**http://poser.smithmicro.com/updates.html
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My apologies for the quietness of late. We've been working on a few time-consuming projects behind the scenes, the first of which being this really big Service Release 2.0 for Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012. April and May are going to be busy months for us, we have two characters in the works, Poser 9 Japanese was just released in... wait for it... Japan, and by mid-May we should have the German version complete and available.

Here's the Read Me info, there a lot there. My apologies for long read. But it might be worth checking out to find more than a few nuggets in there. Note - SR2 includes all the new fixes and improvements below as well as everything from SR1. SR2 will update either the shipping version of Poser 9 and Pro 2012 or the SR1 updated versions as well.

Cheers,

Steve Cooper
Poser Product Manager

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READ ME INFO

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Smith Micro Software, Inc. and the Poser team are pleased to announce that the Poser Pro 2012 Service Release 2 (SR2) is now available for both Mac OS X and Windows. SR2 will update your non-beta version of Poser Pro 2012 English to the latest version.

SR2 offers several enhancements and addresses known issues present in the following areas:

• General performance and stability updates and improvements
• Content Library improvements
• Face Room improvements
• Cloth Room improvements
• Preview Rendering improvements
• Final Rendering improvements
• Animation improvements
• Rigging/Figure Set-up improvements
• PoserPython improvements

In order to download Poser Pro 2012 SR2 or receive technical support for the product, you must have registered your Poser Pro 2012 application serial number. If you have not yet done so, please register now at http://www.smithmicro.com/support/product-registration.aspx

With your registered Poser Pro 2012 serial number, you can access and download SR2 at http://poser.smithmicro.com/poserproupdates.html

SR2 Enhancements and Fixes, by Category

General
• Improved handling of floating point input in popup text entry fields
• Added ability to override keyboard accelerators with keyboard-layout specific Poser.xrc (e.g. PoserKBGerman.xrc)
• Further improved behavior of color picker (Mac OS X only)
• Importing a scene with cloth simulations now doesn't clear the caches of cloth simulations that are already in the scene
• Corrected calculation of Point At in some IK/dependency situations
• Cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts are now enabled in system text fields such as those of a file dialog (Mac OS X only)
• Action buttons (e.g. Render, Area Render, etc) are now right-aligned in Scene/Render palette when in Render tab
• Improved responsiveness of WebKit-based palettes (Content room, Library, Project Guide; Mac OS X only)
• Can now cancel drag/drop operations by hitting 'escape' key
• Fixed problems when parsing non-ansi names in content files
• Fixed case where center-of-mass actors were created with the wrong parentage when figures did not have them explicitly created.
• Now saving/loading Preview Depth Bias to PZ3
• Removed serial number display from splash screen. Please access serial number via Help > About or Help > Personalize.
• Fixed case where importing OBJ with an Offset value resulted in subsequent imports applying the same offset even if option was not checked
• Now adding to existing parameter groups when applying pose file, avoiding re-creation of group if pose contains new channels
• Orthographic cameras now behave properly with space mouse
• Injection poses read into wrong figure would change first existing target parm when matching parm not found.
• Now storing actor/parameter/figure names internally as arbitrary length strings (previously had 32 byte limit)
• Clicking on the resize widget for Point At no longer causes the palette to disappear.
• Group nodes in injection files are now handled properly without deleting or duplicating existing groups
• Fixed naming of shadow cameras to match light number upon importing scene
• Fixed case where editing parameter value while visibility channel present in scene would cause instability
• Improved accuracy of drag/drop of items to Poser's Preview panel
• Improved parameter manipulation performance when visibility channels are present in scene
• Fixed opening scene by double-clicking file (Windows only)
• Fixed multithreaded bending calculation problem that could cause instability (Windows only)
• Fixed case where large sound files would cause instability. Restored preview sound blips while scrubbing (Mac OS X only).
• Now preventing script error dialogs in Content Room (Windows only)
• Fixes incorrectly specified primaryDeformers when reading content

