Hi, I'm sure that there are a million tutorials somewhere which address these questions, but I've been searching for hours and really can't find anything and in general I'm terrible at this and so on. Please bear with me... and better yet help me. I need to go slow... very very slow. Will be eternally grateful. -when I begin with a figure, there is a head floating very insistently on the screen. I don't understand what is with this head, how I make it go away, or what I should use it for. Please help. -have no clue how to move around hair so that it sits more naturally on skull. -can I combine two poser files? And how? I imported a woman figure into a file with a man figure on a rock and everything got horribly moved around. -how do I use props/figures I've downloaded? I downloaded a Man with a Canoe from here and installed all the harmonic files into all the directories per instructions but have no idea how to access it. I'm dying here. Overwhelmed and very frustrated. Please help. Betsy Through the crazy hands of fate I need to learn Poser 5 for my job. I'm using a German version of Poser and an English handbook

Here's some links to easy to follow type tutorial's. http://www.ronknights.com/ http://www.ebonshire.net/info/tuts-index.php Hope it helps and have fun!

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Boy I'm terribly confused here. I've never heard of a head floating on the Poser screen when you load Poser. What's all this about harmonic files and canoes?! Usually when you use Poser you do not "import" stuff. You load it from the Libraries. The best thing for you is to take one step, or item at a time. You can start by "translating" for us.

Quote - Boy I'm terribly confused here. I've never heard of a head floating on the Poser screen when you load Poser. What's all this about harmonic files and canoes?! Usually when you use Poser you do not "import" stuff. You load it from the Libraries. The best thing for you is to take one step, or item at a time. You can start by "translating" for us.

I find that terribly rube. It's obvious that English isn't the slyly's first language. slyly is working with a German Version of Poser, and an English manual. The head could be the result of having the figure in face view and having set the preferences to load that way. Or perhaps they are in the face room, or hair room, where it only shows a head; having arrived there the same way...set preferences. slyly downloaded files from here and installed them into the proper directories, but doesn't know where in Poser to look for them in order to use the items installed. As for them using the word "imported", I believe slyly was referring to opening a file or adding items to the scene from the library. I think if you had been the one to step back and taken some time, you would have seen what slyly was asking. I don't have Poser open and I can't recall which menu the preferences are found under, but maybe someone can explain to slyly how to get the program back to factory state and see if that helps her/him out at all.

Thank you :)

Acadia, if one does not understand terms someone used, the best way to get answers is to ask for clarification, or to have someone rephrase their words. I'm sorry you chose to get upset with that effort. Step back, and catch a few breaths.

" You can start by "translating" for us. " That line, Ron, was rude.

You chose to make it rude. Now leave it alone.

Ron,

Why don't you go take a walk? A long walk? You've been banned from here (and every other site) so many times, under so many names, and it is getting so damnably irritating when you refuse to go away!

Insulting people who are trying to learn the program despite a language barrier isn't very helpful!!!

Carolly

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Please, can't we all just get along :)

Follow Dr Geep's guide to resetting your preferences. Get Poser to factory state. That will probably load with the Casual P5 man in your document window, the main camera at a short focal length, and 3 lights of a warm hue arranged around him. After you get back to home position, you can change things to fit your own style of working. You can change the size of the window to match the aspect ratio of your final render, ie: if you are rendering to a rectangle, you don't want to work inside a square. You can change the lights. I prefer to have mine all white and positioned symmetrically so I can test things, you may need backlighting or whatever. You can change the focal length of the camera so that it isn't fish-eyed, and choose which camera you want to start with. Each camera has some special features with perspective, or how it moves and functions. you can change which figure you have in the scene when it opens. I choose an empty workspace, but if you are on a project, then you might want a particular figure in place when you open the program, to save loading time. Once you have everything the way YOU want, set a memory dot. There are 9 little dots like a tic-tac-toe board, click just above them to select for UI (user interface) and then click one of the dots to "set" it. Go back to the menu that Dr Geep showed you and "Set preferred state". Also "launch to preferred state". Now when Poser opens, you will see the workplace you want as your preferred state. You should also have a folded card, probably in the same language as the manual. It will list various key commands and point out what the tools do. Very handy! You can rearrange most of them, too if you need more room in your workspace. Remember that you can always change it later and set another memory dot! You can even erase memory dots if you need to reuse one or don't like a setting. Now ask specific questions in new threads and make the thread subject obvious for each of them. Examples: "How can I change the light colors?" or "How do I get the hair to stay on the figure?" Whether it is something simple like putting a book in a hand or complicated like getting clothes to drape, somebody who knows how to help will step in with some suggestions. We also have members here who speak most languages, so if it is really complicated, we can get a translation. OK? Carolly

