If I create or edit a file in Poser 8 and then open it in Poser 2012, the whole scene seems to be completely lacking in lighting. It's not that there isn't light at all, but the whole thing is very dull and not vibrant whatsoever, especially when rendered. If I then apply a new light set to the scene in Poser 2012, this new lighting also looks extremely dull. Even if I were to increase the intensity of a light, it will not look bright whatsoever when rendered.

How can I get the scene to have the lights that I apply in Poser 2012 look like that lightsource? I can easily do it (and don't have too much trouble with lights) if I had started the entire file in Poser 2012, but if I'm opening old files created in Poser 8, it is only then that I have a problem. Is there a setting somewhere that is different between the two programs?

I want the lighting to be exactly the same for both programs, but they're not.

I am assuming you are referring to Poser Pro 2012.  Under render settings, set gamma to 1.0.  Now it will be exactly for PP2012 and Poser 8.

Thanks.

I've tried that, but I also don't seem to have any shadows still in Poser Pro 2012. It seems that a file created in Poser 8 seems to completely lose them in 2012. I have cast shadows and ray tracing checked on the render settings. Any new light I apply in PP 2012 doesn't have any shadows either, even with the "shadows" box checked on light properties, and whether it is ray tracing or depth map shadows checked.

I don't know how it can lose that.

Renders depend on a light-material-render engine relationship triangle these were all changed from P8 to PP2012. I would be surprised if anything rendered well from P8 to PP2012

1 delete all the lights from your P8 scene

2 remove all the advanced modes in the texture room reset to simple

3 Save As

4 Open in PP2012

5 Light with IDL dome, spots,and points

6 Texture using SnarlyGribbly's EZSkin and Scene Fixer

you might also want to check out Artbee's PDF on corrections

http://www.book.artbeeweb.nl/?p=317

Click in properties in2012 on the light  'visible in open gl'. The light should then become apparent.