Now that you've set up your preferred scene, click save-as and save that preferred scene somewhere convenient that you'll remember on your drive. Next time you start from scratch or upgrade, you can open that saved scene and under preferences-you can save your preferred scene without having to fuss with all the details of getting it the way you like.

As mentioned:

You'll want to set preferred scene in two places. Both edit/preferences/document and edit/preference/interface.

Just posting to keep this thread near the top. Just happen to be working on a hair prop, materials for strand hair drive me up the wall...

Here's how I keep track of my camera, its parented to the head of the tripod and locked. If I need to make adjustments I move tilt or rotate with the tripod, keeps things more 'real world'.... LOL

Your screenshot above showing your render in preview mode, still you shouldn't be seeing a blank screen.

Could you show a screenshot showing the preview screen and the properties tab with the camera selected?

Have you tried rendering from a different camera?

Here are a couple of video's from nerd you may find helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vv9jN2445c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NtjvlVRTSw

They're dated but still relevant

Thanks Nerd, most helpful as usual.

Found and backed up to an archive drive...

Oops I mean Poser 13...LOL. Short spin-cycle on the edit button...

Poser\ main menu\ object\ reduce polygons.

Would be great if when rendering animations there would be an option to 'skip existing images',,, imagine that you just click render and it fills in the blanks and/or continues from where you left off without having to queue up multiple sessions, its been in other software for ages, also 'object motion blur' without blurring everything that moves in the entire scene,,, and how about soft selection in poser native cloth sims it would enable simple soft-body physics... everything you need is already there, I was doing it in MAX with the same software a quarter century ago... I know the 'other' sim option has soft selection, but that's the suck-iest POS software ever devised to frustrate even the most patient among us... LOL

Update::

I tried installing an earlier version of ZBrush, still no GoZ in poser.... Reinstalled Poser13 and now GoZ works fine....

"It shows the render as it works but when finished it is blank."

This rings a bell for me... In a previous version I had a similar problem with SuperFly, turned out the contrast in PostFX was set to -1 somehow(I didnt do it). Try unchecking 'apply post effects to render' and see if it makes a difference...

I have no idea why Firefly isn't working, but I suspect there may be a cross-bleed of settings that shouldn't happen... I've had renders in SuperFly that showed red splotches(like those that appear when calculating indirect light in Firefly) or incorrect Gama that seem to have been alleviated by turning off or adjusting settings in Firefly. Strange things sometimes surface in the unlikeliest circumstances, I think those are commonly referred to as 'bugs'.

Hope you find a solution...

Thanks @hborre...Seems the problem is with ZBrush 2024, theres no Poser folder in C:\Users\Public\Pixologic\GoZApps. Anyone know how to remedy this? Maybe revert back to a previous version???

@nerd: The problem is not the lights, its attempting to set render options that causes the crash on every scene created in previous versions. The older scenes load and render fine(but very slow compared to P13). My suspicion is that it has something to do with differences in the way adaptive sampling is implemented that resulted in faster renders, just a hunch...

Loading the old scene into a new scene cures the issue, the only reason I delete the lights from the new scene is to prevent duplicates.

Try creating a scene in P12 set render options and save to disc(or use an existing P12 scene), then open that scene in P13 and attempt to change render settings see if it works for you. If you don't have an issue I'll know its on my end, though i cant imagine how that's the case.

I've wrestled with this issue for months...Reinstalled P13 several times including uninstalling and fresh installs... after several attempts I (formatted drive)upgraded the OS from Win10 to Win11 same problem persists...

Thanks for your reply...

PS: I loaded an older scene and deleted all the lights and got the same result.

I should add that the gloves also have a cloth simulation applied... Add all vertices to the constrained group.... Simulation processes quickly as there are no dynamics to compute.

If you want your characters hands to interact with a cloth item, I recommend you create and use gloves as collision objects. The characters fingers snag on cloth items, creating undesirable results.

Here's a quick video showing the results...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qawKvP515RQ

Of course you would hide the gloves during render...