The big piece in the middle is the rendered prop; the little piece in the lower right corner is the thumbnail. I added the prop to the menu immediately after rendering. Obviously, there's a bit of a difference.

The other items in the picture show things I thought might be relevant, but obviously I'm a bit at sea here. Behind the scenes are bump maps, reflection maps, reflection colors, ambient colors, object colors, and reflection settings.

I'd like the preview thumb to show what the object will look like when rendered. What am I missing here?

The thumbnail is generated from the current Display settings. To have a thumbnail display as Rendered; Just render to a new window (91 x Pixels wide) and save/overwrite the PNG in the library(PPP and P5 only) - Or render and save, then convert with P3do and then save over the RSR in the Library.

Thank you, m'lord. That information is helpful, as I couldn't understand why it wouldn't display correctly. Unfortunately, it's not completely useful because I using P4 on a Mac. A P5 purchase moved two weeks into the future as I had to spend the money to have two trees taken down (they were endangering a neighbor's house). The second alternative will become useful if there is P3do for Mac (OS 9 or X); I'm not aware of it, but would be happy to learn of such.

It is possible to do it by hand on the Mac, but it is a bit messy and involves the use of Photoshop and ResEdit. Like this: Render your picture. Export the image from Poser. I export as psd. Add the item to your library, and you'll get the prerender thumbnail there. Open your exported picture in Photoshop, resize it to 91 x 91, do Select all & copy, so you have the image in the clipboard. Then go to Finder, find and open the folder where you saved your Poser item. Take the cr2 or whatever and drop it on ResEdit (I have an alias on the desktop). A little window will open with one icon. In Resedit go to menu item Edit:Clear, and then Edit:Paste. Finally File:Save. Back to Poser, and when you refresh you'll see your new picture.

Marinne, Thank you! That worked a treat. I had tried substitution the PICT resource in ResEdit, but I had gone one step too far by opening the PICT resource and trying to Paste there. So I figured that I was too many years away from ResEdit to be useful. You have restored me to the True Path. ;-) Thanks again.

Yeah, I tried that one too first. It seems more logical, doesn't it? :)

There's another way that don't envolve Resedit- as before use Photoshop to make 91x91 image but save as a png then put that and the file it's a pic of together then drop on Thumbnailer 1.1 and it does the resediting work for you :-)

Thanks, Charlie, but the screenshot at http://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/Illustration/My_Thumbnailer07040001_ScreenShot.htm seems to indicate that Thumbnailer 1.1 is a Windows program. Is there a Mac version that I'm overlooking?

Check freestuff for ThumbNailer 1.1

Which is, of course, what you wrote -- not My_Thumbnailer, which is what I commented upon. I have now located Thumbnailer and downloaded it; I'll give it a try. Thanks for the tip and for your patience.