I REALLY do not want to restore default settings.

Somehow I messed something up and I am rendering only the grey background.  Even when I thought I had a background picture added and I selected to render the background image, nothing only the grey.

If I load V4, select the main camera and adjust it to where her head is smack in the middle of the screen and select to render the whole screen - I still get ONLY the grey.

It also takes an absurdly long time to render.. nothing.

Any ideas?

that happened to me a couple of times not too long ago - i restarted poser and it hasn't happened since. I'm thinkin it may be a random display bug or something. Are your drivers updated?

~Shane

Yup they are all up to date.  

What's the clipping distance on the camera or whatever its called (min draw?) and how far away is the camera compared to that?

I forget the setting off hand, but can't you have something display in the pose room (handles) but still be invisible in the render?

Do you only get this with V4?  Try putting a primitive where her head is and see what happens.

Is something between teh camera and the scene?
is the camera outside the BB sphere for example?

Can you render with a camera other than the main camera, such as the posing camera? If you can, you need to check settings, such as clipping distance on the Main camera as Winterclaw suggested. Do you have "visible in camera" unticked in the figure properties tab perhaps?

do what the others said, and check if atmosphere is enabled.

Hi, I ran into that with an old file not too long ago, try entering the material room and select the background object and as it comes up the image is no doubt already loaded but will now magically appear in the pose room :)

Had to go off to other duties yesterday after I asked this.  I will try these suggestions and see if anything works.  Thanks!

After this I will post an image of the preview window from the main camera and then an image of what is rendering.  

There seems to be nothing between V4 and the camera.  Also it is catching her, it's just even if I have the camera pointed dead on her, it renders only her right arm.  So it's like it's moving.

I don't know if I have mentioned this before but I can be really simple sometimes.....  I'm glad I asked because it kept me looking for the solution instead of restoring defaults but I did figure it out on my own.

 I had the render dimensions set ridiculously high.  So when I would see the finished render I would only see a small portion of it.   2560 x1920 - my moniter is not that big lol.  Also explains why the renders were taking sooooo long.  

smdh

Glad you figured it out -- it never occurred to me that it might be render dimensions, lol.

lol me either..

Ouch :-)

I forget the actual quote, but it goes something like this:  51% of all mistakes are caused by human error, with the other 51% being indirectly caused by people.

At least you figured it out, and it was something a) easy to fix and b) something to remember. :)

I have been caught out by this in the past.  I reloaded an old scene and did some changes and then started a render which I abandoned as it the precalculating indirect light was clealy not running as it should.  I did that three times until finally I let it complete the render.  Only when I noticed the cursor changed when I hovered over the the completed render and  I could pan across the image did I realise I had saved the orginal scene with the render dimensions way up for a special render.