Here are some links to Dr. Geeps tutorials. I'm a slow learner when it comes to Poser, and at first his pictures look very confusing, but if you study them long enough and follow the arrows, it starts to make sense. Check out these tutorials first. They cover all of the basics: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=2096208 http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=2159309 Then look through these: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=2063281 http://www.ebonshire.net/tut-geep/index.php http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=2112286 http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=2122838 http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=1843595 http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1649170 http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=2136081 Plus here are some others that I found helped me. The Morphing Fantasy Dress turorial helped me see how dials are used to adjust clothing and how clothing has the same "parts" as the figure. For example, if the chest of the dress isn't large enough to cover the breasts, you can work on the chest area of the dress, or the left or right collar and move the dials to "expand" and "grow" to the size you need. http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=490&highlight http://www.ronknights.com/poser/index.htm Excellent hair tutorial here: http://studioverite.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Carolly, it is wrong to insult and threaten those who are trying to help. You have chosen to see an insult where it did not exist. Now you could surprise me by accepting that you are once again wrong. But then you'd be doing the right thing.

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Ron, We know who you are, we know how you work, we also know why you have been banned (and rightly so) from this site and every other site out there, under at least a dozen names. You are NOT a member here and do not deserve the benefits of membership. Carolly

Thanks to everyone who responded. I'm taking a look at this stuff and will try to figure this out. Tutorials are great but sometimes they really do not address specific questions that I have. Or I am too confused to realize they are--either way, sometimes I just need a step-by-step explanation in another way. (I do want to mention that I posted here as a last resort--I'd been trying to figure the answers out myself for a long time before I posted, both with the help of many of the same tutorials recommended here and manuals and just playing around and exploring. And I still didn't get it. I don't know--them's the breaks.)

Some people get annoyed with slow beginners--that they still don't get it, despite countless resources, and clear instructions, whereas some people enjoy this sort of stuff--the painstaking detailed explanation of what are to them, simple things, basic ideas, etc. Hence my plea to bear with me--I can tell you right now, that I won't be posting any very interesting questions for a long time, so maybe only those in the second category should pay attention to my posts and those in the first category can thus save themselves the grievance of being annoyed as well as of having to plow through my awkward phrases.

I do want to mention though that, hilariously enough, English is my native language--touching how many posts touched upon this issue--but the real problem is, neither Poser nor computers come very natively to me. So of course I don't make sense--I'm standing in a miserable fog of nonunderstanding where even normal terminology flees from my lips. Of course writing in a frantic panic doesn't help; I'll try to be clearer next time.

Betsy

Quote - Tutorials are great but sometimes they really do not address specific questions that I have. Or I am too confused to realize they are--either way, sometimes I just need a step-by-step explanation in another way. (I do want to mention that I posted here as a last resort--I'd been trying to figure the answers out myself for a long time before I posted, both with the help of many of the same tutorials recommended here and manuals and just playing around and exploring. And I still didn't get it. I don't know--them's the breaks.)

I'm a slow learner when it comes to Poser too :). I've had the program for about a year. I would get so frustrated trying to get clothes from the library on to the figure but just couldn't do it. It wasn't that they wouldn't fit, it was that the manual had given wrong instructions on how to go about it (single check mark vs. double), and my figure kept disappearing. I think I reinstalled Poser six times before I finally decided to stick with it or die trying, last September. I was so confused and frustrated about everything: - a manual that isn't new user friendly; leaps around all over the place; and is more a lesson on how to build the program than it is about how to actually use it; - items such as hair found in several places; - textures located under poses; - a face room that has apparently no known use if using Vicky 3; - some things need conforming, others won't let you; - how to undo mistakes (turns out you can only undo 1); - HUGE long lists of folders in the library, and not being able to find anything! My head was swimming and I was so stressed and overwhelmed that I was frustrated to tears. I felt that I wasn't learning anything. When I learn, I like it to be organized, but with Poser it's been chaotic and disorganized. I also need "step by step" for some things; and learning programs is one of those things. I'm not a stupid person, but Poser makes me feel like a total idiot most of the time. I'm rather proud and hate looking dumb, but I finally swallowed my pride and begged for help. A poster from Daz took me under his wing and let me into his home via ICQ and walked me through doing several things and with his help I made my first clothed figure and rendered it :) I'm still working on the poser terminology too, hehe

Betsy, Many of us have been lost before when encountering a new program or way of working. It actually is worse if you already have some experience because then you can get tripped up over an assumption. As a beginner, you don't have to unlearn anything or worry about carrying over habits and keystrokes from some other program. "It works this way in XXX" doesn't always help if you are learning YYY. You don't know if a question is really basic or really complicated... so just ask away. Try to put some info in the thread title so that if your question concerns lights or clothes, or backgrounds the right people can step in with an answer. A German version would mean that all the labels and menu items are in German, but Dr Geep's screen shots should help with some of that. Carolly