would otherwise have just been squashed by the square or portrait dimensions that I typically use.

When positioning a model, it really helps to have 'Show Floor' ticked in the viewport window dropdown too. This makes it easy to align the view of the model with the view of the landscape. I've used the iRay Sun Dial (My Daz 3D Library/Render Presets/Iray) to help line the shadows in Studio up with the image behind it.

Since Genesis can't walk on water (maybe in version 9!), I have put her in a boat here, with the bottom of it ouside the image.

I had no idea when I made that image what I was going to do with it, but it's easy enough to leave space on the ground to place a figure if you give it some thought.

These were put together pretty quickly for the purposes of the thread. If I were doing it with the quality of the final image in mind I would probably line the Studio content and lighting up with the backdrop as described, then take the backdrop away and render as a transparent png so that I could layer the image with the backdrop for ease of postwork. I would almost certainly shake myself up enough to do some actual cropping as well :)