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Content Library***
• Now automatically negotiating alternative port number if default library communication port is occupied (Windows only)
• Improved consistency of file search when loading scenes and other content.
• Improved look of panel that appears in place of Content Library when system does not have Flash plugin installed
• Non-ascii characters in folder names now show up properly in Content Library

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Face Room***
• Now displaying warning if duplicate Face room database files are encountered upon launch, avoiding silent exit

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Cloth Room***
• Improved stability in Cloth room

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Preview Rendering***
• Can now zoom in the Preview window with the mouse scroll wheel (configurable in General Preferences > Interface)
• Gamma node now previews correctly in OpenGL
• Realtime depth map shadow bounding box now includes morphed vertices, eliminating some shadow artifacts
• Line width settings now properly stored in preferences when preferred scene is saved

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Final Rendering***
• Subsurface Scattering: Enabled Scatter_Group to allow specification of distinct groups, avoiding artifacts occurring in conjunction with indirect light. We recommend grouping occluded surfaces in close proximity to visible surfaces into groups distinct from those surfaces.
• Fixed a rare occurrence of black squares when using the Custom_scatter node
• Fixed certain grid artifacts when combining displacements with very strong bump maps
• Improved accuracy of bump maps seen through refractions
• Improved accuracy of bump maps seen in reflections
• Fixed case where rendering in Queue Manager lead to unexpected shading results or objects omitted from final image
• Corrected scaling of background image when rendering
• Improved accuracy of Ambient Occlusion in conjunction with strand based hair (requires additional computation effort that might affect performance)
• More robust handling of corrupt MIP map files

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Animation***
• Fixed problems involving undo of keyframe changes to a layer
• Frame number in Animation drawer palette was not updating with Graph palette frame changes
• Animation playback can now be stopped when using a Wacom tablet
• Fixed problem when resizing Add Constraint dialog
• Make Movie: Fixed instability upon exporting Quicktime movie with sound (32-bit Mac OS X only)
• Fixed text drawing in Animation Palette when system text is set larger than default (Windows only)

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Rigging/Figure Set-up***
• Symmetry of leg will now recurse from foot down so toes are included
• Fixes pick-switching in some weight painting cases
• Fix for symmetry of smoothscale weight maps
• Fixes for editing of smoothscale deformers affecting more than one actor. Might require re-adding affected actors to propagate.
• Fixed case where figure would load with missing body parts after applying skeleton of figure to static mesh in Setup room
• Joint Editor: End points now display for parts with more than one child
• Enabled editing of falloff zones selected via right-click context menu
• Joint Editor: Now updating joint zone after manipulating preview dial
• Newly created sphere zones should work upon creation now.
• Setup room: Fixed cases where deleting bones would cause instability
• Fixes weight map transfer problems when loading figures in setup room. Multiple attempts will now work.
• Weight map data on body parts with no geometry are cleared out when writing files now.
• Improved smoothing of bulge maps that include extra body parts.
• Fixed case where undoing bone changes with weight maps would cause instability
• Fixes deletion of bulge maps shared by more than one body part
• Fixed non-display of bones if body part has empty geometry
• Improved quality of weight map transfer between figures
• Renaming bones with a space could cause improperly named joint channels
• Fixed case where undoing bone changes with weight maps would cause instability
• Improved Weight map transfer during symmetry
• Added message to symmetry dialog noting that joint zone copying is not undoable
• Joint Editor: Fixed SmoothScale GUI layout problems

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PoserPython***
• Introduced new Python methods for creating, editing and deleting value operations (dependent parameters)
• poser.Scene().CurrentActor() now returns None when no actor is selected
• ListFiles.py now also lists PMD files used
• Changed behavior of SetConformTarget() method, now conforms figures in the same fashion as drag & drop via library GUI
• Added [Set]MatchEndpointsWhenConforming(), [Set]IncludeMorphsWhenConforming(), [Set]IncludeScalesWhenConforming() methods
• Strings returned by Python functions are now Unicode (of type types.UnicodeType instead of types.StringType)

