Just found "All" and feel like a total idiot.  Thanks.  This is what happens when you don't play with Poser for a few months!

No, I don't see "All" anywhere in the library.  Where does it usually show up?

I just added a prop to the main Poser Pro library. It doesn't show up, but when I search for it, it's there and comes up using the search function. The readout has it located in the Poser Pro library where I put it.  It seems all my runtimes are actually in the library but I just can't see them.

I have Poser Pro 2012.  I'm using the external library and only the Poser Pro library appears.  All my other libraries have disappeared.  I installed the latest update but I still can't see the other libraries.  They are there, because I can do a search and find figures that are contained in these "hidden" libraries, but they don't show up on the general library menu.  When I try to add them, Poser tells me that those runtimes are already in the library. Why the heck can i see one runtime, but not the others?

This is obviously due to my complete misunderstanding of the way the preview lights work as opposed to the rendered final.  I'm a filmmaker that uses Poser to make set extensions (matte shots) and CG sets for some of the sci-fi shorts I make.  I obviously want the final result to look as realistic as possible within the limits of Poser.

My confusion comes from the fact that the preview light (a simple spotlight I shined through the screen to get the pattern on the wall) can see through the screen and pick up the pattern.  This same light can shine through the wall or ceiling in preview but doesn't show up in the render - as a found after rendering about twenty times with no light showing up on the wall as it did in preview and then discovering that said light was above the ceiling of the room.

I'm obviously going to have to sit down and do a lot more experimentation to get the near realism I'm looking for.  Using BB Glossy really helped with adding a great look to a Dreamland sci-fi set I'm woking on.

The problem of the glass transparency is very challenging to me, Miss Nancy.  I'm looking for transparency and reflections off the surface of the glass and haven't had much luck so far.  Of course it would help if I knew what i was doing.

The point made no difference.  The infinite lit up the floor.  Neither gave me the pattern on the wall in preview.  No matter what I try, I can't get the look I get in the preview when I do the render.

Diffuse is white as is specular.  If I drop Firefly down to draft the light shows up on the wall, but with no pattern.  The higher the settings the less light on the walls.

Raytraced lights.  Shadows on.  6 raytrace bounces.  Casts shadows in render settings.

Ah.  Thanks for making life easier, BB.

Like I said, total idiot.  I found the shader in the thread.  Now I have to download Matmatic and see if I can figure it out.

Why do I always feel like a complete idiot when I post here?  First, sorry about the double post.  Second, where the heck do I find BB's Glossy shader?  I went on his site and couldn't find it.  Or is it strictly a Matmatic thing?  I went to the thread BB suggested and it's obviously going to take some serious time for me to figure this out.  I just got up to speed in expressions in AfterEffects, and as a mouse and keyboard shortcut kind of guy, all this text is a bit intimidating.  Bear with me, I'm sure I'll have more questions in the near future.

Thanks BB, I thought you might chime in.  Don't know why I always forget to mention my version of Poser - which is PP 2012.  I'll try this when I get home tonight.

Thanks BB, I thought you might chime in.  Don't know why I always forget to mention my version of Poser - which is PP 2012.  I'll try this when I get home tonight.