I have discovered that when I opened my old works in PZ3 with Poser 5, All the figures that has trancparancy defined gets Transparancy - Falloff 0.6 value as a default. Also this occurs when import hair,character and props to my project which has trasparancy. The problem is when I render this project the objects are not transparant enuogh, So I have to change all the Transparancy Fall Off values to 0 which takes too much time. Is there easy way to do this Automatically or define this value as a default.

I wish I could help, but very few of my old .pz3 files will even open in P5. I either get error messages or they immediately start rendering and then lock up. I've sent this off to CL, but haven't heard back yet. Even the patch didn't help.

have the same problem and asked at other places but there seems no other way to do it. Hoped cl had fixed it with the first patch!

Black Cat - There's a fix to the instant rendering issue. Basically its if you saved the Pz3 file right after you rendered it, P5 saves a line in your file telling it to preview in render mode. This causes your scene to render anytime its loaded, camera moves etc. You can fix this in two ways: 1. load your scene in p4 or p5 and wait till it renders or stop the render. Select a different preview mode then save the file. I haven't tried this myself since I do step 2 but I'm assuming this will work. or 2. Open the pz3 in a text editor like notepad and find the doc section at the very bottom of the file. You will see: doc { displayMode TEXTURESHADED displayMode CUSTOMRENDER Remove the displayMode CUSTOMRENDER line. This is probably not supposed to be there since it makes no sense and causes the render. Now save the file and open it. Your doc should not rerender now. If you see two displayMode lines its probably a bug since the second line no doubt cancels the first and is redundant. Hope that helps.

mason-- I looked at several .pz3 files and there isn't a "doc" section anywhere. Could that be part of the problem?

Hmm.. the pz3 should have a doc section. Basically it describes what elements of the pz3 get placed into the scene. Better yet, try searching for "displayMode CUSTOMRENDER" and remove such lines. That's the real issue.

How bout transparancy fallof. Is there a way to set them all to 0 automatically

Can't a Python Script be written to set the Falloff value to zero?