Quote - They do not mention a bug that's occurring to me (windows XP):
P7 closes and exits to desktop when i try to open a .pz3 file when in the material room

That reminds me of a joke:

Patient: Hey Doc! My neck hurts when I bend it this way.
Doctor: So stop bending it like that stupid!

Ba dum dum!

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Also, the SR didn't fix the main P7 feature, which is
that the Firefly renderer gives me a beautiful picture of a
polar bear in a snowstorm every time.  (i.e. pure white.)
I'm sure this is also more "correct" than the ugly random
stuff in the real picture.

Hi ockham. I got the snowstorm effect too, but only when I had ticked "separate process" ticked.
When I removed that tick it works. (I still leave the number of threads to 2 on my dual core)

*" Hi ockham. I got the snowstorm effect too, but only when I had ticked "separate process" ticked.
When I removed that tick it works."

did you allow the Poser.exe through your firewall? it talks to the ffrender process via sockets that your firewall blocks, resulting in a blank render.*

Installed the SR1 and now I'm no longer able to import a wavefront object. The status bar runs correct and at the end, there is only the figure circle but no object. Instead of deleting the invisible object I tried File -> new and the result was the new window is black and there is no chance to change the color of the lights.

For me, back to the version without SR1!

Banana software!

Quote - Installed the SR1 and now I'm no longer able to import a wavefront object

A wavefront object or any wavefront object? Do the import options make any difference?

interesting.. I can import with no problems here.. (exports from trueSpace, XSI and from UVmapper)

Ahhh the pain of dial-up! I will wait on these til I get my sat in. Was also going to put in my second phone line but got snowed in...lol
They told me it rarely snows down at this level but the second night here we get basted with it...heh...teach me to listen to my daughter.   8^)
At least we got everything moved into the house before it started snowing.
Marque

Quote - A wavefront object or any wavefront object? Do the import options make any difference?

May be that there is an object that may import correctly but I tried it with 10 different objects from working figures, not very big , all between 200 kB and 2 MB. Always the same result.

where are you getting the OBJ's from?

@Jules53757,

I have the same problem with different obj and different setting to import.
I uninstall and reinstall with the same problem....without sr1 everythig is ok.

They are working poser items in my runtime. Geometries from working clothing items purchsed at CP. But this doesn't matter, it happens also with blMilman_m3.obj (just tried it).

interesting. as I said I'm bringing stuff in no problems here.. I wonder why that is?

Quote -
Patient: Hey Doc! My neck hurts when I bend it this way.
Doctor: So stop bending it like that stupid!

Only because a user finds a workaround to avoid crashes it does not mean the bug should stay not corrected.
More, especially when after a long work session, you may forget all the golden rules you have learnt to prevent your software-tool to crash

PS
plese, do not mention "stupid" or other offending words next time.
It was not necessary in the context of your joke.

@Mask2: You're right.  It may not exactly be a bug, but the purpose of
beta testing is to expose such Murphy's Law combinations.   Everyone
forgets the rules, and everyone does unexpected things at times.

If the program can't take a new file when in the material room, the menu
choices that import a new file should be disabled when in the mat room.

Morph brush no longer working after installing SR1!!! How do you uninstall the patch?

it still works fine for me

@efstarlet - Thank you! Having the UI reset itself every time P7 started was driving me nuts. Works good now.

Sorry for the late reply., but thanks for the render test Ockham! That was about what I figured...and what all of my render tests between ProPack and Poser6 have also found. It's scary that Poser7 is even slower. Once again, I'm still left wondering where is the imrovement in performance?

Well, it looks like SR1 won't be neccessary because I still will not be purchasing Poser7.

Glad to see that I'm not the only one with three different versions of Poser on their hard drive. I wonder how many others out there also have multiple versions loaded? :p

Anyway, thanks again! 

Quote - Morph brush no longer working after installing SR1!!! How do you uninstall the patch?

Can you elaborate? What exactly are you trying to do and how?

ok before I put this into tech support I want to see if anyone else can replicate this:

I load P7, load in a mesh, with render as seperate process ticked I render to a blank screen
I goto Zonealarm, enable Poser to have full rights through the firewall
I hit render, everything works perfectly.
a few minutes later I hit render and I'm back to the blank screen again. no settings in the firewall have changed.
I have both Poser.exe and ffrender.exe at full rights (all sections ticked and set to super)

tried allowing (as per advice given before) 127.0.0.1 for each process so they have a clear path. rendered once no problems, then returned to the blank grey screen on the next render.

and then it gets strange. the area render works perfectly, but the full render blanks out.

the area render which worked for 3 renders and then back to blank grey again....

