I went through a lot of this forum hoping another newbie was having my problem. But, I couldn't find it. Why is it, when I get a picture just the way I want, camera angle is perfect, all lines up great and then I go to tweak one of the models, like lift a chin or turn a head etc...the camera jumps... I lose the whole setup and it's almost impossible to get it just right again. This is driving me nuts. Any help would be great. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

Are you using the face or hand camera? They will move if you move the head or hand. The others shouldn't though unless you are moving through an animation and have not turned off the camera's own animation.

Because all I want is a scene, what is in front of me, I never touch the cameras. I do ebook covers, so all I want is a nice pretty picture. But who knows, maybe I hit them by accident. Thanks, will keep an eye on them. There a way to remove or lock them?

Yes, select the camera then go to Object/Lock Actor and it will stay put. The face and hand cameras will still follow those parts but the distance and angle to them will remain constant.

Thank you very much for the help. ~S~

I used to have to same problem. After I updated to v4.03 it seems to be fixed. I have have not had to lock the camera after the 4.03 patch.

This does still happen occasionally with me even with all the patches using the Main Camera. I just do an Undo right away, but there are a few other things you can do to lock your camera in. Use the Camera Dots to save the camera. Since these arn't saved with the Poser file, they arn't that usefull. The best way is to save the Camera in the Camera Library so it is always available and can be recalled if it gets "lost".

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Happens to me, too, even with the Main camera. It started with the knight/dragon image and, since it was the first scene that really taxed my machine's memory to the limits I attributed it to some misbehavior related to that stress. Were you in a high-poly scene at the time, or was everything still panning nicely? I'm curious, the answer would help narrow down my own cause. Thanks! Mark

Actually all I had was two people, the p4 man and woman, I had him in the forground, mostly just his face, with her small in the background. There wasn't anything for scenery, black screen. I ended up scrapping the idea. But I had the same problem when I was doing a close up near kiss shot as well. But started over with yet another idea and was able to get it. For referance I'm running a PIII 730 with 512mg of ram, two hard drives a 20 and a 6 poser is on the 20 and it's only half full if that (it's new filling rapidly with poser stuff ~G~) Glad to see it's not only me though.

Hmm. Mine's an Athlon 850 with a 64MB voodoo5 card and at least 20 gig of free drive space, but having only 128meg of memory is a problem when I get silly with Poser. I'm kind of glad you added that, I was going to buy more memory to see. Clearly it doesn't correlate with memory, so that scraps that idea (and saves me some $$). I hear you about the rapid fill-up! :-D I'm using up blank CDs at a prodigious rate now, and forget my ZIP drive, it's nowhere close to being big enough to make more disks worth getting! The burner was the best back-up security I ever bought. Mark

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In January I did my upgrade from a PII etc. I found the extra memory on sale after the upgrade. Of course the machine was over all faster compared to what I had, but when I doubled memory it was faster yet. I highly recomment more memory if you can find it on sale sometime. I went with the all in wonder pro video card. Has a few frills I wanted at a price I could afford (or not afford, visa is still suffering) I have a HP cd writer, just so damn un organized. I have to get better at that. I was trying to save just the directories out of poser where we add files to a cd...it works, but when I want to update it, it tells me it's locked... For the life of me I can't figure it out. Another headache that I put on the back burner, too much to learn in Poser to worry about it... which of course means I'm due for a hd crash soon ~G~ I have included the url for some of my first renders. Want to do a better hp before I really go public with it.