Quote - the trap is set.

Ah...  Yessss.....  But with what kind of cheese..???

CHEESE! Did someone say Cheese?.. I always have had this weakness for Cheese and will spill the beans (out of the bean bowl) to take any offers of Cheese!

Quote - Soon... (c;

Thank goodness this isn't a certain other Forum, or we'd be waiting a looong time...

Quote - CHEESE! Did someone say Cheese?.. I always have had this weakness for Cheese and will spill the beans (out of the bean bowl) to take any offers of Cheese!

How about a Nice Stilton,   delicately dipped in a well matured port..

Quote - 14 miserable days later, 14 days of constant one-step-forward-two-steps-back, and I have managed to produce only one - hugely flawed - render.

Maybe its time to try a new renderer.  If you have a decent nVidia graphics card then I would recommend the new GPU accelerated Octane Render which is currently being offered at half price during beta testing.  Save out in obj and import into Octane for rendering.  See if that solves your problem.

I never had problems with Poser or really any other program until I installed Vista. I ended up going back to XP on my laptop. And installed W7 on the desktop as soon as I could. XP seems more stable than W7. When funds allow, I am looking to get a more powerful desktop with XP installed.

Nolos
I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!

Speaking of Poser 8 taking over CPU cycle, I just installed a script that allows turning on and off the P8 library.
Guess what. My problems have now ended. All is speedy again.

Crap library ? Where is it going all the time?

I'm thinking HeadCheese might be the ticket

Quote - > Quote - the trap is set.

Ah...  Yessss.....  But with what kind of cheese..???

Poser is a great app for what it does, but it doesn't do everything great. It never has and even if it ever does, it will just chew up too much in resources. For character creation and scene setup, there's nothing better . . . .

I'll never turn away from Poser . . . .  6!

I have P8 on five 'pooters and PP2010 on two, all running fine.  I have a mix of WinXP 32bit, Vista 32bit, Vista 64bit.

And how does P8/PP2010 preview tiled materials on your machine?  Does it show one instance of the texture image across the whole material zone (i.e., untiled), or do you see the materials properly tiled in preview?  Needless to say, being able to see just where the edges will line up is a great benefit when dialing in material settings.

SreeD preview - tiling is lost

OpenGL preview with hardware shading used - materials are properly tiled:

Look at your settings in the render settings, preview tab:

The P8 library is talking to Poser to ask it if its OK to show you things. As you switch rooms or select different objects in the scene, it changes what you see. The technique employed does not cost much performance at all on 99% of users machines.  For some systems, it does. Nobody knows why.

We changed the mechanism in Poser Pro 2010, so there is no polling anymore. The P8 SR3 will include the new version.

Quote - CHEESE! Did someone say Cheese?.. I always have had this weakness for Cheese and will spill the beans (out of the bean bowl) to take any offers of Cheese!

I'm finding Goat Cheese mighty tasty these days!

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SreeD preview - tiling is lost

I actually like the look of that big face on the roof!

Quote - The P8 library is talking to Poser to ask it if its OK to show you things. As you switch rooms or select different objects in the scene, it changes what you see. The technique employed does not cost much performance at all on 99% of users machines.  For some systems, it does. Nobody knows why.

We changed the mechanism in Poser Pro 2010, so there is no polling anymore. The P8 SR3 will include the new version.

My system is one that that it does cost system resources. I installed D3D's Start/Stop Flex Library and it helped a lot as far as speeding things up :o).

Laurie

Quote - Poser is a great app for what it does, but it doesn't do everything great. It never has and even if it ever does, it will just chew up too much in resources. For character creation and scene setup, there's nothing better . . . .

I'll never turn away from Poser . . . .  6!

And nor will This old Geezer...      Sometimes I just like to bitch....   Getting older,  but not too much wiser..!

Quote - > Quote - Poser is a great app for what it does, but it doesn't do everything great. It never has and even if it ever does, it will just chew up too much in resources. For character creation and scene setup, there's nothing better . . . .

I'll never turn away from Poser . . . .  6!

And nor will This old Geezer...      Sometimes I just like to bitch....   Getting older,  but not too much wiser..!

If you're just getting into Poser, no reason not to start with the latest version, but the upgrades only seem to upgrade things I don't use Poser for, mainly rendering. I really can't think of anything I'd want Poser to do that P6 doesn't do and doubt I'd render in it if it were as stable as the apps I do use because I can continue to work in Poser while I'm rendering elsewhere.