Another newbie q. Anyone know why I get such funky colors in preview? I know after I render they go away, but so many colors? Hard to do any scene work when I can't tell where a part of the object is.

Just figured it out. Gotta go to preview drawing and choose SreeD software. Then It shows up like it should

What software are you using?

I have this product, I believe (Haunted House Pro) and it does not look like that when I load it in Poser 11. Here's what it looks like for me:

Are you using the right version? There are three different zip files. You basically only need one of them. There's a Poser version, a DAZ Studio version, and a plain OBJ version (for use in software other than Poser or DAZ Studio). If you're using Poser, make sure you downloaded and installed the Poser version.

Hi Randym77, Yes it looks like that for me now too. I had to choose preview drawing and then SreeD to get it though . But hey whatever works!

Glad you got it working. I guess that means your graphic card isn't supported?

You could try updating your graphics drivers. I seem to recall Smith Micro recommending using OpenGL if possible. It's supposed to be faster than sReeD.

If the graphic card is integrated into the motherboard and it is not an Nvidia chip then the better display is SreeD. This might be true with AMD graphic cards as well.

Hmm, don't seem to have problem with speed with SreeD. Yeah, could be my graphic card. Thanks for your help!

The preview display won't affect the speed at all, it just gives you the closest representation of the scene. On my computer with a non-Nvidia integrated video card, SreeD is the better display. On my other computer with an Nvidia card, OpenGL is the better option. Under that circumstance, Superfly will default to GPU rendering, while non-Nvidia cards and integrated video will default to CPU support.

AMD is integrated here, on my general work desktop, and OpenGL does just fine with Poser 11.

Without Poserman12 posting his system specs, it's difficult to diagnose. I would suspect an older laptop or PC, having trouble with transmaps?

Nothing to do with OP's question but what's with the egg shaped moon?

@ HartyBart: Good to know. I don't want to generalize nor speculate on what works or doesn't work with Poser 11.

Interesting effect. Looks like OpenGL's hardware shading is trying to handle a masked displacement that covers and exposes parts of the surface. The hardware shading doesn't do very well.

Here's my Arcade Hotel, which uses a similar technique, in OpenGL with hardware shading on, then rendered in Firefly.