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Subject: Poser 8 - Renders only silouette of prop

HotDog36 opened this issue on Jul 30, 2014 · 6 posts
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HotDog36 ( ) posted Wed, 30 July 2014 at 9:26 PM · edited Wed, 08 January 2025 at 9:25 AM

I have run into the strangest glitch I have come across in Poser 8. It seems to have started recently, though maybe I just noticed it now (I have been using it for years btw). I am using standard default Poser lights. If I load a single prop into the scene, it will only render as a black silouette, and there are strange intersecting square-shaped shadows on the ground plane. If I add another prop into the scene, it renders perfectly fine, no issue. If I delete that added prop, it goes wonky again.

Has anyone else seen this? If I uncheck "cast shadows" it renders properly as well, but naturally without shadows.

Do I need to re-install it or something?

JimTS ( ) posted Wed, 30 July 2014 at 9:28 PM

Try including a figure off camera

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket
Charles Péguy

 Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do;they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart
Walter Savage Landor

So is that TTFN or TANSTAAFL?

HotDog36 ( ) posted Wed, 30 July 2014 at 9:39 PM

Quote - Try including a figure off camera

 

That does work as well, that is probably why I have never noticed this before because it is very rare that I am messing around with just a single prop in a scene at a time. Is this a regular glitch, or is it just me?

bagginsbill ( ) posted Wed, 30 July 2014 at 9:49 PM · edited Wed, 30 July 2014 at 9:54 PM

A well known bug that I've strangely had opportunity to explain three times in the last couple weeks. 

Summary:

Everything you have with shadows enabled fits in 10 inches, and you're using depth-mapped shadows.

Change the conditions and it will stop. Bigger object, another small object more than 10 inches away, or use raytraced shadows.

SM is not interested in fixing this. 

Note to helpers who keep suggesting a figure:

It's not because it's a figure that fixes it. It's because any figure is bigger than 10 inches. A tiny figure that keeps the whole-scene bounding box within 10 inches will still produce the problem. Please stop suggesting the inclusion of a figure.

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bagginsbill ( ) posted Wed, 30 July 2014 at 9:55 PM · edited Wed, 30 July 2014 at 9:56 PM

Observe the figure with the same shadow problem. (this is not my image - I borrowed it from another thread discussing a scaling problem resulting in the effect of a figure acting like it's tiny and triggered this bug)

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HotDog36 ( ) posted Wed, 30 July 2014 at 10:00 PM

Thanks alot. The object I was working on was tiny (a cookie). I had noticed that making it bigger helped, but a cookie shouldn't really be foot in diameter. lol. Now I at least know what I need to work around. thanks again.

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