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PoserFusion***
• PoserFusion for LightWave 3D: Re-enabled locating missing Poser scene file for LightWave-hosted scene
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Known Issues**
• If the Joint Editor is too narrow to display all controls while in its minimum position, select 'Launch to factory state' on the General Preferences Interface tab or delete your custom preferences and open the new default UI. Then arrange your UI as desired.
• When exporting bump maps with COLLADA format, you may need to update to a recent version of Photoshop to read bump maps as written by Poser.
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Previous SR1 Enhancements and Fixes, by Category**

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General***
• Added a new conform option on Body actor to force end point matching. Enable to work around conforming issues with legacy content.
• Added Edit > Copy Picture functionality (Mac OS X only)
• Enabled comma as decimal separator for actor properties and parameter settings
• Enabled Hide Actor context menu item
• Enabled Orbit Selected mode for 3D input devices. Holding Shift key limits motion to rotation, holding Control key limits to translation.
• Fixed an issue where certain cameras could not be controlled by the Space Mouse
• Newly created cameras now more functional when manipulated with 3D input device
• Optimized preview performance when using 3D input device to move camera with object parented to it
• Figures with IK load into scene obeying IK settings as saved to library
• Improved robustness of external binary morph handling
• Morphs now work on additional instances of the same morphing prop in the scene
• Fixed case where injecting morph targets to a figure stored in the library with binary morph targets would lead to losing injected morph targets upon saving scene
• Fixed case where injecting, removing, and re-injecting morph pose set that included valueOps was duplicating value ops
• Fixed case where light intensity parameter values greater than 100% would be limited to 100% after rendering
• Fixed case where light scale parameter values greater than 100% would be limited to 100% upon opening a saved scene
• Enabled import of 3DS and LWO files from paths with non-ASCII characters
• Synchronized set of supported video codecs for import with set of codecs for export
• Fixed case where line breaks would be inconsistent in exported OBJ files due to NaN vertex normal values
• Now allowing to select objects parented to grouping object for export
• Fixed cursor display issues (Mac OS X only)
• Fixed cursor flickering (Mac OS X only)
• Help > Personalize no longer returns error on entering valid serial numbers
• Improved dynamic hair collision accuracy
• Color picker now closes when mouse is clicked outside of its window (Mac OS X only)
• Improved color picker reliability (Mac OS X Leopard only)
• Now displaying bitness of Poser Pro executable in title bar
• Now suppressing 'Deleted stale lock file...' message on launch.
• Now updating cameras pointed at current actor or certain body parts on figure change. Fixed case where wrong figure would be chosen.
• Resolved instabilities in Wardrobe Wizard

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Content Library***
• Drag and Drop from Scene category now imports library scene content into current scene
• Enabled display of items with name containing '%' or '#' character
• Improved cursor visibility in Library (Mac OS X only)
• Improved responsiveness of embedded Content Library (Mac OS X only)
• Improved responsiveness of external Content Library (Mac OS X only)
• Now offering to include value parameter information on Body actor upon adding pose to library
• Now showing 'check privileges' warning dialog when attempting to add Runtime library with missing category folders from read-only location

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Material Room***
• Enhanced OpenGL preview of custom_scatter node
• Improved granularity of Ks (Ks_Microfacet node), Scale (Scatter node) and IOR (Fresnel Blend node) parameter dials

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Preview Rendering***
• Fixed indication of currently selected actor
• Fix for interactive display of spot shader node
• Fixed case where loading texture for Preview would fail
• Fixed case where textures would load upside down if the Preview Texture Resolution is set to >512 before loading texture
• Improved preview of image map node
• Improved quality of real time shadow maps on certain hardware
• Improved refresh performance when switching between rooms
• Improved refresh performance when switching from render window to preview window. OpenGL shaders and textures no longer need to reload after a render.
• Improved stability on launch (Intel GMA graphics chipsets only)
• Shadows toggle in document window now allows choosing between four shadow display options (drop and realtime depth map shadows)
• Optimized preview performance when using Space Mouse to move camera

