Quote - How precise is the goz when morphing extreme poses?

I'm not the world's greatest ZBrush expert and so far have only used it for fairly simple morphs, and it seemed to work pretty well for (say) an arm up morph.  Maybe some other ZBrush experts can comment on this one.

has anyone rendered anything yet with the new SR3 installed, my image seems to be taking a long time to render just one figure, env sphere, background plane and two light emitters. 

Mine stops and sits for a while at transparency maps (still) but overall seems to take about the same amount of time.

Laurie

Okay, maybe that is what is going on, it is on the lashes, ans seems to be taking forever! lol 

Anyone else having a library display issue? My library previously opened up in its own window and had a minimize button. After the update it's gone back to the old Poser way of only having an x to close it, ie no option to minimize the library now.

Quote - Anyone else having a library display issue? My library previously opened up in its own window and had a minimize button. After the update it's gone back to the old Poser way of only having an x to close it, ie no option to minimize the library now.

Do you see the small gray docking square in the upper right corner, just under the X to close? Click that square, and choose "Floating." Does that fix it?

Customer service say the update should have created an order over at Content Paradise...no such order yet.

Let me compare how I ordered the update with what other people have done:

1. Received email from Smith Micro informing me of the SR3 update.
2. Clicked on the link in the email and was taken to this page: http://poser.smithmicro.com/updates.html
3. Clicked on the "Win SR3 Update" button and was asked to provide my serial number, which I did
4. Was taken to "fastspring.com" to complete my order
5. Entered personal information and completed my order
6. Was taken to a conformation page that told me I would be emailed a receipt and download information within 30 minutes.

There was nothing said about using Content Paradise.

Is this similar to how other's ordered the update, or did I do somthing different?

I'm finding I can no longer drag and drop into Morphing Clothes from the library. Also, EZSkin now says Michael4 and Victoria4 are not supported. Is it just me?

Quote - Do you see the small gray docking square in the upper right corner, just under the X to close? Click that square, and choose "Floating." Does that fix it?

No but I figured it out. In preferences, set libray to open externally instead of embedded.

Thanks for your quick reply.

So far it looks good. Deleting items from a scene no longer results in an age long wait for the scene to refresh. Same after rendering, no long wait for the preview after you click the preview tab. I often had to wait a couple of minutes for the preview to reappear.

Quote - I'm finding I can no longer drag and drop into Morphing Clothes from the library. Also, EZSkin now says Michael4 and Victoria4 are not supported. Is it just me?

Having no problem with either - I have not, however, updated to EZSkin v2 yet.  I'm using EZSkin 1.7

Quote - > Quote - Do you see the small gray docking square in the upper right corner, just under the X to close? Click that square, and choose "Floating." Does that fix it?

 

No but I figured it out. In preferences, set libray to open externally instead of embedded.

 

Thanks for your quick reply.

So far it looks good. Deleting items from a scene no longer results in an age long wait for the scene to refresh. Same after rendering, no long wait for the preview after you click the preview tab. I often had to wait a couple of minutes for the preview to reappear.

Thanks!!!! That fixed the Morphing Clothes problem.

So happy you all like the improvements.
There are barrels of them.
:-)
And do not forget to thank Dee for the manual.....completely updated.....right up to the last minute. :-)

So, I guess I managed to confuse the customer support guy. See, I originally purchased Poser Pro 2012 through Content Paradise, so he thought I got the update through them as well.

All he had to do was forward the info email from fastspring.com and that had the link to the download (at the amazon fulfillment site...just like everyone else)

More complicated than it should be...

Quote - So happy you all like the improvements.
There are barrels of them.
:-)
And do not forget to thank Dee for the manual.....completely updated.....right up to the last minute. :-)

ROFL Got that right.

No rest for the wicked. 8-D

And I love EVERY minute of it!!!!!!!

Quote - Customer service say the update should have created an order over at Content Paradise...no such order yet.

 

Let me compare how I ordered the update with what other people have done:

1. Received email from Smith Micro informing me of the SR3 update.
2. Clicked on the link in the email and was taken to this page: http://poser.smithmicro.com/updates.html
3. Clicked on the "Win SR3 Update" button and was asked to provide my serial number, which I did
4. Was taken to "fastspring.com" to complete my order
5. Entered personal information and completed my order
6. Was taken to a conformation page that told me I would be emailed a receipt and download information within 30 minutes.

There was nothing said about using Content Paradise.

 

Is this similar to how other's ordered the update, or did I do somthing different?

That's exactly how it worked for me.

Hmm...I got my email with the link IMMEDIATELY. It arrived sooner than the confirmation email for crying out loud...lol.

