Fuzzy Ground Image after Rendering

Does anyone know of a way to "render" a model of a building BUT NOT have a color image of the ground rendered. For example, I often use SketchUp to model buildings and have the model sitting ontop of a color image of the location (from Google Earth, or BING, etc). When rendered, the photo becomes pixellated / fuzzy. Is there for IRender nXt to ignore the color image and only render the building? I've attached a rendered image for an example.

I am using the full version.

Thanks. Paul

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on August 14, 2012 at 4:50pm

I don't know of a quick way to do it.

You could obviously hide the image when you render, or select everything but the image and use Render Selection to skip the image.

If you explode the image, which turns it into a face with the image as its material, then you could use the IRender Object Properties dialog to make it invisible in the rendering. That does what you want to do.

If it's the only image in the model, you could set the offset on the image to be to 1000 feet and it would be way up in the sky and out of sight!

We'll have to add the ability to add those object properties, at least "Invisible", to images as well as faces. That's probably the best solution.