emerald_darkness opened this issue on Apr 01, 2005 ยท 8 posts
hauksdottir posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 9:46 PM
First and foremost... ALWAYS save under new names. Always. I learned that back at Epyx more than a decade ago after a 3 day animation was corrupted and totally irretrievable. I'd saved regularly, every 10-15 minutes, because the computer was flakey, but nobody had told me about rotating my saves under new names. This is even more essential with new software or a new figure or a new computer or anything which can go blooey. Even something as reliable as PhotoShop won't open a file if the harddrive has decided to save it in spot which goes bad. (40 layer deep CD cover... but I had it saved under other names and could rebuild.) Yes, that is cold comfort now, but might save your time later. I don't use the gen 3 figures but others have said that they will open just fine no matter where the DAZ folders are located. Being able to link Runtimes helps. Do you use "save" or "save as"? You should always use "save as" because you then can determine the name, directory location, and other vital information. I believe that you can also at that point decide whether you want the morphs to be saved internally or externally. (This might also be set under preferences... I'd have to look.) If the morphs have been saved externally, the files might not open in your older program, but they will be smaller and faster loading. So do not trash the files... they might still open in P6. There is a known memory problem which is one of the things being worked on. That might affect your V3 depending upon size of textures and other stuff in the pz3. About the vanishing curser... I have no idea. That is new to me. Document it and send it off to CuriousLabs as a bug (and give basic info... WIN or Mac, how much RAM, the OS, anything which can help replicate it. The curser will change shape, depending upon the tool selected, but I haven't seen it pull a Frodo and vanish entirely... so there must have been something clicked on or selected or maybe no tool at all... strange. Carolly