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Final Rendering***
• 3D Motion blur now properly supports geometry switching
• Improved accuracy of 3D motion blur when camera is moving
• Area Render selection in Render Tab now draws correctly (Mac OS X only)
• Fixed artifacts where textures could go missing when rendering with a large number of threads
• Fixed case where access to render cache would fail due to non-western characters in cache path, resulting in empty Render tab
• Improved ray tracing performance in certain scenarios
• Improved rendering of shadows for transparency maps in IDL
• Improved rendering of subsurface scattering when lights have shadow strengths over 1.0
• Improved stability of Subsurface Scattering computation
• Improved robustness of Subsurface Scattering computation
• Now correctly handling normals when NormalsForward is enabled in conjunction with Ambient Occlusion, fixing case where mesh would become visible in occluded area
• Rendering in Background: Now maintaining correct order for caching rendered image and actually rendering it, fixing case where rendering would be skipped

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Animation***
• Corrected preview of animation resulting from constraint channel relationship, after reloading scene
• Enabled undo for deletion of constraints
• Corrected start and end frame handling for animation layers
• Enabled undo for modifications to animated joint centers
• Improved key frame copying performance.
• Selecting top row in Animation palette now selects entire figure again

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Queue Manager***
• Now computing indirect light and subsurface scattering in correct order
• Queue Manager now renders scenes viewed from the face camera in scenes with multiple figures correctly
• Fixed infinite loop that could occur with ray traced shadows and strand-based hair

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Rigging/Figure Set-up***
• Enabled dependent parameter support for Bulge joint parameter values
• Improved transfer of rigging information between meshes
• Now disabling vertex weight painting if no weight map zones are present
• Enabled redo of merging zones after painting vertex weight map
• Now refreshing view after undo of vertex weight map painting

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PoserPython***
• Enabled poser.Scene().CopyToClipboard() (Mac OS X only)
• Exposed parm.AddZone() method. Passing kZoneTypeCodeMERGEDWEIGHTMAP allows automated creation of merged weight map.
• Fixed case where collectSceneInventory would miss some referenced files
• Fixed case where wxPython error would cause instability upon exiting Poser
• Improved OpenGL preview of material collections loaded by Python scripts
• Improved stability when handling wxPython error resulting from attempt to set menu as submenu that is already a submenu of some menu
• Improved stability of callbacks
• Enabled ClearUpdateCallback()
• Added poser.Arch() to enable scripts to identify bitness

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Documentation***
• Added missing Reference manual pages (496, 497)
• Corrected area render caption in Reference manual
• Corrected Reference manual information on adding runtime libraries. Documented creation of directories.
• Corrected typo in Reference manual
• Removed erroneous reference to Tutorial manual

Thanks for the info. It's appreciated that you are taking the time to keep us informed. Sounds like the folks at Smith Micro have been busy doing good work!

The Smith Micro Website isn't accepting my Upgrade Serial number. Most likely because I bought through CP. Is there a CP download link for the SR2?

You fixed my Bug!  And a few others too...

Disregard my last post. Doh! I was using the wrong serial number.

Yep, that's a lot of improvement and I see you fixed some issues I stumbled over. :thumbupboth: Thanks for keeping us up to date - running now to get my SR2!!

Whoa, that's a nice list of fixes/improvements! Thanks. :D

Nice work. Thanks. :biggrin:

Excellent - many thanks for this update, to all involved. Especially all the OS X performance tweaks.

Cheers ;-)

Some nice improvements and fixes, thank you for that!! But I hope in future some more things in Cloth room will come. Like Marvelous-Designer-3D show us.

