Using environment #10 from Elite Expressions as a backdrop and everytime I try to render a complete scene, the groundplane dissapears. I've tried everything I can think of...any ideas?

I had that problem before. I was told to go to Display> Guides > and make sure Ground Plane was checked. Hope this helps!!

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Jerry McCant

Yup make sure you have ground plane checked. That dog isn't going to hurt the little bunny is it? :)

groundplane is checked :( Until I can figure what is wrong with this image, bunny will be safe :)

how about different lighting? I found the other day when I rendered a graphic I was working on the lights I was using darken the lower part of the graphic so much it looked like my ground didn't render.

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Jerry McCant

I've tried that as well, used about 13 diffrent lighting settings (poser default, lights that came with character packs, a few from freestuff) and all the floor didn't render in any of them. Sigh I'll figure something out, or just postwork a floor in.

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....... did you fiddle with the ground plane like move it at all? Maybe it moved down below the render point? Am I making sense?

In a world filled with causes for worry and anxiety...
we need the peace of God standing guard over our hearts and minds.
 
Jerry McCant

have you checked the size of the ground plane or the location of the plane in relation to the rest of the scene? I have done renders before where I rescaled everything to put it in proportion & suddenly found everything floating in space when I forgot to resize the ground to the same scale.

I haven't bothered with the groundplane at all other than to texture it, and yes I understand what you meant kayjay97, I did that quite a few times as an utter beginner :) Cooler, I've checked the size of the groundplane, seems to be just fine in relation to the environment. BTW, I render with everything turned off (antiviral, messangers, taskmaster, etc) and am using cacheman. I wondered if the floor not rendering might be because the image is so resource intense as it is (for my poor decrepid system anyways) that that might be a factor...*sigh* not the case. I'll check again and give some of these suggestions a second try, might be something wrong with me and not Poser :p Thanks for the advice so far everyone, -Des

One thought occurs to me, I can't recall the circumstances, but I recall a similar problem regarding ground textures - i think I solved it sizing and superimposing a one-sided square on the ground plane - applied the texture to THAT, instead of the ground plane itself - all worked okay after that - seemed to me the ground plane is sometimes more a virtual reference than an actual object - don't know why. Hope your problem disappears - I find the environments from Graphons Elite Expressions site absolutely invaluable for a lot of my projects. Good luck

I''l try that... I've never had these problems before with the enviros either...