It pays to be paranoid!

In Poser 4 (I haven't tested with other versions), if you use a pz2 that refers to none existant lights, the none existant lights will show up in the Hierachy Editor, nowhere else, not in the Lights dropdown menu, or the Light Controles, just in the Hierachy Editor (if 'Show Lights' is enabled). Each time you apply the pz2 two instances of the "phantom lights" will be added in the Hierachy Editor, or at least that's my experience.

'Show Lights' is disabled by default in the Hierachy Editor, and as long as the phantom lights are not selected I have not noticed any bad effects, though I supose there is some memory usage. If Show Lights is enabled in the Hierachy Editor, and one of the phantom lights is selected it can sometimes cause Poser to hang. I have not noticed any bad effects if a light is later added to the document that has the same internal name as one of the phantom lights, in fact this improves the situation as further applications of the pz2 will not create phantoms for this light. Upon saving a pz3 the phantoms will be stripped out.

As I said to Bloodsong in an earlier thread "Poser is possessed by devils!", and an exorcism performed by a competant priest may be of some help.

Message edited on: 06/07/2005 13:32