I'm just getting into Poser 6 after many years of version 4 and I'm having a strange problem trying to make some props for it.

When I import an obj to an empty scene, I find it just renders completely black- totally black, no highlights nor nuthin', like a silhouette. If I edit the materials, it still renders the same no matter what I change the colours and settings and maps to.

Now here's the weird bit- if I add another object to the scene- any object at all; figure, prop, even the same obj I just imported- then the materials I changed on the first obj suddenly start to work fine! But then, if I delete the second object I added, they just break again and the first obj goes back to being a pure black shape.

The only material attribute that will work at all in this state is the ambient colour- nothing else affects it at all.

Am I missing something or is this as much of a puzzle to you as it is to me? It's stopping me getting on and making my props, I know that much.