The library issue is solved!!

The folders where Poser has caches weren't indexed. Open the relevant AppData folder and run a search, if you have a message coming up that the folder isn't indexed, follow the instructions and add it to the index.

It's great how the issues that are staring you in the face and are the simplest to fix are the last ones you think of!

Hallelujah!!

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Yep, it's all in the indexing, basically, go to every AppData folder (you have to have 'access hidden files and folders' checked) you can find and run a search (top right box) if it asks if you want to index it, do it. It sped everything up, not just Poser. I used to wonder why Windows Live Mail was always slow at checking emails, it was the caches, they weren't indexed.

Now every folder I know of that has caches is indexed, it's like having a new computer again!

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No sure if I reported this one but here goes any way.

In any program I have used, Maya, Max, Cinema 4D, the objects center point is ALWAYS at the center of the objects bounding box, unless the program has options to move the pivot point.

Now all of a sudden Poser has decided to put the point at the center but also at the very top of the bounding box. Much to my surprise a wheel for one of my cars has the pivot point at the top of the wheel.

Why?

But here is the really strange part.

Some objects the pivot point is at the center but at the very bottom of the part.

Why?

Has anyone else noticed this issue?

Keep in ming this is on a figure.

Just now noticed that parts that ar below the overall center of the car the point is at the top, parts that are above the center of the car are at the bottom of the part.

Go figure.

Tom

Is there any one here who uses keyboard shortcuts?

Once again in most programs I have found you can modify the keyboard shortcuts.

When I use ctrl L I see my scene spining in a circle instead of what I would expect the left view.

It is so burned into me to use it that every time I have to use the ctrl : to get the left view.

Not whinning, just saying it would be nice to be able to change the keyboard shortcuts to suit ones work flow.

Tom

Once again sorry if I have reported this issue.

As long as I can remember when you select the Window drop down and choose Joint Editor the ZYX offset dials do not show up until I choose another view or zoom in or out a little. I set a lot of pivot points and it would be nice if this issue were fixed.

They should also be visable if in the properties tab I have ticked the Display origin check box.

Tom

Quote - Not whinning, just saying it would be nice to be able to change the keyboard shortcuts to suit ones work flow.

Tom

I haven't done it , Tom, but here's how...

http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/tricks.html

The file looks like something I will not fool around with.

Thanks any way.

Tom

I agree, that's like doing open heart surgery with a pair of household tweezers. You could probably do it, but one wouldn't recommend it!

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Still seeing an issue in the heirarchy dialog box.

If I select a figure in the dialog,  the figure is not selected in the viewport.

I have to go to the drop down menu in the preview window and choose the figure in that menu.

Is this intentional behavour?

Seems like the program should be unified in all of the menus.

Also. Thanks for not making this thread into, a hate filled, flame war.

The whole intention of the is thread, is for helping to improve the program. :-)

So thank all of you who are posting.

Tom

I can't say I've ever used that dialog box myself. I select figure parts using the dropdowns just near the preview window.

Is anyone using PP2012 in Windows 8 right now!? I'm seriously mulling over taking advantage of the seemingly amazing 'Upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Pro for £14.99' offer and have yet to find any reasons why I shouldn't go for it.

If PP2012 runs well in it then I really could bite the bullet and go for it. Anyone!?

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Bite and save  install for later.

While you can get a good price.

Unless you have no plans to upgrade.

Smith micro will have to adapt to the new OS.

Tom

I guess,

I have already found one guy saying that PP2012 crashes when he imports a Genesis figure and tries to pose it when using Windows 8.

There's a reply in the RDNA forums about something as well, but I can't locate the thread!

The offer runs till the end of February so there's time for things to be sorted out.

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Hello, I just can say that posting a ticket at SM is a waste of time. I have outlined two potential problems with Poser (preview window display incorrect for NVIDIA, and "New" not deleting all data from old scenes), and after walking through at least 5 different graphics driver installs (and 2 different video cards, all showing the same bug), support insisted that it is a permission problem (none of my runtimes lives on C:).

After pointing out that the bug occurs with even Poser included content, I was informed that the scene used (The Pad) is not suitable for testing.

I'm fed up, I will just continue to live with the bug. 

Best regards,

   Michael

P.S.:  I suspect a connection to the famous "NO_MAP" bug, in my case it was related to an object "none".

I haven't come across what you describe, so I can't really comment. Smith Micro have been quite (I can't quite say very) helpful when it comes to the issues I've had.

