okay....i've been working on a little character, and posed her...yadda, yadda....i loved how she was coming along. then, i started playing with some of my older light sets...i opened her, and, then went to change the lights to something else. every single light set i tried just showed a black, flat figure...maybe a little shading variation, but nothing to write home about....yeah, and NOW, i recall why i never much used that particular set. what causes this? and, how do i fix it? i tried saving her as a new figure, but the lights came along, as well. i came home 4 hours early today...and, totally wanted to finish up, and do a render....grrrr...should have just stayed at work as fruitful as my afternoon was. does poser reverse the lighting to the back, or something? please, if you have one, send me a clue fairy. pop...pop...Poppi!!!

That happens to me every so often too, when I've been playing with the lights for a while within a scene - I always ended up just deleting all the lights, then plunking another light set into the scene. My other prob is when I'm not having that 'black figure' problem - I change a light set but not all the lights from the previous set go away. Why does it do that??

I have this happen quite a bit. It seems whenever I apply an older light set (a P4 or 3; I'm on P5) Try hitting Restore>Lights from the Edit menu. If that doesn't work, you'll probably have to delete each light, then start building a new set, or apply a set. Hope this helps! --silver

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I hate trumpeting about my own babies, but -do you know EC II has a special tool for this? It adapts any lightset- going back to Poser 2, that is; to the version of Poser you're running..

I ran into your problem when writing for Poser 5, so I wrote the tool, then implemented it in all EC II's version.

Cheers,

Paul Christiaan

This happens to me occasionally, especially if the figure isn't in "just the right place" for the light settings. Too far forward, too far to one side, etc. Check the spotlights in the set and see if the "point at" option is selected. Turn that sucker off, and you can get the lights to cooperate and shine on the figure.

oh, i guess i will just try deleting them...and rebuilding. i know poser has some glitches...some are pretty bad...but, this is the THIRD time this stupid crap has hit me....the first 2 times were a couple of years ago with the same set. GRRRRRRRRR...wasted my whole president's day afternoon, doncha know?

Poppi,I think Poser doesn't remove previous lights when a new preset is added. I've always found that to be a pian. I usually try the Edit > Restore > Lights trick to get back to the default lights and start over. There is a python script in freestuff that will remove them all for you,but I can not recall who made it right now. Tom

I think it was ockham who made the delete light script, apologies to both parties if I'm wrong ;)

gonna try edit....restore lights