I was reading on some forums that there is a specific way to upload the Victoria 4.1 model from DAZ studios into Poser 8 I was wondering if someone could help me out I tried to upload her and she is not showing up lol
Thank you in advance you all have been so helpful
Angie

Er, there is no uploading involved.

Do you have Victoria installed in a runtime?

Sorry I am very very new I just got my Poser today lol I used the install program but I was not sure where to put the files at as there were 3 with Victoria and I am afraid that is what I must of done wrong lol
Angie

When you unpack Victoria, you're prompted for a location to save her to. This should always be the parent folder of a runtime. Once you get a lot of content, you'll likely want multiple runtimes, but for now I'm guessing you only have the runtime that got created with your Poser 8 install. Do you know where that runtime is on your hard drive? (When installing P8, you're also given runtime location options, so this isn't a given.)

In my case, I chose to install my P8 runtime to My Documents (I'm on XP Pro). So my P8 runtime is here:

C:Documents and SettingsUsernameMy DocumentsPoser 8 Contentruntime

So I would intall V4 to:

C:Documents and SettingsUsernameMy DocumentsPoser 8 Content

... and she'll wind up in the runtime.

Bottom line is that when installing V4 (or any other relatively recent properly formed Poser content - some really old stuff has to be dealt with manually) and prompted for a location to install to, browse to the folder that contains your runtime.

Thank you I tried to do as  you explained but when it got to location of the file I tried to change it to Runtime but it came up with a pop saying "File must be located in same area where the Poser.exe file is located at so I downloaded it to my Poser 8 location and of course it is not working or showing up for me in Poser lol
Angie

Quote - Thank you I tried to do as  you explained but when it got to location of the file I tried to change it to Runtime but it came up with a pop saying "File must be located in same area where the Poser.exe file is located at so I downloaded it to my Poser 8 location and of course it is not working or showing up for me in Poser lol
Angie

I suggest contacting Daz about this.

Doll, this is due to an old flaw with how V4 interacted with old Poser versions. There are two things you can do.

1. When prompted for application, say you're installing V4 for use in DAZ Studio. This won't change the operability of V4, it just stops the installer from looking for the Poser.exe in your folder.

2. You can create a dummy Poser.exe file in the folder that contains your runtime.

The way to create a dummy file is to open notepad on a PC, type in some jiggerish, and save it as Poser.txt.  Close the application, locate your text file and change the extension to exe.  Go into the folder where Poser is installed on your hard drive, double check that 'Poser.exe' does not already exist (don't want to overwrite the original file) and afterwards place the converted text file into the folder.  I haven't looked yet but I am assuming that Poser 8 does not follow the old Poser.exe convention from previous versions excluding PoserPro.  Afterwards, try reinstalling your V4.1. 

The way to create a dummy file is to open notepad on a PC, type in some jiggerish, and save it as Poser.txt.  Close the application, locate your text file and change the extension to exe.  Go into the folder where Poser is installed on your hard drive, double check that 'Poser.exe' does not already exist (don't want to overwrite the original file) and afterwards place the converted text file into the folder.  I haven't looked yet but I am assuming that Poser 8 does not follow the old Poser.exe convention from previous versions excluding PoserPro.  Afterwards, try reinstalling your V4.1. 

I don't even think you need to write anything in the file... Just right click in the Poser 8 content folder and choose New -> Text document. It'll be called New.txt or something (depending on language settings)  - and it should be enough to rename the empty new.txt to Poser.exe

Of course one must switch on the "show extensions for known filetypes" to be able to rename it in the first place. 

If you're all new to Poser (welcome btw!) - it's probably easiest to use the Daz Studio option and navigate to the Poser 8 content folder and install her there :)

Poser 8 still has the Poser.exe name convention. If she's getting the alert she did, she presumably didn't install the content to the Poser 8 program directory (you're given a choice on install).

It's good to see that they are still sticking to the old convention.  PoserPro is not like that.  I believe the confusion stems from the Poser installer and Poser executable for opening the program.

Yeah, I know Poser Pro is not like that (it's what I started on; I didn't have regular Poser until P8), as it's not supposed to be "the same program."

I don't like what DAZ has done with V4's installer in this regard. I think the issues about needing to install in the Poser directory were dealt with by something like P6. I suspect anyone with an older version of Poser than that who doesn't have V4 by now probably never will.