I've noticed this in P12 & 13 and maybe even versions before that. If I apply a tex file as a mat and then I subsequently make a change to that tex file in my graphics app, I have to disconnect the node and replace it with any other tex file (doesn't matter what), and then save my update in the graphics app. I think I save my scene, too (I save it often). I then reconnect my updated tex file to the node. That way my change updates in the render (if not in the preview). I can't recall having any luck with Reload Textures.

I would SOOOOO buy these mats! I love procedural mats, and these are gorgeous.

"Poser has gone woke." What does that even mean? Should it be eating the cats and dogs (or some crazy thing like that)? Hehehehe...

I remember playing with a free app a couple of years ago (it's on my old computer) named Materialize. You make your own pbr image files. It was pretty easy, IIRC.

https://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/

Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images. You can create an entire material from a single image or import the textures you have and generate the textures you need.

There are some material collections with quite a variety of different materials:

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/152329/ghostship-poser-12-materials-2

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/150836/ghostship2-poser-12-materials

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/158629/semi-precious-gemstones-for-superfly

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/136630/vb-supershaders-for-poser11-superfly-bundle (poser 11, but I think they work well enough in poser 12, too)

Vincebagnas materials can easily changed colour-wise, and ghostship's have options to plug in textures - especially useful for older dlothing textures.

I use the Ghostship mats all the time, along with the Afrodite-Ohki Superfly PBR mats.

I also use these a lot from D3D: https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/112688/d3d-superfly-materials

I just put the Vincebagnas mats in my wishlist. Maybe there'll be a sale soon! Now, I'm off to google PBR textures.

Thanks for all the great contest gifts! I'm honored.

Thank you, ChromeStar, hborre, and RedPhantom. It was definitely the hither. I know to increase the yon when I can't see my distant background, but I've never touched the hither before. Seems the Main Camera default hither is set to .8. Powerage used this camera for the prop's camera shots. The one I selected to show you had the hither set to 64. I lowered the hither and got the shot! Thanks for the hither lesson!!! Now, I'll just update all those camera shots.

Duh! I didn't even think to look there. Thanks.

Just ran it again. Here's the error log. It's like it simply doesn't want to render this prop!

17:24:50 - Analytics: Ending timer for Render:SuperFly

The image is still the same as noted in my original post. I also tried rendering in Poser 11. Same nonsense.

It rendered okay in Firefly.

17:33:44 - Analytics: Recording event for Size:750x750

17:33:44 - Analytics: Starting timer for Render:FireFly

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of REYES objects: 603630

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of micropolygons created: 1505343

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of raytracing objects: 983679

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of rays traced: 16596886

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of irradiance cache entries: 0

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of occlusion cache entries: 0

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of primary rays: 379252

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of secondary rays: 0

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of shadow rays: 16217634

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of ambient occlusion rays: 0

17:33:55 - Firefly: Number of texture lookups: 5548926

17:33:55 - Firefly: Rendering time: 3.74 seconds.

17:33:55 - Analytics: Ending timer for Render:FireFly

17:34:11 - Analytics: Recording event for Export:PNG

I reported these, too, and two more the other day. Can we really block users? I must look into that.

These 2nd World poses are quite useful and ordinary. No hand-holding in it, however.

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/103907/everyday-poses-collection-v4

Darken the physical root specular.

That looks like Tyler, a G2 character.

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/130248/tyler-gndc-the-first-guy-next-door-from-blackheartedc

Tyler GND© by Blackhearted© is a custom morph character for Ryan 2, one of the included characters in Poser 9 and Pro 2012. 

I found I have the Asian Court 1 figure with the Queen's Ballroom textures. I made no changes to the textures, just used the default set. I added no light, just used Ground with both ground and background ambient values white and set to 1. Then I rendered at Optix High with the 2 caustics boxes checked. Window material setup is below the image. I'm not saying this can't be made better, especially for color saturation, but it worked out of the box with a Poser Surface root node!

Thanks for that info. I think I was confusing light intensity with the actual light size. Doh! I think I might try and find a better figure to use for my next try. Love your foggy image. The fog, the shadows, the reflected light--gorgeous! And the Firefly image is impressive, too. 2006? Wow.

ChromeStar, your reflected light is really sharp! Wow. I tried it again. This time I used only 1 spotlight instead of 3 like last time. I just used the render preset Optix High. I futzed around with how high and close and at what angle to put the light. I have no clue. The windows are set to emission 1, but, as hborre suggested, I lowered the intensity of the light. But I have emission of 1 coming off GROUND's background and ground. Doesn't seem to make a difference one way or another.

The light intensity in the 1st pic is at 200%. I couldn't get much reflected light any lower than that. The 2nd pic is at 500% and the third is at 2000%. I guess if I'd used your settings, it'd be crisper. And I made no changes to the materials in the figure. Someday, I'll want to use this technique, and now I know how!!! Well, sort of, hehe.