So I bought DAZ David and tried to click him up after unzipping and installing him. But I keep getting the error message that poser 4 can't find the geometry file. All I can think to do is try reinstalling. That did not help. I tried it twice. Still poser can't find geometry.

So now I want to try using the "uninstall" feature that I clicked on when I installed David. My idea is to uninstall him and THEN reinstall him. BUT I don't have the slightest idea how to find it or use "uninstall." I can't find any instructions at DAZ. What the devil is it?

Moreover, am I on the right path? Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be and how to go about trying to solve it?

Message edited on: 06/05/2004 22:58

Have you tried searching for the OBJ file in Windows Explorer (or something like that)? Of course, the obj file should be where it is supposed to be but it happens that it is stored elsewhere. France

There is supposedly 8416 KB of bldavid.obj in my geometries DAZ people, and a 6012 KB of bldavid.rsr So, Hmmmm

Delete bldavid.rsr and try again.

I guess it doesn't work the same way in Poser 5 then because it happens quite often that my Poser can't find the obj file but it asks me to find it. So that's what I do: I find the obj file through my 2xExplorer then I can tell Poser where to get it. Sorry I couldn't help. France

Assuming you have Windows, if you set up an uninstaller, it should appear in your programs menu, where DAZ should have put a folder for the model. Or it would also be in Control Panel/Add and Remove Programs. I can be more detailed if you don't know how to navigate windows. I don't have him yet or I could tell you what to search for to find it. A simple search in windows for David may lead you to folders on your system that contain the .obj.

First let me make a correction. The popup said cannot open, not cannot find. Anyway I deleted the rsr and tried to reinstall and no new rsr appeared. But when I clicked the characters box, David did load! Hold the applause. Then I tried sticking genitals on David. Same problem, can't open geometries. Same solution, delete rsr. So far so good. I have an anatomically correct David. So I go to put a skin on him. Genitals first, because I am still on figure 2, so that is easiest. That went okay. Then I tried to cover the rest of the body with a map. The computer just sits and sits. I end up with a white screen. So I start over and go through the whole business again. SAme problem to begin with. Have to delete rsrs in order to get David loaded. Then I try again to put skin on him. Same problem -- hourglass and white screen. Has noone else had problems with David?

Note to sandoppe. Then I checked programs and you were right. There is a DAZ folder in programs with the remove items. I need to stop and think a bit, and then I may try total removal and reinstallation. But right this minute I am a bit dizzy.

I think I would uninstall and reinstall. Sounds like a bunch of stuff is corrupted.

Yeah rsr files always screw up just delete the rsr file and he will load into poser, Another thing you can do is write protect the rsr file from daz so it does not get corrupted again, it becomes corrupted each time you load the figure into poser unless you write protect it.

Sometimes when I use very high resolution skin textures it chokes Poser and I end up having to close the program. That's with 512 MB RAM. You may have to make the skin texture slightly smaller?

Have you converted the BUM files for David (if they are called - I haven't installed yet but I know the beta had a PP Mat file, which suggests that there should be a P4 MAT file that will look for them). Go to Render>Materials, in the bottom left quadrant of the dialogue click Load and find the maps that need converting (look in Poser 4RuntimetexturesDAZCharactersDavid for names ending ...Bump.jpg), click Yes to convert, Cancel the Materials dialogue when done and try to apply the texture again.

First, the "can't open obj". If there is any justice in the world, CL has gotten SO many tech support messages about this. Poser 4 just loves to eat certain RSR files over and over, and no one knows why. What you can do is open Poser, load up your figure, then once he's in there successfully, close Poser. Assuming no errors, go find the RSR file, and set its file properties to read-only so that Poser can't eat it again. Now, the map issue. By any chance, are you using windows 98? High res maps or standard res?

Just to clarify, be sure it's the rsr in the Geometries folder you delete, not the rsr in the figures library. But you said you're using P5. I only have P4 and I have no problem using David at all. He comes in perfectly for me. I guess just another reason why I won't upgrade to Poser 5. Melanie

When you installed you didn't install for the Daz Studio did you? Marque

Yoiu also said you "tried to click him up after unzipping and installing him." When/where did you get a zip file for David? Perhaps somehow you got a wrong file, because David does not come in a zip. I'd contact customer service with your order number and ask about that.

Thank you all for being so helpful. Let me update and for the record. But first let me respond to the easy points. Momcat: I said unzipp because I thought that was part of what the DAZ installer did. I don't know what else to call it. Marque: No, I did not install DAZ studio. Melanie: I use P4. Yes it was the rsrs in the geometry folders that I deleted. Fyrespirit: Good to know about poser eating rsrs! I may try your suggestion when I get a chance. I use windows XP and am using a low res map. Now let me tell you guys where things stand. I eventually figured out that whatever my problem #1 was I could delete the rsrs, load up David and save him in the figures library and add morphs etc. Then close poser if it did not crash and there he was working normally. The remaining problem #2 was that when I tried to apply the body texture poser would always freeze/crash after it asked for the bump.bum and I told it that I did not want to keep looking for the bumps. Of course I knew that I would have to convert them in the materials dropdown. But poser would not let me get that far. So I thought about it, and next I loaded my David from figures and found I could apply textures to the GENITALS figure and that poser would not crash and that I could save it that way. Ah ha! Then I could load up the genitals with the genital texture only applied and go in and change ALL the bump.jpgs to bump.bum With this done, poser could find the bums and there was no problem. The sticker had been that when poser did not find Davids body bums it freaked. [Rhaseltine: I guess in retrospect there was another way to do this, but I did not understand it at the time and so did not try it. I am still pretty much a novice at computer files and all.] Now I have what seems to be a perfectly functional David in my figures and I can shut down poser and the computer and he comes up normally with no problems. So now I am wondering whether I should leave well enough alone or go in and tinker to see what happens if I write protect the rsrs, and or uninstall the whole David business and reinstall David. Or? I agree with the praise that people have given to David. I am quite pleasantly surprised with the improvements in quality. I was never happy with M3 and always have to think about how to pose him so that the defects are not too problematic. M2 was okay, but still had more limitations so far as I can see than David. So fooling around with David himself is much more fun for me right now than going back and fooling around with poser itself!! I am not anxious to do that unless there is a good reason, now that I have a working model.

There's an old saying: "if it ain't broke....don't fix it!". If it works....I would just enjoy David and not worry about it :) Poser is an odd duck, isn't it!? :)

Oh yes! An odd duck. And the manual is even odder. Thank goodness for the forum. I'll take your advice. Thanks again.

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