Appears to be painted into the PSD files that the interface is built from.  I guess you could mod these files if the color really, really bugs you...

thank you guys for the answer about Legacy Content. In this case, I'm not interested.
After 14 failed downloas I get Poser 8 Content.
Here is "Marcus"
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1927699

Bagginsbill said about posting a suggestion on the Smith Micro support page, but i cant find where abouts, i expect i am missing something as per, but if anyone could point me in the right direction i would appreciate it.

there are 2 things i want to put forward, so if anyone agrees mabe add your voice to :D

1. Maya/RF etc style mouse navigation in main view window (i may be alone on this one :)

2 . Morphs that have been used (parameters window) highlight in different colour, as lists can be long.

tia

 Einzy.

Well, here is my take on the new Poser 8. I haven't purchased it YET, but I probably will sometime later on. I usually like to wait on these new upgrades because of bugs and the like, but I must say I am dissapointed with the new Poser version. I am a big animation fan and was hoping there would be something similar to the aniblocks add on like the one used in Daz 3D software. I have used the walk designer and the nerd 3d walk add on and they both suck! The women always walk like they have arthritis or something. I have been working painfully for hours trying to get vicky to walk more naturally and haven't yet been able to master it. I know there are BVH files for download but that can become expensive. I have a family and can't spend hours and hours in Poser to make animation look decent, that's why I love the aniblocks feature in Daz 3d BUT the Daz 3d software I feel has a ways to go to catch up with the look and feel that Poser has been able to achieve. Any suggestions?....Bueller,.....Bueller,.....Bueller?

Set up the walks you want in DAZ Studio (DAZ3D is the company, not the software) using Aniblocks, and then export them as Poser .pz2 pose files using the free PoserFileExporter. Then you can apply them in Poser.

Quote - Appears to be painted into the PSD files that the interface is built from.  I guess you could mod these files if the color really, really bugs you...

The paint-bucket tool doesn't work any more?

Update ready !

Quote - Update ready !

Uh? What? Where?

http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poser/updates.html

IF a Poser Pro user is LIKELY to upgrade to Poser Pro 2010, then getting Poser 8 costs nothing extra. SM has said that the price of Poser 8 will be subtracted from the cost to upgrade to Poser Pro 2010. Those who buy now will be invited to join the beta team of Poser Pro 2010, and will get a chance to use the software BEFORE its official release.

Or, you can pass on all of this as too much trouble and just upgrade when PP 2010 arrivers.

LMK

That was pretty quick, thanks for the heads up Anthanasius.

Update takes you to 8.0.0.10199

Quote - http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poser/updates.html

Thank you!

It's also available from your P8 order confirmation page (where you downloaded P8 from) at CP.

Unfortunately, this hotfix does not really improve the GI artifacts I was getting with the first version...

Quote - Update ready !

**@ Anthanasius ** Thanks for the update on the update

I have just booked a flight with British Airways to USA and reserved a taxi to take me to SM HQ so that I can collect the upgrade in person... as it will prolly be quicker than the download.

Only 9.3 Meg - it's a quicky.

Whichway

Oh well... better safe than sorry... and I have packed clean socks already.

Quote - Only 9.3 Meg - it's a quicky.

That's the Windows update. The Mac update is 60MB - 25 minutes at current download speed. :O(

pjz99 - I know I haven't been able to really keep up with your GI problems, but I did try the following: Used you stewer example (coins on a table) and turned Indirect Illumination OFF and still got little black dot artifacts on the extreme right of some of the coins. Do you get that as well or am I totally off base (very likely, I think)

Whichway

Check cleared, P8 and Vista Ultimate OEM on the way for the brand new CG box....!

Wheeeee!
Toys.......!

Now to start saving for the physical rack to put all the 1u, 3u, and 4u  boxes into.....

Just grabbed the wondows update here.. took less then 2 minutes to download AND install!

Check bounced, thank goodness I got P8 and Windoze 7 Ultimate on the way for the (almost) brand new CG box....!

Wheeeee!
Where do I start..! Scratches head in confusion.

Now to start bricking up the front door and windows before the repo man arrives.....

Quote - pjz99 - I know I haven't been able to really keep up with your GI problems, but I did try the following: Used you stewer example (coins on a table) and turned Indirect Illumination OFF and still got little black dot artifacts on the extreme right of some of the coins. Do you get that as well or am I totally off base (very likely, I think)

Whichway

Yes, that's the normals computation problem that many cylinders show (apparently not fixed).  I'm talking about the lighting artifacts that appear in many other places besides those.

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Check bounced, thank goodness I got P8 and Windoze 7 Ultimate on the way for the (almost) brand new CG box....!

Wheeeee!
Where do I start..! Scratches head in confusion.

Now to start bricking up the front door and windows before the repo man arrives.....

Uh oh!  Hide your organs

www.repo-opera.com/

pjz99 - Ok. I'm still a dog on the kitchen floor with this stuff - scrambling to gain some purchase.

Whichway

Is anybody else getting small (3 pixel) jagged eges in places around the edges of their renders..?

Not so far,a few test renders with default lights,draft and final quality, looked fine (and rendered fast)

Einzy

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Is anybody else getting small (3 pixel) jagged eges in places around the edges of their renders..?

yes, before and after patch...

Yes.  If you render anything beyond empty space, it seems you get artifacts.  It MAY be tied to graphics driver, but I suspect not.  I've reported this to Smith Micro via ticket.

 Thanks for the link bagginsbill. With the exception of the UI mods, the Sketch Designer appears to be exactly the same. The examples don't clarify whether or not how the feature handles transparency has been improved. I suppose I'll just have to upgrade and find out.  :-) 

Quote - Yes.  If you render anything beyond empty space, it seems you get artifacts.  It MAY be tied to graphics driver, but I suspect not.  I've reported this to Smith Micro via ticket.

