Hi folks. Lots of time out here. I want to ask a surely dummy question: I recently upgraded to Poser 9 and "Houston, we have a problem". I've used hundred of times .jpg files as background images for my renders, but now Importing a file as a background the Pose window does't show it in Preview mode (but rendering it, the file appears and it is nicely connected in the Background node)

Why this @#$%&Ç* is happening and how can I fix it???

Hamster greets ;)

Imported background appears fine in preview mode in PP2012.  The only obstacle could be the ground plane, and if the visible in camera setting is unchecked, will render the complete background.  Without seeing some screencaps, it is hard to determine what is going on.

Imported background was appearing fine in preview mode in Poser8, but not now in Poser9. This is NOT the problem.

Maybe this helps: squeezing my mind, I tried to use a .PSD file and GOAL - it loads nicely OK. PSD yes - JPG no, both same node settings.

But is boring if I need to convert first my JPG photo files to PSD files, taking in mind that my previous Poser version was showing them apparently without  troubles...

try going to render settings preview, turn of HW shading, or switch to scree or both.

random guesses with no real understanding on my part.  May not work.

Love esther 

sometimes I have an application - like Poser - having problems handling a specific JPG. Opening the JPG in Photoshop and resaving eliminates the issue, it seems to be in the details of the JPG encoding. Perhaps Poser 9 (or its OpenGL preview handler) has dropped the handler for that specific kind of JPG's. For rendering, the image is pre-converted to EXR anyway, probably by a different handler which does not have the issue.

Or converting to PNG might help. If so, convertion can be done in bulk. This saves you the manual making of all PSD's. You never know.