Mazak

I am happy for this and can't wait to see the new characters released you were talking about.  I wish we could at least get a little preview.

Does the Japanese Poser ship with different figures?

Quote - I am happy for this and can't wait to see the new characters released you were talking about.  I wish we could at least get a little preview.

Does the Japanese Poser ship with different figures?

Interesting question. The Japanese version of Poser includes the same content as in the English version. Our Japanese partners have in the past included a unique figure, but this time around are going with the stock content.

FWIW? One of the biggest jobs in Poserdom aside from delivering Poser itself? Delivering Poser J and Poser DE. Yikes! IEach version includes a fully translated set of documentation (over 800 pages in the manual) translated voice overs in the videos in the included Quick Start tutorials, translation of every UI element, field, dialog, and even some content. Enormous job. But it's what we do in the world of supported software, with every version we've ever released.

Now that we got that out of the way, back to working on new stuff!

BTW I've loved the new Poser tutorial videos you've put out recently, please supply more, I learned a lot about lighting I didn't know from the most recent series.

Quote - BTW I've loved the new Poser tutorial videos you've put out recently, please supply more, I learned a lot about lighting I didn't know from the most recent series.

Thanks! We are working with Charles to do a full series of training videos over the course of the year to fill this much needed gap.

Yes! The ability to zoom in with the mouse wheel was one of those improvements i asked for in the next version of Poser! Who says SM doesn't listen to what we want?!!!

Wow, that's great, it's a feature I've always wanted to have in Poser.

So ... exactly how am I supposed to get the SR2?

I get to the updates page, click on the update, get asked for my serial number, enter my number, press continue and I get an error message saying: 

We’re sorry, we were unable to verify your serial number. Please try again, or refer to our Serial Number FAQ in the Support Area. results:0 Serial Number is marked - check status. Not exactly helpful: "check status". What's that suppose to mean?

the camera fix makes me a happy bunny,

Ok. Downloading now. For some reason my number was accepted after I waited for about 15 minutes or so. 

A nice big bunch of fixes - thanks to SM for that!

Any hints on the new figures????

All the best.

LROG

Very good fixes, thank you. But still no fix for my problem -- all the library fonts & parameter dials are too tiny to read. I get eyestrain from squinting at it and the things I've tried so far with adjusting both my Poser & Win 7 preferences have all failed. Even updating my graphics card drivers didn't help. I must be doing something wrong but for the life of me I can't figure out what. 

OK I have done something wrong in that, after loading SR2, everything is back a default.

When installing I chose the middle option of backing up my preferences, does anyone know where these are backed up to? Failling that which is the quckest way to get back to somewhere close to where is was as in getting my interfact windows docked correctly.

Quote - Very good fixes, thank you. But still no fix for my problem -- all the library fonts & parameter dials are too tiny to read. I get eyestrain from squinting at it and the things I've tried so far with adjusting both my Poser & Win 7 preferences have all failed. Even updating my graphics card drivers didn't help. I must be doing something wrong but for the life of me I can't figure out what. 

I'd like to know the answer to this for the opposite reason; my library fonts are a bit to big on my new monitor...

Quote - When installing I chose the middle option of backing up my preferences, does anyone know where these are backed up to? Failling that which is the quckest way to get back to somewhere close to where is was as in getting my interfact windows docked correctly.

The installer moves away your custom preferences if you select that option. They get renamed with a time stamp (time of installation). To get your prefs back, please do the following:

• Shut down Poser
• Go to  c:UsersAppDataRoamingPoser Pro  [1]
• Move away ‘9’ and rename the latest time stamped folder (e.g. ‘9_2012_04_11 6_06_06 AM’) to ‘9’
• Restart. Everything should look like before updating.

[1] For geeks: %AppData%Poser Pro, or %AppData%Poser if you're running Poser 9

Thanks uli_k, just what I needed and saved me so much work. - Now it all looks just as I like it.

