I mean.. there must be an error here somewhere, but I can't for the life of me see what it is :o( I need this one rendered 30 minutes ago... I've tried with Normals Forward on and off. No difference. The lights are my default lights , one raytraced shadows-light, 2 lights without shadows. If I load another character into this scene, it renders ok. HELP?!

ambient colour is black and value 1, set value to 0.

I tried that :( It made no difference :(

Go towards the light Carol Anne! I'd suggest you check the settings on your lights to make sure a Negative vallue hasn't slipped in. Poser 6 does have that ability to suck light out of a render these days you know with negative settings.

ok the ambient thing needs doing, but you may also be having trouble cos of the spectacular settings. try setting the spectacular colour to white, then reduce the spectacular value and highlight size values.

Mizrael, I've checked the lights :o/ Other characters I load into the scene renders fine. Fugazi.. I'll try that :) Carol Anne?! who's that?! LOL

Dammit.. Setting Specular to white didn't help. And setting the Ambient to 0 only makes it render TOTALLY black. I checked the lights once again. All are at an intensity at 1. I wonder if something has gone corrupted in this one. It was a saved PZ3. I reloaded the character and it rendered as it should. The one that is making trouble originally had the Real Skin Shader attached, I just unplugged all the nodes corresponding to that. Might be the reason. But it rendered with that same burned colour also WITH the Real Skin Shader in place... :o( The problem with my RENDER is solved because I loaded a new character. But I'm still stumped here. I guess something went awry in the cr2 then...

Carol Anne was the little girl in the Movie Poltergeist that went into the TV Closet with the spookies. "Go Into he Light Carol Anne" was a very famous line from the movie. :P

I'm guessing the skin shadre was saved to character while she was spun 180 degrees to this axis...You need to rerun the script with this light setup.

@ Mizrael: Aha! I don't watch horror movies. They're bad for my sleep... GG @ Richardson: Hmm that could be. But now that all the Real Skin Shaders are unplugged.. should that matter then?!

Nope. My bad. I thought maybe you screenshot(ed) after the disconnect.

Is it actually a figure or have you just imported the mesh as a prop for texturing? Sometimes in the past I've had situations where the Poser lights don't seem to work if there's no actual figure in the scene. It surprised me because I'm not sure if its been a consistent feature or whetehr it's also related to light shaders or shadows. I never got round to investigating the exact circumstances. If it is a prop mesh try dropping a test figure in and moving it away from the camera. Bill

Does it still render like this if you turn off raytrace in the render settings? What is the shadow bias on your light that has shadows enabled?

Shouldn't lights be at 100% and not 1%? David

You haven't used dynamic clothes have you? This happened to me when I saved a file with dynamic clothes. As soon as I went into the cloth room & activated the final frame again, all was ok - when the scene loaded it was with the inital frame rather than the end frame.

No dynamic clothes. As I said, if I put another character in the scene it is properly lit, so it's not the lights, it's something with this character (and it's aPoser character btw, it's PoserWorks Amy :o) )

Remove the textures from the figure and apply plain colors. Then do another render. Than way you can tell if the issue is with the materials or with the render engine.

I think it is the materials. I eventually loaded the character fresh from the folder instead of using saved version (with hair), and it works ok. I guess something has gone wrong at the cr2 level. I was mostly curious if anyone could immediately spot something I'd overlooked. But as none of the (otherwise great) suggestions work, I've come to the conclusion that there must be some sort of error in my saved cr2.