Does anyone know how to make pre-rendered backgrounds (like in resident evil) without going through lots of code? I have Maya 4.5 Unlimited and 3D Studio Max in which I want to make the backgrounds with. Can anyone help me?

One way I could think of is maybe using invisible but unpassible 3d blocks for the boundaries, ya know shape the blocks to the shapes of what is in the pre-rendered? that might work unless you walk behind stuff too Hmmmmm hey email me, maybe we can figure something out together

for that you would need to layer 32 bit tga with alpha channels.