I recently purchased Poser 2012. To facilite work flow, I loaded it onto two seperate computers sitting side by side so I could set up animations on one computer then send it to the second computer via a file transfer cable for rendering while working on the next scene on the first computer. But, when I try to save anything, a little window comes up and says "Someone out there is using the same serial number!" and shuts me down.

Does this make me a criminal? Is there any way around this? Why do I always end up feeling like Smith Micro is eager to take a dump on me?

that's because you aren't supposed to use it on 2 computers at the same time.  If it's only rendering, I vaguely recall theres a render Q application in later versions of Poser which should do what you want

(sorry I can't be any more precise than that - I don't render in Poser)

You can only run one copy at a time of Poser on a shared network (home network).  Nothing unique about that; it happens with previous versions.  However, you can render in background which will allow you to continue working in Poser and other scenes.

Quote - I recently purchased Poser 2012. To facilite work flow, I loaded it onto two seperate computers sitting side by side so I could set up animations on one computer then send it to the second computer via a file transfer cable for rendering while working on the next scene on the first computer. But, when I try to save anything, a little window comes up and says "Someone out there is using the same serial number!" and shuts me down.

Does this make me a criminal? Is there any way around this? Why do I always end up feeling like Smith Micro is eager to take a dump on me?

yeah like the others say ..thats a no no .. but .. euh... switch one off the network ..

so one is not connected to the internet or your home network..and no popups or shutdown s anymore

But its more cool to just get a extra license ..at 60 bucks orso .. 

If you have poserpro2012, why don't you use queuemanager for rendering on the second computer? That's completely legal and it is made for this purpose: You can set up a whole network of five computers just for rendering animations. (what FrankT mentioned, sorry I overread that) I've tried it at home with my wife's and daughter's computers and my laptop and it works great. (In fact, I did that with poserpro2010, but I'm suppose 2012 will work the same way, haven't tried that yet)

Best regards,

Bopper.

Installing the Queue manager on multiple systems to create a render farm.
Manual Page 26
Using the Queue Manager from Page 411 in the manual.

You can ONLY Run One Poser licence in a home network.
But you can use Queue manager installations to distribute background renderings.
=> Render In Queue in the render settings.

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You can ONLY Run One Poser licence in a home network.

Is that one poser licence at a time? (meaning both with the same serial number) or just one copy of Poser, period?

I am about to buy a second license for a win7 laptop I drag around with me while traveling, vs my old Mac Book Pro. Base unit is a Mac Pro desktop. When at home I plan to run both on the same network, and even connected to a network drive array.

You can run it in as many machines as you want, as long as you have individual licenses for each machine. 

If the Queue Manager doesn't work for you out of any reason you can as well save the whole animation and use the Script CollectSceneInventory (Scripts Menu-->Utilities) and save out everything you need to render. Then move it to the server and when your work on your main computer is done shut down Poser, start it on the Server, open the scene and render it (while you sleep). You can install Poser on a second computer (I run a complete backup on my server just for the case everything goes overboard on my main pc) without the need to have a second license - this way you can choose the place where you work as you desire it.

Ahem... if your content runtimes are not on second computer, your PZ3 file might contain confusing reference links over the network, and your second poser application could get a headache.  Use the Q Manager, if possible.

The Collect-Script really works. I've tried it out with the Smith-Micro support: They needed a pz3 that caused an error here and beside V4 all I used for the scene was not available on their site (textures, custom-morph, clothes, hair). I used the "Collect Scene Inventory" script to send them the scene and they where able to recreate the error.

I tried the same with a customer who had a problem with Antonia and a converted dynamic item by me. I have Antonia and my own original product of course but I did not have the materials he made on his own and most of all not the converted clothing (WW2 creates a new object). So I asked him to collect the scene inventory and to send it with the pz3 and I could open it flawlessly, it even contained all the render-settings, the handmade materials and textures and so on.

Thanks guys! This is great information!