I'm trying to render some animations, but when I have the textured shading on, which is what I need to render them in, the mapped images are not comming out right.--the image below shows what I'm taking about. it's mapped on a cylinder that is all but flattened out. Does anyone have a suggestion

"I have the textured shading on" What version of Poser are you using? Do you mean "texture filtering" in the Firefly settings of Poser 5?

Thanks for the quick response! I'm using poser 5...As far as the texture shading, I'm refering to the document style--I'm pretty new to poser so I'm kinda just winging the render settings, but I'm rendering with raytracing, smooth polygons, and use texture filtering all checked. Any thoughts?

here's a pict of my materials settings, and a also a comparison of what it should look like vs what it looks like after the render--hope this is helpful--thanks

Smooth polygon is probably the culprit. Try turning it off, and see what happens. THe cylinder will probably have some ugly corners. The trick is exporting it as an .OBJ, open it in UVMapper, and then split the vertices at the edges. Save it, reimport, and render again with Smooth Polygons on. Hope this helps, Steven.

I turned off Smooth poloygons and it looks the same

The cylinder all but flattended out is the key to your problem. Add a little bit of separation to the top and bottom of the cylider. What you are seeing is the bottom of the cylinder overlapping the top of the cylinder because they are to close together. And alternative would be to put a little displacement on your texture, maybe about 0.01. But just moving the top and bottomn of the cylinder apart is probably easier.

Thanks--That was the problem!