efstarlet opened this issue on Feb 27, 2007 ยท 86 posts
efstarlet posted Tue, 27 February 2007 at 3:12 PM
And cause someone will ask:
Poser 7 generally runs fine under Windows Vista. There are a few issues that might require workarounds. Please refer to our Windows Vista knowledge base article for details: http://www.e-frontier.com/article/articleview/2127/1/858/
We strongly recommend saving hair groups to the Hair library with their underlying prop. This is because hair is grown from vertices and must be associated with vertices on its underlying object in order to function correctly.
To save hair to the Library palette, select a hair group (or its underlying prop) then click the ADD TO LIBRARY button. You will be prompted to select your desired hair subset(s). Clicking the SELECT SUBSET button opens a hierarchical display allowing you to select the hair groups that you want to save. Be sure to save the parent object!
When saving a subset of props to the library only the currently selected object will retain its morph targets. To save morph targets on all members of the subset choose Edit->General Preferences... and uncheck "Use external binary morph targets" temporarily. Once the subset has been saved to the library, "Use external binary morph targets" may be reactivated.
Adding a prop to the library: When adding a prop with morph targets that is parented to a figure, the prop might not retain its morph targets if Poser is set to write external binary morph targets. In case you encounter this problem, please choose Edit->General Preferences... and uncheck 'Use external binary morph targets' temporarily. Once you're done adding figure-parented props with morph targets to the library, you may reactivate 'Use external binary morph targets'.
Texture search: In previous Poser versions, textures were occasionally specified by their file name only. Since in that case the search mechanism has to search with just the name, it will find the first texture with a matching name. Please keep your texture names unique to avoid loading the wrong texture when opening legacy scene files. Poser 7 always attempts to store an application relative path or an absolute path (whichever is appropriate) in the scene file. Also, the Poser 7 Texture Manager always displays the full path of all loaded or previously loaded textures. This will aid in determining the location of any texture file.
Rendering in separate process: In some cases, Area Render might fail when rendering in a separate process. If you encounter this problem, please retry, render a full frame, or consider rendering internally.
Color on the alternate diffuse channel of a root node will not preview in the document window.
If you have difficulties using the Face room's photo matching feature due to the rotation of the head in your photos not matching the selection outlines, please consider rotating your photographs in an image editing application.
A note on using the DivX codec when making movies: the DivX codec can only be used with standard aspect ratio (4:3).
Some 3D file formats have restrictions in output size. In 3D Studio (.3ds), an object can consist of no more than 65,000 polygons. In Lightwave 5 (.lwo), the maximum size of a scene is 65,000 polygons. Please use the LWO2 export option if you want to export LWO files of objects larger that 65,000 polygons.
Using the Auto Install feature in the Content room might leave temporary files behind. Please delete the files in the temp folder if you want to conserve disk space (Windows only).
There is an incompatiblity with Unsanity's Window Shade X potentially causing an undesired Window Shade effect on Poser palettes. Please add Poser to Window Shade X' list of excluded applications if you encounter this problem (Mac OS X only).
Library thumbnails in PNG format that contain both data and resource fork can cause instabilities. Deleting the resource fork resolves this issue (Mac OS X only).