Hi all.

I have many issues with Poser, some I have tried to work out with support, but though I give them credit for the attempt, I have found no solutions. However I have a simple problem that I hope you all can help me with;

I have created a simple prop (square) that I have applied a mov file to, to create the illusion of smoke rising into a cloud over my characters.

When I first apply it, the first frame and render is good, but as soon as I move to another frame, or play the preview (and the effect is the same in a render) the render changes to an unwanted result. I have tried it several times using different square props. Even did one alone with no other props of characters in the scene, but the result is the same. None of the material room settings change between the first frame and the rest, nothing is animated. Yet the results are the same. Frame 1;

Frame 2; (and all frames after)

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.

As an update, I tried the same thing with my Poser Pro 2014 (kept it because of issues with poser 11) and there was no problem. So the issue is directly related to the upgrade.

Note: Choosing firefly or superfly made no difference.

If it's MOV being used for the movie, could that be the problem? Perhaps Apple MOV handling was changed in the Poser version upgrade from 2014 to 11? Can you apply some other movie clip format to a prop, and see if the problem remains?

My other thought is there may be some gamma shift going on. i.e. that the first frame starts by using the colour profile used for video-encoding, then Poser defaults to a system gamma / profile to play the rest of the movie?

Since Poser Pro 2014, the mat room has randomly rejected and accepted both mp4 and mov formats - meaning one day the mov works, and the next day it doesn't (or sometimes mere minutes). In this instance, I am using mov. ( one of the issues i have had that support has tried to, but did not resolve).

Your second thought may be closer to the issue. However I don't know how to address that. All the settings appear to be the same; mat room, lights, cameras. I usually have the gamma turned off. Maybe if I turn it on...I will try that. Any other ideas?

Thanks for your input!

That was it! I actually had the gamma on. When I turned it off, the problem went away! Yay! 1 out of about a dozen issues solved. I was able to get the effect I needed by adding an alternate specular. Thanks!

Well, one thing solved, but another one steps up to replace it. Unchecking gamma, fixed the one, but when added to the scene, I have another prop with transparency that loses complete transparency when gamma is unchecked! I may be able to work around it, but its friggin' annoying.