Quote - Yes! The ability to zoom in with the mouse wheel was one of those improvements i asked for in the next version of Poser! Who says SM doesn't listen to what we want?!!!

Yay! Me too. At last no more wheeling furiously and wondering why nothing's happening...... ;)

Me personally....... a figure I was working on was awesome... then I installed the patch. Today the materials are acting up and cannot get them back to the way they were... everything looks fine in poser 6, 7, 8, 10...12pre patch but when it comes to 12-sr2 I'm getting some kind of weird negative looking effect on the skin I'm using. I've been trying to fix it for hours now. I don't want to hijack the thread, just want to let peeps know I'm having a new issue that I didn't have yesterday.

Quote - Me personally....... a figure I was working on was awesome... then I installed the patch. Today the materials are acting up and cannot get them back to the way they were... everything looks fine in poser 6, 7, 8, 10...12pre patch but when it comes to 12-sr2 I'm getting some kind of weird negative looking effect on the skin I'm using. I've been trying to fix it for hours now. I don't want to hijack the thread, just want to let peeps know I'm having a new issue that I didn't have yesterday.

No offense, but that sounds like an issue that deserves it's own thread with pictures of what the heck you're talking about.

Have you tried the SreeD preview?  I had something like that  happening pre-patch when lights wint AO were in the scene, but it looked okay under SreeD.

is there an official place for Feature Requests?

i would sooo luv to be able to keyframe guide hairs and/or save poses for dynamic hair.
It would be  feature for animations, instead of always having to calculate.

Thanks!

I started a thread over at RuntimeDNA for features I'd like to see in the next Version of Poser. ThinkCooper has read it in the past. Hopefully, he's still scouting it out.

How do you want create realistics renders like this ?

The positive thing, poser is not expensive, we cant have butter and money butter ...

May be in SR 8 ... or 9 ...

I honestly don't know if this has anything to do with the update, but just thought I'd mention it... I made a bodysuit for Anastasia then tried to conform it. Everytime I tried to copy the joint zones from Alyson, poser would crash. This was after I had loaded the update, and I'd never had the issue before.

Quote - I honestly don't know if this has anything to do with the update, but just thought I'd mention it... I made a bodysuit for Anastasia then tried to conform it. Everytime I tried to copy the joint zones from Alyson, poser would crash. This was after I had loaded the update, and I'd never had the issue before.

Ok, so it isn't just me.

I am having the exact same problem with Wardrobe Wizard.

I am submitting a bug report.  I would recommend that you also do it.

I got a response from SM tech support.

There were some minor changes to Alyson 2 to improve rigging.  They are looking into it.

anthan,  post the procedural used for your wall mirror SVP.

Quote - The only bug i would like to see disappear is always present ... Reflect dont reflect blur reflexion ... :cursing:

How do you want create realistics renders like this ?

The positive thing, poser is not expensive, we cant have butter and money butter ...

May be in SR 8 ... or 9 ...

 

Blur reflect, motion blur and motion shadow blur.

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Quote - anthan,  post the procedural used for your wall mirror SVP.

Nothing special

reflect node connected to alt-diffuse, all the others parameters to 0

Quote - is there an official place for Feature Requests?

Hi Lara,

You can file a support ticket with "Feature Suggestion".

BTW, I'm going to be in NYC this weekend, camping.  It's not a protest,  :lol:  there is a Scout camp on Staten Island.  We and the Boys will take the Ferry to Manhattan to sight-see...

To SteveJax and Tomsde: I have created my own thread and solved my issue.... here: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2847642&page=1#message_3917078

To everyone else curious, without trying to hijack thread....

the New poser 2012 Sr2 update does not handle and Jpg images saved in photoshop under the "Scanline" setting. This was not an issue before the update. So, if you encounter your materials turingin black in the render, but it looks fine in the preview, you must open your texture in photoshop and save under Baseline ("standard").

That is all. Only messed up 2 days of work for me... back to work now eveyone.

