Nope, it's not just you. ;)

I have a similar problem: whenever I load an existing scene file, the contents are displayed in the lower-right hand section of the document window. Going into the Material Room then back into the Pose Room doesn't help. Needless to say, this makes every existing scene file unusable in P8.

I started a ticket about this issue on the SM bugtracker site a few days ago, but I don't know if it's fixed in the new hotfix or not.

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