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I would love to see this added to the save materials dialog in the case of saving set after set of the same selection of material names in an .mc6 file.

Can be done with this dialog mock up or.....

Would be great on things like my cars and trucks where I am saving sometimes over a hundred .mc6 files. Very tedious work when I have to select each material every time I save another version of a cars finish.

Also would elimiate human error.

Also would still like to see the expandable dialog boxes come back, as then I can see the whole list of materials at a glance.

Would be nice as well to have the dialog box size save from session to session.

Tom

Interesting,

Not really done much with materials save for loading everyone else's.

I got Windows 8 in the end, and, after much tinkering, I really like it. PP2012 runs and has only crashed once, but I think that was due to corrupt xmls so I've deleted them and started afresh.

When I spoke to SM about the issue the other guy had, they said that PP2012 was fully compatible with Win 8 and it was a DSON problem. Daz said that not many of them had Win 8 so they hadn't tested DSON in it.

Thank god nothing happened to me or they'd still be debating it in February!

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An FYI

My resources were not appearing in Poser Pro 2012 -- all of a sudden. It said to dowload the latest version with a link that didn't work very well..  on the troubles went.

If anybody is having trouble updating Flash player there are some real problems updating in both IE and Firebox.  I searched and searched, Googling and Bing'ing...

This install worked FINALLY, after all kind of "time out" failures.

This install does not depend on Active X.

http://ezref.info/Download+Timeout+at+12%25+when+downloading+Adobe+Flash+Player.html

Flash is one thing I don't have problems with in Windows 8, it's embedded into IE and once it's in, that's it, it's in. It appear that it's 64 bit too which it never was in Windows 7. People with Windows 7 would bang on about having 64 bit Flash, they didn't! There was a dialog box on the Adobe site which told them which version of Windows they had, not Flash! In Control Panel when you looked at Hardware and Sound, right at the bottom was a listing for Abobe Flash Player and plain for all to see, in brackets it said 32 Bit! Had there been 64 bit Flash installed, that would have said 64 bit, end of!

There is also 64 bit Flash in Waterfox, but, it's a specially coded plug-in version for that browser alone and is downloaded and installed from the Waterfox site and not Adobe's.

So far, touch wood, aside from stupid things I've done myself, I haven't had any issues with Windows 8 and I'd highly recommend upgrading. You will have a fun time locating drivers but, once you do, it's a great piece of kit.

I'd recommend a clean install of PP2012 with the Runtime in your Documents library.

Have a creative 2013

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Having to resort to close Poser and start it again to do a render and hope like crazy it finishes. This has happened on many occasions but I just never go around to reporting it until now.

Steve I know you are reading this. Please have the guys look into this one soon as it is a time waster fopr me. I hate to waste time. Grrrrrrr.

By the way that is my friendly Grrrrrr. :-)

Just don't call me while I am taking a nap!!!

Then you will get my angry Grrrrrr. :-)

Tom

By the way Rendo, Thank you for making this thread sticky. I think it has been a nice friendly thread. :-)

Tom

Just was remeinded of another issue I have been running accross. Not all the time but sometimes when I save a file and then close Poser 2012 it crashes. Why, oh, why, does this happen?

:-)

Tom

You really have to file a bug report or two with Smith Micro themselves. There are too many dependent factors that it would take mere users months to work it out. They will at least have tested everything and will have more of a handle on what is likely to be going on. You can't just soldier on with an unsolved issue.

I haven't personally experienced anything like what you describe

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Well, since I've installed Windows 8 pro 64 bit, the library functions poorly if at all. I know many hate it but I've used it all the time in the past with Vista and Win 7 with no problems. Both Windows 8 and PoserPro 2012 are a clean install too, so I don't understand the problem but it's definately there. I've had to use Library Manager 2.5 to be able to do anything. Luckily the library did work once, so I was able to add all my runtimes and if not for that  moment, I wouldn't be able to use Poser at all. It was a poor decision to code poser so the library is necessary to add runtimes, should've been under preferences in the main program. And yes Adobe air is the latest build as well as PoserPro 2012 with patch 3.1.

If you describe the problem, perhaps we can help. If you go back a page or two there are library issues discussed and some solutions. PP2012 works fine for me now.

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In the meantime, runtimes can be added by adding the path of the external runtime to LibraryPrefs.xml...

Thanks, I'll check on the above info and thanks to WandW too. I will definately keep that in mind. I tried running Poser and the Library in Win 7 compatiblity mode but the situation hasn't changed.

