OK folks, I guess I got really lucky when I first got my Poser 11 Pro, as it didn't (for some reason) have the Construct set up in the default Startup Scene.  I know another person who also found the same thing when she obtained Poser 11 Pro around the same time I did.

That said, however, it didn't take me long to find out how I could accomplish the same thing if my version had come with the "Alternate Construct" set up by default.  If you go to the Scenes Library, there's a folder titled Poser 11 Environments, and in that folder are 3 options.  1) Alternate Construct, 2) Developers Workspace, and 3) Poser 10 Workspace, which is the old P10/PP2014 "Ground Plane".  That gave me an option to go back to the old Ground Plane if that's what I wanted/needed.

It's easy to do, just select the Poser 10 Workspace, and save it as a new Startup Scene, making sure you've set it as Preferred Scene in the General Preferences Launch Behavior section on the Document tab, AND that Launch Behavior on the Interface tab is set to Launch to previous state, which will make sure every time you start a new scene you will get the new Startup file.

I set this up in Poser 12 as well, as the Scenes folder includes Poser 11 Environments, which includes the old Poser 10 Workspace option.  Just be sure to set up the Preferences as I mentioned above.  Now the only thing I need to remember is to click the Transparent Background on the Render settings when I'm working in Poser 12.

Needless to say, you need to "hide" the Ground Plane in the Heirarchy Editor.

Hope this helps.

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OK . . . Where's my chocolate?

Butterfly Dezignz