Hi Tom, the only way I know how to go back to the old plain Ground plane setup is to go into the Scene Library > Poser 11 Environments folder, and select Poser 10 Workspace. That will delete the Construct, and give you back the Ground plane setup.

One word of caution, when you do that it will "add" the 4 lights from the Poser 10 Workspace scene to the 4 lights from the default scene Poser11/PoserPro11 comes with.

What I would do is open the Window > Light Controls window, if you don't already have it opened as part of your UI, and delete each of the lights. This will give you a solid black Preview of your scene, but THEN if you choose the Poser 10 Workspace scene, you'll only have the default lights for that workspace.

Then you can make the new scene your "preference" for when you open P11/PP11, and also every time you start a "New" scene. You can do that by clicking on the Edit menu, and choosing "General Preferences" at the bottom of the list (Ctrl+K). Then make the following selections:

1. On the first "Document" tab, once you have the scene set up the way you want it, click on "Set Preferred Scene" button in the top left section, and click "Launch to preferred scene".

2. On the second "Interface" tab, click "Launch to previous state", also in the top left section on that tab. Then click the OK button at the bottom right of the dialog box, and your preferences should be saved.

Also, at that point you might want to change the color of the Background. I always do that, and the color of the Ground plane, because I don't particularly like the default colors for them.

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Butterfly Dezignz