Quote - > Quote - When installing I chose the middle option of backing up my preferences, does anyone know where these are backed up to? Failling that which is the quckest way to get back to somewhere close to where is was as in getting my interfact windows docked correctly.

The installer moves away your custom preferences if you select that option. They get renamed with a time stamp (time of installation). To get your prefs back, please do the following:

• Shut down Poser
• Go to  c:UsersAppDataRoamingPoser Pro  [1]
• Move away ‘9’ and rename the latest time stamped folder (e.g. ‘9_2012_04_11 6_06_06 AM’) to ‘9’
• Restart. Everything should look like before updating.

[1] For geeks: %AppData%Poser Pro, or %AppData%Poser if you're running Poser 9

Thank You so much for this.

Quote - > Quote - I honestly don't know if this has anything to do with the update, but just thought I'd mention it... I made a bodysuit for Anastasia then tried to conform it. Everytime I tried to copy the joint zones from Alyson, poser would crash. This was after I had loaded the update, and I'd never had the issue before.

 

Ok, so it isn't just me.

I am having the exact same problem with Wardrobe Wizard.

I am submitting a bug report.  I would recommend that you also do it.

Submitted.

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - I honestly don't know if this has anything to do with the update, but just thought I'd mention it... I made a bodysuit for Anastasia then tried to conform it. Everytime I tried to copy the joint zones from Alyson, poser would crash. This was after I had loaded the update, and I'd never had the issue before.

 

Ok, so it isn't just me.

I am having the exact same problem with Wardrobe Wizard.

I am submitting a bug report.  I would recommend that you also do it.

 

Submitted.

We're having a post release QA meeting this morning and will be talking about this.

I loaded up SR2 about an hour ago, and have had 3 crashes since this morning.  Is there a log or details I could gather to submit to SM? 

The last time it happened when double clicking an item in Shaderworks Advanced figure manager, but it is not repeatable.

Quote - I loaded up SR2 about an hour ago, and have had 3 crashes since this morning.  Is there a log or details I could gather to submit to SM? 

The last time it happened when double clicking an item in Shaderworks Advanced figure manager, but it is not repeatable.

Our support team are the best place to start. But I'll update engineering and get back to you later this morning. Thanks for letting me know BTW.

I do love the mouse wheel zoom though, Coop! I hope you're planning to move other camera controls to the mouse as well like panning and tilting.

Quote - Our support team are the best place to start. But I'll update engineering and get back to you later this morning. Thanks for letting me know BTW.

OK, I hate to bother them with a "it crashed" report without any details.  I am in software myself, and that is like a support teams worst nightmare of a call.  LOL!  If I find a repeatable cause, I will let them know.

Quote - I do love the mouse wheel zoom though, Coop! I hope you're planning to move other camera controls to the mouse as well like panning and tilting.

Amen to that - using the mouse to manipulate the camera is SO much more comfortable to me now, from using modellers, than using the virtual trackball!

I ought to pay more attention to submitting bugs and feature requests. I'm told that joint centers don't conform, and while I don't know whether that's a bug or a lack of a useful feature, I'd love it to just "work" :)

Quote - I do love the mouse wheel zoom though, Coop! I hope you're planning to move other camera controls to the mouse as well like panning and tilting.

I don't use one myself, but have you tried a SpaceMouse? It completely controls camera pitch, yaw, zooms and rotations, and we support it in Poser.

Quote - > Quote - I do love the mouse wheel zoom though, Coop! I hope you're planning to move other camera controls to the mouse as well like panning and tilting.

 

I don't use one myself, but have you tried a SpaceMouse? It completely controls camera pitch, yaw, zooms and rotations, and we support it in Poser.

 

I have one of those - made myself sick trying to find the ground in Poser.  In a small space like the Poser work screen, it's very easy to move out of your viewing area with one of these tools.

It's a great idea, but implementation is very difficult except in expansive 3D environments.