Nature style files and figures

Question

I downloaded a Nature style file from here but I don't see any images when I build my figures. Do you know if this is intentional or if I've done something wrong?

If you've drafted a LaTeX paper for any Nature journal, I'd love your advice!

Answer 1

Quoting lines 126--129 of nature.cls:

%% The new figure environment defers printing of all figure captions
%% until the end of the document and prints them in sans serif font.
%% The \includegraphics command is ignored since Nature wants figures
%% as separate files.

Answer 2

Do you use \includegraphics for your pictures? If so, it seems that nature.cls will ignore them intentionally- from the last few lines:

%% ignore all \includegraphics commands in the document
\AtBeginDocument{\let\includegraphics\NAT@ignore}

\newcommand{\NAT@ignore}[2][]{}