Laurie

Quote - > Quote - Customer service say the update should have created an order over at Content Paradise...no such order yet.

 

Let me compare how I ordered the update with what other people have done:

1. Received email from Smith Micro informing me of the SR3 update.
2. Clicked on the link in the email and was taken to this page: http://poser.smithmicro.com/updates.html
3. Clicked on the "Win SR3 Update" button and was asked to provide my serial number, which I did
4. Was taken to "fastspring.com" to complete my order
5. Entered personal information and completed my order
6. Was taken to a conformation page that told me I would be emailed a receipt and download information within 30 minutes.

There was nothing said about using Content Paradise.

 

Is this similar to how other's ordered the update, or did I do somthing different?

 

That's exactly how it worked for me.

Same here, and email with link for the download was almost instanteous.

How fast it works it probably a function of timing. I downloaded about 8AM eastern, ahead of the rush for most of the country. No problems. If you try when 10,000 others are also trying, expect delays.

A very BIG THANK YOU to all that worked on the SR3 update and the documentation.

I think it is right to give those praise that help us to enjoy our Poser experience.

All the best.

LROG

Ok anyone else have this issue? Downloaded SR3 no problems, installed no problems, runs no problems EXCEPT for this annoying pop-up:

Everything seems ok, renders ok...just this pop-up pops up about every 3-4 minutes. Anyone have any quick ideas before I go to SM?

Thanks!

Yeah, many thanks to all involved for an outstanding result with SR3... lots of great stuff in this update :biggrin:

Quote - Ok anyone else have this issue? Downloaded SR3 no problems, installed no problems, runs no problems EXCEPT for this annoying pop-up:

Everything seems ok, renders ok...just this pop-up pops up about every 3-4 minutes. Anyone have any quick ideas before I go to SM?

 

Thanks!

I didn't get that. And I was working in it for awhile. You didn't do anything and it just popped up?

I just clicked on the link here in the thread. Gave my serial number and then was asked for user name and password. In fact my user name was filled in for me and then got the update.

The process was very fast and easy. Just checked and SR3 is at content paradise also. 

Perhaps it is a different in the email? Then I am glad I saw it here before I read mail.  Thanks cspear!

Yep. Just normal posering and I get this pop-up.

I'm wondering if it's conflicting with, or has something to do with, Queue Manager 2012? Hmmm...

Send SM a ticket :)

Laurie

BTW, while I'm trying to trace this problem down, how does one go about the single-axis scaling? Is there a particular something I should be looking for?

I think it just means you can now scale limbs and things and not have it look bad ;). Can make dwarves and little people and use the Kids 4 and Freak without weird things going on ;).

Laurie

Quote - I think it just means you can now scale limbs and things and not have it look bad ;). Can make dwarves and little people and use the Kids 4 and Freak without weird things going on ;).

Laurie

When using characters that have body parts that are scaled up or down like this, you'll need to select the BODY actor of the clothing and switch to the Properties tab. Make sure that "Include Scales when Conforming" is checked for each piece of clothing that he/she wears. That way, the clothing will follow the scaling of the body parts on the character.

Quote - I think it just means you can now scale limbs and things and not have it look bad ;). Can make dwarves and little people and use the Kids 4 and Freak without weird things going on ;).

Laurie

Ah, understand. Ok thanks!

SM ticket opened.

Quote - Yeah, many thanks to all involved for an outstanding result with SR3... lots of great stuff in this update :biggrin:

It's amazing to see how it all comes together after weeks and weeks of pouring over code. They are wizards at what they do, and they will appreciate the thanks.

Quote - Yep. Just normal posering and I get this pop-up.

 

I'm wondering if it's conflicting with, or has something to do with, Queue Manager 2012? Hmmm...

Yep it has to do with QueueManager2012. Terminated the app and the problem went away...in case anyone else runs into this. PP2012 SR3 works great!!

We were not expecting that our new fulfillment partner Fastspring would require our customers to enter email and contact data for a free download, but the cart they have provided to us seems to be doing just that. We don’t feel that entering data other than a serial validation should be a requirement of a free service release, so we have redirected our links back to our own cart for the service release. We’ve heard your concerns, and this change hopefully will address those.

Oops..I'm too trusting ;). And very very unobservant...lol.

Laurie

My thanks to all involved. Great update. Doubt I'll ever buy Zbrush, but you never know.

thanx also for the update, dont think i will ever afford zbrush either,lol.also thanks bagginsbill for the help, dont get much time on the computer to access poser manual or poser.had my alotted hour for this week to try something out,next time i shall do some reading,lol

No Zbrush here either and probably never, but the old fashioned way wasn't hard at least ;). Thanks guys for the update.