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2687094

can you check this out and see what you get?

Can you elaborate? What exactly are you trying to do and how?

I'm trying to make a morph in the hip portion of a model I'm working on using the create tab/morph brush, befor SR1 it worked fine but now I can only use the morph brush on the chest or abdomen, the hip shows no change when a brush is applied.

yes it's selected but just unaffected by the brush, it's weird.

Quote - @Jules53757,

can you check this out and see what you get?

Just got this hint in an German forum and, well this works. But why in hell they added this feature? Until now I used P5/ P6/ P7 with my countrysettings German. Now I have to switch to UK or US settings for getting problems in Excel and other Programs I never had before!

no idea mate.. glad we found out what that problem was...

btw don't switch all your settings over - goto Control Panel - Regional - Customise and there you can change just the decimal symbol and leave the rest alone.

The P7 SR1 using Vista Home Premium on my computer causes the Firefly rendor to lock up at the very end of the render no matter what settings I use. I had set a system restore so i restored back to pre-SR1. With out the SR1 I can render with any settings, no problem.

Quote - Poser 7 English Service Release 1 Now Available
 
Poser 7 English Service Release 1 (SR1) is now available for both Macintosh and Windows. SR1 offers several enhancements and addresses known issues present in the following areas:

Rendering
Third Party Content
Multiple Undo
Talk Designer
Plus Several Other Areas

In order to receive technical support and application service releases you must have registered your Poser 7 application serial number with e frontier. If you have not yet done so, please register now.

Once you have registered your serial number, you can access the service release for Windows or Mac.

Learn More About Poser 7.

THANK GOD!  Now maybe I can put my bottle of Motrin back in the bathroom cabinet where it belongs.  I've had it sitting on my computer desk ever since I installed P7...

Quote - > Quote -

Patient: Hey Doc! My neck hurts when I bend it this way.
Doctor: So stop bending it like that stupid!

Only because a user finds a workaround to avoid crashes it does not mean the bug should stay not corrected.
More, especially when after a long work session, you may forget all the golden rules you have learnt to prevent your software-tool to crash

PS
plese, do not mention "stupid" or other offending words next time.
It was not necessary in the context of your joke.

Dude it was a JOKE!  It also happens to be the way I feel customers are sometimes treated by CP support. Those who can relate will find it funny, those who can't, won't. Whatever your point of view, it was presented as a joke. If you wish to be offended by Jokes, I'd suggest you stop reading the forums around here. theyr'e full of them!

Keep it nice folks. 

I seem to be having a different problem then those listed so far. I load V4 into Poser 7(haven't had any problems with P7 and V4 before SR1) and pose her the way I want her, I then use a pose file to change her eye color and instead of changing the color of her eyes suddenly her lower legs and feet get folded up into a her thighs which are then crossed. I get the same result with and without the IK turned on. I've already checked the pose file for changing the eye color and it only lists the eye parts and no other part of the body. Just thought I would throw out another strange event with Poser 7 and the SR1.

Quote - Keep it nice folks. 

For those installing the ENGLISH service release in NON ENGLISH versions of Poser, uhm...it's likely that's the cause of the problems you are having.  I'll check with the bosses  to confirm that but  I should mention that we usually release versions of our Service Releases in other languages after the initial English release. It's generally not suggested that you install service releases that aren't for your particular region, as that may cause instability and or a degradation in performance.

This seems to be a problem when installing the english SR1 on top of an english Poser 7
running on a German Windows XP SR2.

I am getting the "import object error". Meaning no matter which object I import, there is nothing to see.
If I create a new scene, all lights are turned off and there is no way to fix it!
Have to restart Poser and work from that new scene.
Haven't tried anything else yet.

I'll try uninstalling P7, reinstall and update and see if that will help :-)

By the way, this is the first time, that I am really having problems with Poser.

Quote - They do not mention a bug that's occurring to me (windows XP):
P7 closes and exits to desktop when i try to open a .pz3 file when in the material room

• Does this pz3 file always crash when you try to open it?
• Does this same file open okay in the original Poser 7.0.0.63 GM (does iit only occur in SR1?)
• Does it crash regardless of whether your display settings are SreeD or OpenGL with or without HW shading enabled?
• If you open it in the 'Pose' room does it open okay there, only to crash as soon as you go to the Material room?
• What version of Poser was the file created in?

Hopefully we can figure out what is going on...

Can you send a copy of the Pz3 to tech support or specify what's in the scene so we can duplicate the problem?