This may sound ignorant and if it does forgive me, but I am still a newbie at about 3 months and I am so frustruated with props. Every single time I try to render a figure with jewelery, (necklaces mostly) or wings and overgarments such as a cape, My render stops at the point the prop is applied and Poser freezes. I have to shut down Poser and open it again. At first I thought maybe it was my memory but I always open Poser with at least 90% resources and I decided to remove the suspected items and after I remove the jewelery or wings etc... It renders just fine. Am I not doing something right with these particular types of props?? Hope someone can help, my figures look so bland without anything to spice them up!! Thanks, Annette

hrmmmmm..... which version of Poser are you running? Poser 3 gets a tad flakey with added props etc... Poser 4 with the update usually doesn't have problems... etc.. can you render the prop by itself? Sometimes a prop might be corrupted... but usually all that does is go invisible when you render..

I am running Poser 4 with pro pack. I havent tried rendering the prop alone. Should I try it just to check ??

What happens if you just let it go when it seems to freeze up? It may just be extremely slowed down by a complex model or texture. Also, what happens if you de-assign any testures/bump maps/refl maps, etc of any affected props to "none" and then try to render. (ps, have you applied the applied the latest SvcPak updates from the CL site? I think ProPak's latest was up to SR3)

I've had good luck lately in Poser 5 by quitting out of the program and rebooting and starting up again. It was happening to me in Pro Pack as well, so that's why I mention it. In 5 it happens when it's something new that the proggie is trying to find. Emily

Hmmm good, so its not just me then. See when it happens to me in Pro Pack, I cant save and close or anything. It is completely locked up. I have to do alt, ctrl delete and close it with the close program box. How did you fix it or should I say correct it? Thanks, Annette

You don't mention what your OS is, but I discovered ALL my lockup problems went away when I upgraded to WinXP. Not to run down older verions, but it really made a big difference in stability for ALL my programs, including PPP. (you didn't mention if you'd installed the ProPak SR, so I'll hope you saw that suggestion above)

I have XP and lots of memory-- when it locks it's locked-- I usually, ctl-alt-del bite the bullet and reboot. It almost always works after that. ALways save before a rendeer or before adding anything big-- the render is the dodgiest time. Emily

leather-guy, I am using windows ME and yes I have the service release installed. I have learned to start saving before renders I usually completely forget though. I tried rendering a scene prop from RDNA, cant remember off hand which one it was now but it did the same thing!!! I guess I'll just keep trying different things. I just got a hefty tax return back, so I may consider upgrading to XP in the near future. Thanks a bunch! I'm sure I'll be here venting again if it keeps up. LOL