I keep running into this problem on one of my machines: Poser will not render past the first image of a TIFF sequence. I have tried reconstructing the project file (just in case the orginal was corrupted) changing various settings, etc. Occacsionally it will get to the 9th or 10th frame, but then it stops there as well. Has anyone else run into this problem?

Okay, I have been able to successfully render a 200 frame TIFF sequence of the Business Man walking along (Poser 3 figure, right?) on the very same computer? What gives? Do certain textures or custom figures cause this problem? Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!!

Hi You don't say whether you are running a Mac or PC, anything about your animation like ..number of figures (P3, P4, Vickie or Mike}, props, size of your texture files but I would guess from what you're saying that you either have a ram problem..not enough or not enough free space on your hard drive. I had this same problem with avis and sequenced stills with my old machine. With my new machine, a gig of ram and 40gig HD for Poser alone I haven't had any problems. I have also found if I'm using Vickie, Mike or some of the newer hair models, it will slow even my new machine down to a crawl with a large animation. The only other thing is to maybe check to see when the last time you defragged your hard drive. Poser seems to work better when your disk isn't fragmented. Hope this might help some. EdW

Ed: Thanks for the info, but I have 866 with 512MEGS and two 40 gig hard drives with over 60% currently free. Defrag is run every night. It's a PC in case you hadn't guessed by the specs. It renders AVI movies just fine. Never once have had a problem there, even with complex setups. It is only when I try to do a TIFF sequence. IF $&!$$* Curious Labs would just have included QUICKTIME support for Poser this wouldn't even be necessary. I could just ouput it with an Alpha channel with no compression and be done with it. (Well except for the fact that they totally screwed up and inversed the Alpha channel.) -Tim

Well from what you say there I think CL has a problem. Sounds like the tiff plugin Poser uses is corrupt or doesn't work right. Will it output to say jpg, etc and not hang? I'm with you about QuickTime. I convert most of my stuff to QT4, but it would be nice to be able to do it in Poser! Ed

Not sure, but JPGS don't render with an Alpha channel. But I would be curious to see if it was just a TIFF issue. I suspect it has something to do with it drawing it on screen. (When you render an AVI, as you know, it does not show you what it is rendering.) Also, on the QT, write a quick email to Curious Labs requesting QT abilities in a future release. I have several times over the months/years ... the more people the better. And the real advantage to doing it in Poser is of course so you will have an alpha channel, converting it to a QT4 won't work. -Tim

I had the same problem, TIFFs stop after 6 images. I thought it was just me not knowing what I was doing. I had one figure and one prop on the screen. AVI works fine. Finally had to export each frame all by it's self to finish the project. It took all day. skee

Fortunately I can render it on one of my other machines, but this is my fastest machine and it's really annoying. At least I'm not the only one. I really think it's a video driver issue. What kind of video card do you have? What are your other system specs. And, dang, each one individually! That would take all darn day. And you do know that then, after all of that, if you plan on using the Alpha you have to find a way to invert each and every one, right? -Tim

Tim, sorry it took so long to get back to you. I have 800mhz ,win98 ,512ram, NVIDIA GeFORCE 2PRO CARD, newest drivers on my main machine and on my other machine I have 400mhz 128 ram , ATI pro video card. Both machines will not do the TIFF files. Both will stop at around the 4 to 10 frames and I have to render each frame if I want the TIFF format. skee

No problem, thanks for the info. Well, I thought maybe it was an Nvidia thing, but you say the ATI machine doesn't work either. Hmmmmm ... my other machines have an ASUS and and ATI respecitively, and they work fine. Both have less horsepower and less memory. One is even running Win95. Bizarre. I've talked to Curious tech support and they are pretty much clueless. If anyone else reading this experiences this problem, please do a quick post here to let me know. Mine usually stops at frame 1 or frame 9 every time. WEIRD! Maybe someone at Zygote knows. -Tim