I cannot install her What am I doing wrong Its says something about the excutable file? Whats up with this

You need to install her in your main poser directory along with V4 (and her morphs ++ package I think)   :-)

-Sarah

Yes, A4 is dependent on V4 and needs to be in the same folder (well, at least that's where the installer put it!)

What is it saying about the executable?

Says its looking for the exe file?

Looking for it?

The installer IS the executable. But then, i'm not familiar with how installers work. I suppose there are executables inside the installer, maybe? Does it give a name for this exe file?

When you have a localized version of Poser, e. g. German, French or so you have to have a Poser.Exe in your runtime. In earlier days it has been anough to have a poser.exe with 0 bytes in the runtime, now you have to rename the i. e. PoserF.exe to Poser.exe and install A4. after that you should rename it again, or you have to place a copy of your Poserx.exe in your Runtime and rename it to Poser.exe.

Wow thanks that makes sense but why would they do it like that?

because peoples rename their poser directory, by asking for the executable you can determine the absolute root path to the poser main directory without getting to confusing.  it does nothing with the poser exe, it is just using it for orientation, it is hard to predefine a comfortable install path to a installation program which does not have a registry check to look where poseris installed. peoples change the location of the poser folder, or move it out of the program files directory. the installer asks you for the poser exe, because when you know the position of the exe, you know where the runtime folder is located

Why not just have the installer ask where you have poser installed instead of looking for a file that may or may not be present on a particular system (ie there is no poser.exe in a poser pro install)?  I would think that your average user would know what directory they installed a program into.  Of course, DAZ has no real vested interest in making their installers Poser friendly since they are trying to push studio down everyones throat as the next better thing than poser (sorry DAZ....aint gonna happen...studio still sux).

in fact it works with every executable, it does not even have to be called poser, for the daz studio products there is a different installer , and on some installers even have a option to pick which one you want to install ,daz or poser, but this installer has a registry check, making it automaticly know where your poser is installed.

the fact that they ask for the poser executable is just a convinient way to avoid confusion, because the "where do you have installed poser to" question is really relative..   "i have installed it to c:"  "i have installed it to program files"  ..many answers which are essentialy right, but not really correct.   there is just one spot where your poser executable canbe located, and from this spot theres only one possible way where your main runtime can be located.   they could ask for a different unique file in your poser root folder, but the executable is more of an eyecatcher, something you know where it is just from clicking it all the time, also easy to find when you right click the shortcut and tell windows to take you to the folder where the exe is.   its the same with daz studio product installers.  the only thing daz has to change is to use a uniform installer system, right now there are 3 different installers as far i know for their newest items

Simply choose DAZ Studio and not Poser when you run the installer - it lets you install the files to a temp folder and even the updater works when it inserts the necessary channels for the morph packs into the Cr2. Then simply move the installed files from your temp folder to whatever runtime - works perfectly and no need to rename any Poser exe to please the installer.

Ok thanks everyone I will try all of these... HE HE