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I was wondering if anybody else has had a problem with getting the window to show correctly. I assume it may be a setting in my display or fonts but I haven't the faintest where to look. In the picture you'll see that I'm missing the entire Samples column and also when I scroll to the bottom there are other materials I can't access. I've got face-off's Hyper Real for V3 and ApolloMax scripts and they're working fine, it's just with this that I'm running into problems. Is there a way not to constrain the python interface window or something I can adjust?

Oops, the image would help.

Hmmm. Strange. I'm not sure what's causing that, and unfortunately, Paul (face_off) mentioned he would be away for a few days again. I don't know if he'll see this until he returns, but perhaps IM him with a link to this thread and I'm sure he'll get to it as soon as possible. It's probably just your font size or something simple. Good luck.

Thanks, I thought I'd ask in case somebody else might have had the same setup as me in the display properties. I'll try changing various settings. Btw, for anyone else who sees this and may have a clue, I'm on a pc, XP Service pack 2, poser 6 has the SR 1 installed and all the other scripts are running smoothly. And yes, I bought the OM for pc - I know it's obvious but it was the first question hubby asked :)

I had a similar issue where it wouldn't come to the forefront of the working window for a bit, but it finally kicked in when I right clicked the toolbar tab and maximized the OM window

Yeah, I tried maximizing it but the square with the columns remained the same size. I made sure my fonts were normal and not large or extra large but still no go :( I also tried screen resolution, I'm on 1280x960 and I see a lot of people using 1280x1024 so I tried that but no difference. You know it will probably be something so simple I'm overlooking it.

I hope you can get it fixed soon. It's realy a great product. I was really sceptical at first because all of my previous attempts at AO resulted in outrageous render times. The default settings on this tool don't seem to increase render time at all, ans I got REALLY nice results (can't show 'em here though ::evil grin::)

Oh, I'm sure it is a great product, I've been very happy with his other products too, just have a look at this Apollo render with the realism kit! Well, if you can't show 'em can you at least IM a link ;)

Kalypso - It sounds like your PC doesn't have the default font loaded that the PoserPython GUI uses, so it is using a slightly larger font, which is causing a glitch. The fix is to change the "29" to a "30" (or even 31) at the end of line 98 of the OcclusionMaster.py file in your Poser 6RuntimePythonposerScriptsWacrosUserDefined directory. Make a backup first. If you are uncomfortable making this change, email me and I'll email you back a modified version. Momcat - The PoserPython GUI functions sometimes get confused with "focus". When you run the OcclusionMaster from the wacro window, it /should/ get the windows focus. If it doesn't - something is wrong - I suspect you have a glitch with your Poser python install (the tcl component) - and this would also be a problem with any other python script that uses the tcl GUI. Your workaround is fine, but reinstalling P6 should also solve it. Also, the OcclusionMaster /should/ slow your renders down a bit! Maybe the speed difference you are seeing it that it is not applying AO to hair (which is very time consuming).

Ahh..ok. No,I did not apply it to the hair because I thought that it uses the geometry itself. Without the transmaps, AO would look very odd with the hair I used. To be honest. I have not even read the readme yet. I just decided to play with it and see what happened, lol (bad kitty!) Will it actually take transparency into consideration? It might be worth the render time if that's the case, lol.

Momcat - from the experiments I've done to date - there doesn't seem to be a lot of use having AO on hair. And on strand hair, your render is very slow. Depth mapped shadows seem to be the best way to get nice shadows from the hair onto a face, and it takes into account the transparency map.

That's what I figured >^_^<..and unless the clothing has a lot of details in the mesh, or uses displacement maps, I can't see too much of a reason to use it there either.

I agree. The biggest bonus comes from skin and floors/walls (where a figure is touching them) IMO.

Hi Paul, I changed it to 31 but I still get the same results. Would you happen to know what font is the default Python font? I can alway redownload the XP system fonts. There's one more thing I haven't tried and that's the Display Properties/Settings/Advanced the DPI settings. We have always had ours at 120 DPI as opposed to the normal 96 DPI but this has been the case for 10 years now and 4 pc's - could it be that? Thanks for your help in this!

Well I'd never tried 125 DPI, so thought I would to test it out....and....I have to say...I like it! I can also confirm that this is in fact the casue of your problems. Changing the 29 to 32 did the trick for me at 125DPI. I am using this font/slider system for a new product, so I'll try and find a better solution.

YAY! Thank you! That did it, funny thing is that 31 didn't affect it at all and I thought I'd be bold and try out a higher number - doh, never occured to me to in order, I went to like 96 LOL - which of course didn't work! Thanks Paul for such great products and terrific support!

Glad it's all solved Kalypso. I need to now rewrite that routine so it's DPI-proof for my next product.