I have been looking for some stuff recently in the forums and have come across what seems like conflicting advice on various subjects - so I though I would start a thread to debunk or confirm some of these.

First on my list is:-

**"You should install all chanvis and delta libraries to your primary Runtime"

**In my experience it doesn't matter whether they are in a Runtime called Poser 5 and you are using Poser 7 - they still work and no real time gain or benefit seems apparent in moving them except making your Poser 7 runtime bigger.

Please feel free to add to the list or help to confirm or deny any of these 'myths"

Quote - "You should install all chanvis and delta libraries to your primary Runtime"

This is definitely correct for Poser 5.
For Poser 6, a lot of people found this wasn't necessary (but I found performance poor if they weren't).
Poser 7 seems to have improved the searching algorithm more, but it's probably still a case of YMMV.

I think it was the !DAZ (Runtime/libraries/!DAZ) folder that needed to be in the primary Runtime. I agree with this myth(at least with P5,6) if you don't want "please locate INJ bad teeth..." ad infinitum with a 6 minute delay on each searh. I'm guilty and I shared (it) here on several counts.

Here's a myth that goes the opposite way, and I must confess
that I helped to spread it in the past!

"Python scripts can reside anywhere on the disk."

For really simple scripts, this is true enough.  But any script that
refers to various modules, or that stores and loads data files,
needs to be in the primary or 'base' runtime of the Poser version
you're using.

Since most folks don't know or care whether the script is 'simple'
in this sense, it's always best to keep a copy of each script in
the runtime/python/poserScripts folder of the version you're using.

*"Higher Resolution means higher realism!!"

• No I don't think so... 10000 polygons on Miki's eyeballs don't make them more realistic!
  After P5 we have one powerful tool the smooth render option which lower resolution models can take advantage!

Better choreographed model is all we need not more polygons!!!!

Quote - I think it was the !DAZ (Runtime/libraries/!DAZ) folder that needed to be in the primary Runtime. I agree with this myth(at least with P5,6) if you don't want "please locate INJ bad teeth..." ad infinitum with a 6 minute delay on each searh. I'm guilty and I shared (it) here on several counts.

I have to say that I have never had that issue with INJ/REM - no matter where the !DAZ folder is...

"300 dpi gives you a higher quality render then 72 dpi"

The dpi question gets discussed every few weeks, and there's always someone giving out wrong info about it. The fact is unless you are working in real world units like inches, the dpi makes absolutely no difference to anything. It's just a tag stored in some image formats for printing purposes.

Renderers only deal with pixels, and the pixel resolution are the only numbers that matter. A 512 x 512 pixel render at 300 dpi has much less quality then a 2048 x 2048 render at 72 dpi. And a 2048 x 2048 render at 300 dpi has the exact same quality as the 72 dpi one.

and most monitors only display 72 dpi anyway..;) Printers can print at 300x300..;)

one of their techs once told me to use the numbers in the keyboard row above qwertyuiop, and not the numeric keypad, if poser didn't accept the install code. we all had a good laff over that one :lol:

How about 'Poser's for perverts'.

:P

Quote - How about 'Poser's for perverts'.

:P

Actually, that's what my wife and daughter keep telling me.
DPH

Quote - How about 'Poser's for perverts'.

:P

**Are you telling me that is a myth?

**And here I was thinking all along that it really was for perverts and that would help me pick up women - coz someone here once said "The chicks dig Poser, Man" - I'm certain no one on these forums would stretch the truth.

Quote - and most monitors only display 72 dpi anyway..;)

Adding to the myths here, I guess...

Most modern monitors are now 92 dpi and this will continue to vary upwards as monitors become better. Some hand held devices already boast 160 dpi and we may see that in monitors some day.

Poser Myth: That you'll grow hair on the palms of your hands from all of those NVITWAS pictures in the gallery. ;-) Not to mention what else will grow from using Poser...

formula to figure out the PPI (pixels per inch) of you monitor
(SQRT(W^2+H^2))/M 

square root of the sum of the set monitor resolution width plus the monitor resolution hight divided by digaonal mesurement of the viewing area

Mine is currently 86.27 (1280 x 1024, 19 inch viewing area.)

Myth: Low priced item and free give always like Apollo Max  are destroying the poser market
for "honest  hard working" merchants.

Reality: Quality and GOOD marketing always sells products even amongst a deluge of freebies
this particularly true for the poser consumer base who seems perfectly willing to $$buy $$over and over again that with they already own. How many renditions of the liquid halo/artemis -X outfits for "V"  is DAZ going to Fob off on Willing victums??

Myth: 800+ INJ/REM/CHAN/VIS DELTAS was an "innovation" that made the mill 3 figure "easier"
to use

Reality: .....Uhhhh NO!!!!
if so where are the all threads demanding to know 'WHERE ARE MY 863 NJ/REM/CHAN/VIS DELTAS
FOR V4!!!??"

 MYTH: V3-V4 can be "morphed" into a convincing "male"

Reality: NO offense the the technicians who insist on attempting this
but every one of these abominations ive seen looks like some bizarre sex change operation
gone horribly wrong.

Myth: DAZ3D has a Tyrannical monopoly over content  figure creation

REALITY: laziness ,blind loyalty to the point of supplication and worship
compounded by the herd mentality has created the Illusion that DAZ has some monopoly
over these areas.

Quote - one of their techs once told me to use the numbers in the keyboard row above qwertyuiop, and not the numeric keypad, if poser didn't accept the install code. we all had a good laff over that one :lol:

This actually is true for those using some Condensed Keyboards, because Poser 5 (and maybe 6) would pick up the combo Keystroke of the condensed keyboards. The only place you might even see that anymore is on some Laptops or people using older than the 101 keyboards. The top row always would work. 

There was also an issue with the same keyboards and the CAP Lock Key. It is rare, but it is one of those oddities of various computer designs.

Quote - > Quote - "You should install all chanvis and delta libraries to your primary Runtime"

This is definitely correct for Poser 5.
For Poser 6, a lot of people found this wasn't necessary (but I found performance poor if they weren't).
Poser 7 seems to have improved the searching algorithm more, but it's probably still a case of YMMV.

I found that it works best if you install them in the same runtime as the products which reference them.

Quote - > Quote - How about 'Poser's for perverts'.

:P

Actually, that's what my wife and daughter keep telling me.
DPH

Oddly enough, my mistress, my catamite, my cosplay lolita dominitrix catgirl, nor my extremly depraved talking walrus think so.

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 MYTH: V3-V4 can be "morphed" into a convincing "male"

Reality: NO offense the the technicians who insist on attempting this
but every one of these abominations ive seen looks like some bizarre sex change operation
gone horribly wrong.

There's myth and then there's opinion.  That's opinion, not objective truth.

Opinion again " Myth: 800+ INJ/REM/CHAN/VIS DELTAS was an "innovation" that made the mill 3 figure "easier" to use"

I find the V3 much lighter on the system, and therefore easier. As has been stated repeatedly, if you don't like it inject once, save and be done with it. But you won anyway. V4 is huge and bloated with morphs (even though she is somewhat limited in the morph area), just like you like.

And there are a number of threads asking how to trim down V4's file size.

Myth : V3/4 M3/4 can be morphed into anything you want.

sorry all, not true. yup you can do a lot with them, but lets face it. there is a point where you could model a new head quicker than trying to morph that into what you want.. and get far better results.

ppl will disagree.. but tis the truth ;)
 

Khai, maybe you can, but it would take me 2 weeks to do this so it really depends on a person's strengths and weaknesses.