Hi All.
Years ago someone created a cool character from Posette called I believe: Fer Coadee.
It was a nicely morphed demon fem character with a very hot body shape and body tex.
I got it when it was available as a freebie. I installed it and used it but when sometime later I went to use it again it would not work. At the time I thought it was having to do with my system so I deleted all files relating to it and moved on., obviously forgetting this nice little figure.
Well I have been thinking about it while looking at some good printed renders from back then and wanted to reinstall it but  before iI went to all the bother I wanted to find out if there is any way for the creator of this character to include a code to time the use of the figure out after some designated time to limit its use?

That ight actually be entirely possible.. i recall someone working on some python code to actually change a character over time...

Yeah but this was before Python scripting was out there. It was in the Poser4 (possibly early PoserPro days at most).

hmm unless they installed a virus of some kind, I doubt it then.

i am on a mac so no concern for that. anything else you can think of that might have caused this to stop working?

if the archive still unzips, then it should work unless a update to poser screwed it up, or a file it depends on isn;t there anymore

Yeah. That would be the "Logical" view. Problem is the file was installed was working and then stopped working for some weird reason. It was still installed and everything was there and never frelled with from the first installation and use to the last time I tried using it.
Except the last time I tried using it it would not work. That is what has gotten me messed up.  :(

Most likely a file is missing or moved.  Are you really sure everything
is there?  And sure that every file is really what it's supposed to be?

Check the OBJ file especially.  Be sure there aren't any other OBJ
files with the same name in other parts of your computer, and try
importing the raw OBJ in Poser to see if it's still good.

Another thought:

If the figure is from pioneer days, it could well have some absolute
paths in it.  If so, change them to relative....

I have been running Poser 4 on an old PowerMac 8600/300Mhz box. Nothing is changed in it.
I NEVER remove anything from the GEOMETRY folder. I have removed some of the textures of characters I no longer use but the Fer Codee tex stayed since I can still use it for Posette and many other 3d party characters and props etc that would have nothing to do with htis figure. The file I believe was encoded to find Posette in system and once found it allowed the files to be installed by hand and it worked fine for two or three test renders. When Ir eturned to set it up for the final render neither the PZ3 file nor the Cr2 files worked. It just stopped working.  :(

Thinking about P4, another possibility. 
P4 generated an RSR file for each OBJ file.  The RSR was a sort of
compressed OBJ, and had a habit of getting lost or corrupted.
Usually just deleting the RSR would allow Poser to rebuild it.

Can you find an RSR file "near" the OBJ file, with a similar name?
Something like P4NudeWoman.rsr?  If so, delete it. 

Don't go around deleting lots of RSR files, because some of them
are important.  :)

Aren't .rsr files only seen on Windows boxes? I'm on an older Mac. No .rsr files here my friend.  :(

Don't know about the .cr2 but I've had .pz3 files get corrupted more than once. Open it in a text editor and look for damage where the file ends abruptly or has garbage characters. I know the Mac didn't use the .rsr files for thumbnails but I assumed they used the compressed geometry .rsr files. You should get an error message if that were the problem though. IIRC, a currupt .pz3 could simply fail to load with no error.

Well it gets stranger. I went back to the original .zip archive. removed all instances of the figure and reinstalled and got the same issue the second time. At least the first installation worked for a while. The subsequent installations did not.

Still trying to figure out where the original downloaded archive is so I can, through the ReadMe file, try to contact the creator. It was a limited freebie here several years ago but....well, too much Poser Water has gone under the render bridge since and it is now irrelevant to the community. But is was a lovely figure at the time.

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