I just loaded in Poser Pro 2012 last night, upgrading from Poser 7.  I love the new preview and other features, but I'm having a problem with a scene I'm creating.

(i7 PC with Nvidia Quadro 3800 and 12 GB ram, Vista Business 64)

Problem One:

I'm using the Gnome House 2 from Renderosity and the lighting setup that comes with the product looks pretty good.  It comes lit with:

Light 1 - Diffuse IBL

Light 2 - Spot (lights the right roof)

Light 3 - Spot (lights the front of the house, I moved this to get more light on the doorway)

Light 4 - Infinite (lights scene from above.  I made this blue as it's a moonlit scene.) 

Everything looks great in preview and it rendered out just as I wanted it.

The probelm came when I wanted to animate the front door opening.  The interior of the house was too dark, so I put a yellow spotlight inside and aimed it at the wall that was visible when the door opened.  I preview it gave a nice, candlelit feel to the interior, but when I rendered it this light was not visible.  The wall remains dark even though it looked correct in preview.  I also tried a point light with the same results.

Am I doing something wrong here?  Does the inside of the house not react to the light in render even though it shows up in preview due to the way it's made ?

 

Problem Two:

Everything else seems to render fine except when I go to render a certain figure (Toon Santa from another site) all I get is a blank screen instead of my render.  When I make it an animation and make a one frame Image movie it spits out a perfect PNG frame.  Why can't I see the render with this figure?

Thanks for any help you can offer.