I have had .dat files since 1999, but they were a Trojan byproduct! The -ExpDel- DAT files have been big trouble for me!  I just toss them, but you sometimes have to put a semicolon in front to kill them --they come back.  These were mostly AV utility "install" files --without valid icons!! .. Utilites get targeted something terrible these days!  My DAT file issue is left over from an Old Trojan and sometimes it gets a quick breath of life ('white listed bad things' from dot net?), and the AV must kill it all over again.

Have you opened those DAT files and looked to see if they are "really" Poser files?

(... buying stuff, stick $20 in your sock drawer every pay day, or more if you can --slow but steady!  I learned to love rice and tahini; and rice and scrambled eggs!) 

 

I have now spent several hours in PP2010 .. some nice, some very tedious, and some spooky .. I seemed to lose control of the cameras somehow, and things got very dicy ... more work, more practice, **more focus!! **

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If I close a scene without saving, I lose the Pose room interface??? .. odd?

 

Two quick question groups:

1.  How do I delete a folder from the library?  And does the library "only" work if I am on-line? ...

When I spend hours playing in the modeler, or PS or now Poser, ... etc, I turn off web access so I don't have to worry about it ('cause I just do)  -- then how am I going to load my stuff? -- if the Library dies?

 

Could not load Fabiana's beautiful reflective floors (mat files?) .. but the camera was driving me crazy, I could not get a perspective, and the main was under the table, and would not come out ... ?Which dials? ... much practice, I need much practice. 

Floors would not apply from the overhead camera angle in the Materials room ... Should things apply from there? or must I find a way to find them from the Pose room? .. they do not show in the library except in the Materials Room.

 

Question #2:

What is the easy way to move something across the scene? ...

None of the tools  seem to do this!!

The free option with the circles also seems to LACK a "travel with the mouse if you please" option as well!!  ARGH .. they did anything and everything except move over to the figure!!

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I had a lot of floating clothing pieces which would not go back to the figure!  ... ["I'm sorry your clothes are floating over there, and your shoes simply will not get on your feet!"]  ... this is normal for newbies, right? 

Front, right, back, left, and around again ... trying to fit the metals.

... oh, and I could not find the drop down to parent the clothes to the figure .. that might have helped a bit.  I know about it, but could not find it. Even parenting the veils to the metal would have been OK!!

How about a help file which searches from voice requests?

 

The metal swirlies for the Priestess Outfits seem to fall inside the bod sometimes .. they translate out, if you are very, very careful ... and do not distort them. 

....Parent them how many pixels away from the skin? ... I read it, I forgot part of it. Only Akio is thin enough to wear them, anyway .. but still they slide into no clothes land.

 

All and all it is a very much better program than the Poser ? I tried in '99 (ages ago), or the Poser 5 I bought which would not run on the last 2 machines.  Poser 7 which I also have would not run on those machines either ... that is why I did not do anything until now.

But this version is very nice! 

I have much to learn, but it is a nice place to learn in.