Laurie

Quote - > Quote - Yep. Just normal posering and I get this pop-up.

 

I'm wondering if it's conflicting with, or has something to do with, Queue Manager 2012? Hmmm...

 

Yep it has to do with QueueManager2012. Terminated the app and the problem went away...in case anyone else runs into this. PP2012 SR3 works great!!

So does this mean there's a problem using Queue Manager with this update then?

Hmmm ... according to the updater page, the Queue Manager should be installed with SR3.

There is a separate Queue Manager installer to use on remote render nodes ... for what that's worth.

Quote - Hmmm ... according to the updater page, the Queue Manager should be installed with SR3.

There is a separate Queue Manager installer to use on remote render nodes ... for what that's worth.

SR3 is downloading (very slowly....) at the moment, but I didn't see any mention of Queue manager anywhere. Wondering if the problem with the popup error message was resolved?

Well according to the update page, if you install Poser SR3, the Queue Manager SR3 updater will be installed WITH that.

There is a separate Queue Manager SR3 updater for use on render nodes (in other words, if you don't have Poser installed on other computers on your network, but you use the Queue Manager to spread the load to other computers).  THOSE are the computers that you install the separate Queue Manager SR3 updater onto.

I was wondering about this problem and if it was resolved? I don't want an error message popping up every few minutes!

Quote - > Quote - Yep. Just normal posering and I get this pop-up.

 

I'm wondering if it's conflicting with, or has something to do with, Queue Manager 2012? Hmmm...

 

Yep it has to do with QueueManager2012. Terminated the app and the problem went away...in case anyone else runs into this. PP2012 SR3 works great!!

Didn't see any mention of Queue Manager on the CP update page so thanks for the extra info.

Quote - We were not expecting that our new fulfillment partner Fastspring would require our customers to enter email and contact data for a free download, but the cart they have provided to us seems to be doing just that. We don’t feel that entering data other than a serial validation should be a requirement of a free service release, so we have redirected our links back to our own cart for the service release. We’ve heard your concerns, and this change hopefully will address those.

Nice of them to tell us now bit too late for some of us. I mean why didn't they just send it to content paradise in the first place instead of what we got given. (Note to self be wary of hopping on board too soon.)

Quote - > Quote - We were not expecting that our new fulfillment partner Fastspring would require our customers to enter email and contact data for a free download, but the cart they have provided to us seems to be doing just that. We don’t feel that entering data other than a serial validation should be a requirement of a free service release, so we have redirected our links back to our own cart for the service release. We’ve heard your concerns, and this change hopefully will address those.

Nice of them to tell us now bit too late for some of us. I mean why didn't they just send it to content paradise in the first place instead of what we got given. (Note to self be wary of hopping on board too soon.)

The info they've collected is protected in our merchant account with Fastspring. We are partnered with them for distribution of trial versions and ESD versions, we merely did the switch for SR3 to simplify the process to download.

I was afraid that providing too much false information would make me have to deal with claims that I was pirating poser.

Wow! Some pretty good things seemed to have happened for conforming clothing functionality in SR3, eh?

Quote - I was afraid that providing too much false information would make me have to deal with claims that I was pirating poser.

As far as I know, purchasing software, and then later moving to a new address and changing one's phone number or email address does not constitute piracy or invalidate the license. :)

ETA: Even changing one's name shouldn't, though I suppose moving to a different country might.

I had a dynamic swimsuit I had finished that would open with the mesh scrambled and I believe the mesh is fine. With SR3 it opens perfectly in tact!

Quote - A very BIG THANK YOU to all that worked on the SR3 update and the documentation.

I think it is right to give those praise that help us to enjoy our Poser experience.

All the best.

LROG

AMEN to that!

You guys and gals are AWESOME! :thumbupboth:

Quote - We were not expecting that our new fulfillment partner Fastspring would require our customers to enter email and contact data for a free download, but the cart they have provided to us seems to be doing just that. We don’t feel that entering data other than a serial validation should be a requirement of a free service release, so we have redirected our links back to our own cart for the service release. We’ve heard your concerns, and this change hopefully will address those.

Thank you for the quick reaction!

It shows that the people at SM really listen to their customers, IMO.

It's a rare thing and very much appreciated

PS: Sorry for the double-post, but I didn't know how to quote two different posts in one reply

Quote - No Zbrush here either and probably never, but the old fashioned way wasn't hard at least ;). Thanks guys for the update.

Laurie

With the Poser Morph tool, do we even need Zbrush for this?