For some reason my Poser 5 has been screwing up its renders recently. Everything comes out like a black cutout and not the actual image! I have no idea what happened. I even scanned my system for a virus but my Comp's clean. This black outlining is starting to really upset me because I can't get any real work done! Please tell me that someone out there knows what happened and can help me fix this. The image above was an exported image after rendering. Everything I do now looks like that.

Is this the way the render looks in Poser or the way the image looks when you save it....or both? Have you changed any settings recently? Have you tried restoring defaults in the rendering options and resetting your factory defaults and seeing if that helps? It almost looks like all your lights are turned off....they aren't are they??

Great silhouette... There were quite a few messages relating to that problem awhile back...darn if can remember what it was....is that P5 ???

Did this happen after you applied a SR or something? I think I heard something about disabling shader trees but that's a clunky workaround.

lol..what kind of virus would make your poser renders black :p a poser virus... lol.. looks like you havent any lights.. or your lights wont work,because you messed somethng up in your materials room.. bah..thats why i still youse poser 4... i wasnt very happy with 5..every render was kinda fuxxored up..

are the lights off?

I re-installed, nothing else worked.

The lights are on. And that's how the image looks in Poser and when the render is exported into Photoshop and even Microsoft Paint! It doesn't matter if its a firefly render or a poser 4 render. No shader trees were enabled, nor did resetting to factory defaults help. I'm really hoping I don't have to reinstall.

The problem is probably that you are exporting as .png (or maybe another format with alpha channel)- in which case the background and foreground are separate. I know when I tried to export with PNG some of my paint programs brought in both background and foreground just fine, some only the foreground, and Photoshop only the background with a shillouette like the above. It is actually cool to have the foreground and background separated, but confusing to some programs. Try exporting as tif or try opening the image in a different paint program to see if you get the same result.

I export as a tiff as a general rule, but also tried a jpg. I've only got Paint and Photoshop on my system so I have no other programs to try it in.

If it looks like that in preview window as well as render, the only other thing I can think of is maybe you rotated your camera around to the back of the figure where no light is shining. May seem farfetched, but it happened to me once, and confused the heck outa me till I realized that the light was off (on the back side)

Are you sure you have your document style as well as the element styles set to texture shaded?