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Poser Randomly Altering Lights

KageRyu

Lost Mad Soul
Contributing Artist
Over the last 2 years I have run into very annoying behavior from Poser where it seems to randomly alter lights settings and intensities, or add unwanted keyframes when I am working on complex animated scenes with lights. This is frustrating as I will do tons of test renders to get lighting set up, then save my scenes and render them later - and then find lights flickering, moving, or a scene suddenly washed out, or new lights I never added. It has caused me to waste months of render time redoing scenes. This behavior seems to be almost exclusive to Poser 2012 and 2014 (don't have Poser 112 running, and it does not happen in Poser 7/Pro). Has anyone else run into this behavior, or is it some hidden algorithm poser has just to set my projects back? If anyone else has seen this, any idea why/what's causing it?

This isn't a case of me forgetting I am animating and not setting proper keying for the lights - this is I will adjust the lights, test render selected frames, save the scene, send it to Queue and find the lights not the way they were set up.
 

Janet

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
Hmm weird. Are you changing them on frame 1? If you don't put the changes on frame 1 they change around.
 

KageRyu

Lost Mad Soul
Contributing Artist
As I already said, it is not a case of me improperly or forgetfully key framing. This is happening after lights have been carefully set, frames test rendered, and the scene saved and later loaded and sent to render queue. I save incrementally as I work, and setting full lights is among the final stages before final render - that and smoothing over DOF tests. First and last frames are always test rendered, as are random and pre-chosen frames throughout for mood, color, brightness, etc...
 

HaiGan

Energetic
Contributing Artist
Have you tried sequential saves to see at what point in your setup process the light issues begin after re-loading a scene? Also, are you closing Poser completely before reloading?
 

KageRyu

Lost Mad Soul
Contributing Artist
It has to be happening when the scene is loaded. As I said I save incrementally, and the light setup and DOF tests are the final stage before saving for final render. The final render-ready scene is always saved to a directory just for finished scenes. They do not always get rendered immediately.
 

HaiGan

Energetic
Contributing Artist
Saving after setting the first light, saving as a separate file after setting the second light and so on- see if it's ANY light that has issues or whether it only starts happening after a certain number.
 
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