Every time i ...import a poser prop..which i maybe doing it wrong...i import different characters....a black dot goes into the middle of the light ball...and then when i render...the character..looks like she is standing in front of the sun..i've included a picture...if you could help....thank you :)

Perhaps once you added a very bright light in front of the character and then made this setting the default for a new scene. Remedie: - Remove the light - Remove all other objects you dont want in a new scene - Set this scene as your preferred scene. Maxx

i've done some playing with it..it seems to just be some characters...because i tested it out with a few others doing the same and it didn't happen...

When you import a Poser file it imports the lights that are included with that file... and sometimes it freaks out, and instead of putting the lights where they were to begin with it puts them all right in the middle... the only way around it is to open up the .pz3 file that you're importing, on it's own, and either delete out all the lights in the scene, or save the figure that you wanted to import into one of the character libraries... then when you want to add it into the scene you're working on, you can either import the .pz3 file again, without the lights, or add it to the scene from your character library.