Could someone give me the proper installation path for Victoria 4(& A4, S4 etc) for Poser Pro 2012(64 bit) please?  Maybe this has been asked a million times, but I can't find that info in any of the included documents for this program from the disc.  Seems like an obvious thing to include in the docs, but I can't find that anywhere.

By default, my installer wants to choose DAZ 3D, but I need to install them into a Poser folder, right? And which ones? In what order?

Using Win7/64 by the way.

Also, what is the proper order for installing V4 & related components? Like V4 Basic, V4DS, and V4 Powerloader? 

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Yes, it's been asked to death, but YOU have never asked before, so let me see if I can help. :)

Especially with Windows 7, it is recommended that you NOT put anything in the Poser/runtime path, rather install everything to an external runtime. You can install V4 anywhere you please by placing an empty text file renamed to "poser.exe" in the root of the desired runtime.

My V4 is in E:/poserpro/V4/Runtime.

The "Poser.exe" file is in the V4 directory.

I then pointed the installer to E:/poserpro/V4 and let it rip. Ditto for the morph packs. The DS powerloader stuff is not used by poser and can be discarded. Be sure you run the batch file that will be left on your desktop to initialize V4. She's not going to accept morphs if you don't.

Hope this helps.

Use the DAZ Studio Install option and the installer will not check for poser.exe. Then you can select the path for the install.

D:Program FilesSmith MicroPoser Pro 2012

On Windows7, it is not recommended to drop your content into the Program Files folder; UAC will complicate your life.  In all actuality, there is a choice to create your content runtime in a share folder, preferably in the Documents folder when you initially install PoserPro 2012.  Many users simply do not read or understand the significance of those options, but it does take into consideration Vista/W7 installation process.  Either method of installation seems to work; for me it was creating the dummy Poser.exe from notepad.

V4DS appears to be a DAZStudio file, you don't need it.  Likewise for the powerloader; it is specific to DAZStudio.

Well, what I did was make that separate "DAZ Content" folder in Documents as some suggested and then created a  "DAZ V4" folder with a dummy "Poser.exe" and "Runtime" folders with all the various dummy library folders.  

When I chose the destination path of Documents/DAZ Content/ it created its own runtime folder & installed everything in there. I then found it in the Library inside Poser & clicked Add To.

Now the NEXT QUESTION: How do I install the Morphs ++  and Muscle  Morphs?  Same path?  

The exact same way.

When I go to install the V4 Elite series, do I need to make a separate "DAZ V4" folder for all the different Elite girls, or will it do that automatically?

Also, do I need to make a new dummy Poser.exe file for each different kind of content or Poser model? Iow, one for V4, one for A4, then S4, then hair, then props, then lights, then etc, etc, etc?

Do I need to install to the folders I already manually made for hair, props, hands, camera, library, etc, etc?

OR,

Does the installer end up pouring everything into one BIG runtime folder, face, lights, props, everything?

If I can just get everything installed correctly, then I think I can use the many tutorial videos for everything else.  Maybe.  But then again, if the tutorial videos answered everything, then there wouldn't be so many of us here on this forum. Asking everything from newbie questions like me all the way up to the rocket science questions like others here.

Go ahead and get it installed so you can start. You can always reorganize later. You're overthinking this, methinks. :)

Once you establish one dummy Poser.exe, you will not need to repeat the process for each and every runtime.  But you will need to manually direct the installer to the appropriate runtime folder of interest.  AFAIK, the installers retain previous path installations which makes it convenient if you are load content into the same folder.

Thanks for the info so far.

Maybe I am overthinking, but I want to get everything installed right the first time. Well, uh, the 2nd time. Well, no, 3rd time now. Did some hairpulling a couple nights ago not being able to find V4 in either DAZ or Poser  Pro. 

No, I've gotten absolutely nothing accomplished in the last several hours except pulling some hair out & deleting all the pre-installed characters Poser Pro 2012 had included.

No matter where I put it, even though it does recognize V4, none of the Muscle Morphs ++ or other Muscle Morphs work. I cannot get it to make any transformations to V4's body. It worked with "Alyson" in the tutorials, but not V4.  There's no point in trying to install anything else, if I can't even get these (supposedly) simple things done.  :( 

Simple question: did you update the installation?  When you install V4/M4/K4, there should be an icon created on your desktop with update in it's title (don't remember the exact name ATM).  After you install the morph package(s), you need to click on that update icon to condition the mesh to accept the morphs.  Otherwise, you will see no changes when you attempt to apply those morphs from the Library.  These instructions are clearly outlined in the readme html.

Ok, thanks. Do I need to run the update after every not only every morph, but also every hair, clothes, prop and other installs? 

The update is not necessary for props and clothing, only for each morph package installed for either of the 3 characters mentioned in the previous post.  And it should only be run once, again for each package.  No not assume that you should run update for each particular morph, it does not work that way.  For example, install the V4 Morph++ package, run update.  Then install V4 Elite morphs, again run update.  V4 Ethnic Faces Morphs, you follow the same process.  To reiterate, run update for each morph package you install for each character.  Otherwise, you will not create the necessary morph channels for the individual morphs to work properly.

OK, thanks for clearing that up.  Will do.