Hi all,

I agree with bluecity, I've experienced that as well and it only seems to happen when I have objects in a scene that I modeled in external modeling program.  I had one render that was giving me fits with odd triangle-shaped gray patterns appearing seemingly for no reason, ie. there was nothing close to or behind the camera, the scene was very simple with only a few objects and one mill figure, but three of the objects were modeled, one by another modeler and two by meself...

Since I am new to all of this 3D stuff, I'm sure there were polygon problems with my models which I modeled in 3ds, and only after hours of fumbling around with poser (I'm pretty new to poser as well) was I able to get the gray triangle patterns to go away.  What eventually worked was deleting the lights several times and loading a new light set, tweaking the shadow settings, and then finally it went away.

But I have to say that as complicated as the 3D apps are, it's a wonder they work at all, and if they work 95% of the time without problems, I can live with the other 5%.

I'm just going to have to learn more about modeling, and that takes a lot of time and experimentation, but that's what is fun about it, at least for me...

*(I'm using poser 7 with no service paks, and have had very few problems with it, almost none, which to me is amazing. It has been a pretty solid program right out of the box.  Sure it has crashed on me numerous times, but that is usually because I did something stupid and deserved the crash. At first I hated the program, stuck it back in the box, put it on a shelf and thought I might give it away.  Then one day I was bored and decided to give it another try, and now really glad I did.  The gallery is now haunted by my inept poser renders, there is no stopping me now!!!  lol  ;-)

M