Yup... thats whats happening,

If I render a figure in the open all is okay.

If I do a render of say... a figure in a room model.. and it is touching the edges of the preview window... then I get the jaggie edges.

I can live with it I guess, but its annoying having to crop the image in postwork every time to get rid of the jaggies.

Personally, I don't think it is my graphic drivers either... as other than the known graphic glitches with the UI everything is working fine display wise.

Since you guys can produce that jagged edge thing submit it to smith and include a render of the trouble and a test case. Keep Bagginsbill hopping!

Nerd <-- expert at breaking Poser

Have pasted the render on to black bacground to emphasise the jaggies...

Oh dear ... I don't have an answer. I just wanted to comment that "you know your eyes are getting old when you don't see jaggies where you're supposed to."

Ouch ... I need new glasses. LOL

Quote - Oh dear ... I don't have an answer. I just wanted to comment that "you know your eyes are getting old when you don't see jaggies where you're supposed to."

Ouch ... I need new glasses. LOL

They may not appear in that image very well, due to resizing, compression, etc., but if you have Poser 8 and set up a similar sort of scene... the jaggies are much more obvious...

If other people are experiencing the same problem of course.

My eyes are also getting old, but will never get as old as I am. (Think about that one) LOL

**ziggie said:
**> Quote -

Quote - Update ready !

**@ Anthanasius ** Thanks for the update on the update

I have just booked a flight with British Airways to USA and reserved a taxi to take me to SM HQ so that I can collect the upgrade in person... as it will prolly be quicker than the download.

Watsonville is nice, but while you're there, stop by San Juan Bautista - it's where Hitchcock's Vertigo was filmed and you can see the San Andreas fault running through the town square.

Whichway

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Trying to get the Poser 8 Library to show up....no luck.  This seems impossible,

does anyone have a step by step solution to this (I gather someone else encountered this)???
....
I don't know if it's a problem with Flash, permissions, firewall - not sure. They can help or not, but your info will contribute to the solution.

I'm having this same problem! I am very frustrated! I sent an email to tech support about it.

this is what tech support emailed me:

 Make sure you have installed the Flash Update that is available from Adobe. If you have and the issue persists, launch Poser and double click the LSMGUI.html file and launch it in your browser.

Also, verify that the LSMGUI/bin-release folder is listed as a trusted Flash application folder.

The contents should be a variant of this:
C:Program FilesSmith MicroPoser 8RuntimeuiFlexLSMGUIbin-release

It should match the main runtime installation location.

In that folder is LSMGUI.html and LSMGUI.swf, the two pieces that make up the Library GUI. Launching LSMGUI.html standalone (but Poser must be running) viewing this in your Browser may reveal the problem.
Include your Operating System and Browser in your response along with the install location of Poser 8 and the content Path.

Total brain fart my my part. But if you have a file that worked (mat pose, material file etc) in P7-Poser Pro or before that all of a sudden doesn't work in P8...if the file extension is not all small letters in P8 it will not work. At least on on an intel Mac.

Feel dumber then one of Gordon's toon characters after spending a boat load of time trying anything and everything to get something to load even if the library says it it loading, yet nothing was happening.

Quote - this is what tech support emailed me:

 Make sure you have installed the Flash Update that is available from Adobe.

That's a pretty god idea anyway, even if you don't use P8, for it was a security patch...

Kudos to P8 for forcing users to enhance security of their computers!... :-D

"Also, verify that the LSMGUI/bin-release folder is listed as a trusted Flash application folder."

Say what?????  How do you do this?????

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Quote - Oh dear ... I don't have an answer. I just wanted to comment that "you know your eyes are getting old when you don't see jaggies where you're supposed to."

Ouch ... I need new glasses. LOL

They may not appear in that image very well, due to resizing, compression, etc., but if you have Poser 8 and set up a similar sort of scene... the jaggies are much more obvious...

If other people are experiencing the same problem of course.

My eyes are also getting old, but will never get as old as I am. (Think about that one) LOL

@ziggie: I only get these artifacts if I have at least one light with raytraced shadows in the scene. Can you confirm this?
 

EDIT: Forget my post, they also appear with depth map shadows.

@grichter:
I noticed that on page 3 of this thread, so this is my mistake. Go and find one of your own! LOL

@ Latexluv: If your firewall asks about permissions for those files just allow their actions and mark whatever box your firewall has to remember that choice.

As far as I know, I'm not behind a firewall. I did hunt down Flash inside of Windows/system32 folder and there is a file in there called Posertrust.cfg.

don't touch that unless you really know that you're doing. You most likely have an OS firewall, like windows defender or some such thing. When Poser tries to access the flash component it should as you if this action is OK.

I am running Windows XP. I do not have Windows Defender, whatever that could be. But I do have Spybot - Search & Destroy that watches registry entries. Could this be messing with things?

XP has a built in fire wall. I never used XP so I'm not the best to answer this. Basically look in control panel for firewall or some such thing. There will be a place to add "exceptions" make sure all the LSMGUI stuff is trusted and well and Poser.exe this should have happened the first time you ran poser. It would have asked it Poser was allowed to access LSMGUI. If you clicked "no" you basically have to manually undo that wrong answer now.

A friend is helping me navigate. We went into Control Panel, into Security. I am NOT using Windows Firewall, but I clicked the Exceptions tab anyway and added Poser 8 and the Flash10 exe as well. I could not add LSMGUI directly because it's not a program.

One more thing: Does shift+click "remove detached nodes" in the material room work for you?