Just was remeinded of another issue in Poser pro 2012. When I go to set the pivots points on my city block sets for the block itself I want the pivot to be at the exact world 0 0 0.

When I highlight either the OriginZ OriginY or OriginX sometimes the bounding box has the field showing somewhere around zero but more like 0.000008

So next I highlight the field and type in 0

Then check it again and the 0.000008 is there again.

So next I type in 50.0 and then highlight once more and type in 0

Then I check it and the field now after all this finally says 0.000

Why?

Have been seeing this issue for several versions of Poser.

I know it does not sound like a big deal but take a city block and rotate it around a 0.000008 center point and the far cornor can be off by a  1/2 inch or so.

So the line up perfectly thing is not any longer a valid statement.

Please have someone check it out Steve, okay?

Oh and for those who insist that I file a bug report I have already discussed my mental issues with Steve and he understands that will continue to post my issues here, so please stop embarassing me and telling me I have to report my issues to Smith Micro, I do not, okay?

My A.D.D. makes it next to impossible to get through all the fields without forgetting the issue I want to explain. I have to do it right now like I am doing right now, or it will be gone forever or at least until the next time it happens.

Also I am a very busy person and do not have time to write it all down and then go through all the hoops in the ____ forums.

Now I hope I got my point across about the bug I was talking about as I got sidetracked by explaining this mental condition of mine. :-) Sorry

Tom

Not a big deal but I notice sometimes you will load something that has missing textures and it ask if you want to keep looking for them, you say no. But the program keeps popping up windows in and endless loop till you end task Poser.  Actually I have seen many past versions of Poser also do this. It must be a big pain to Poser.

The only other thing I notice is that search engine seems a lil glitchy to me. It seems to have a mind of its on sometimes and things I have documented in a text file that yielded results before will not find anything and I must try other searches.

That has happened in the past, though not often.

What I do is make a note of what it's trying to to find and make sure it's installed, if it isn't I install it. Sometimes though, the artist has decided not to use that texture and has renamed it without changing the mat pose. In that case just use that texture and point the mat pose to it when it asks where the other one is.

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I'd like Poser to remember more that one load/save location.  When loading a texture it would be nice if the requestor automatically redirected to where the current texture in use is located, as often times the new texture will be in the same folder (figure skin, clothing, etc.).  I'd prefer it to keep separate my recent folders for scenes, imported objects, and textures (from the mat room).

Also, saving a scene from the menu should update the thumb in the library.

I could not agree more on that!

Save a render then go to load a texture Poser directs to where I saved the render. That is just plain wrong.

Tom

Quote - I could not agree more on that!

Save a render then go to load a texture Poser directs to where I saved the render. That is just plain wrong.

Tom

I knew I'd forgotten one of the more annoying instances of that behaviour!

Let's see...  It's stuff that's not in the library.  I think Poser should remember last locations for:

*Scenes

*Imported/Exported Objects

*Exported Images

*Exported Videos

*Imported Textures

I don't work with motion files, so I don't know if they have that problem as well.  I'm assuming that Poser only remembers one directory at a time.

It would be nice to actually specify the default paths for each of these item types.

Here's one...  I was adjusting a hair prop and it having trouble with the hairline.  I didn't want to render a whole image, so I used the area render.  I selected the area render too while looking at my render, and found I could re-render a part of an image.  Cool.

But there was a blue border around the area re-rendered.  Not so cool.

I simply can't get my runtime library to load unless I'm online and that works when poser wants it and 90% of the time it simply won't. Is there a way to have poser pro 2012 load a library offline at all like the older posers did? Because I'm very limited with my net connection and that's a real problem for me. Other than that I had no problems with it so far, thought I never got the chance to really test it much without a library loading. Good thing I still use poser7 because I'm not really happy with this poser versions asking me to always be online or else it won't work! It strange too, because when I first installed it, it wasn't bothering me to get online at all other then the registry part, only after a few days did that start to become a problem!

Well, you can refresh a newly added folder which will get rid of duplicate entries.

Quote - I simply can't get my runtime library to load unless I'm online and that works when poser wants it and 90% of the time it simply won't. Is there a way to have poser pro 2012 load a library offline at all like the older posers did?

Yes, there is. Just click OK on the error message. If that does not work it's probably your firewall settings that prevent it. Search in this forum for 'library' and for user 'bagginsbill' - there should be some explaination.

My issue with PP 2014 is the preview window gets stuck in one display mode while I switch among the various Toon and Comic Book modes.

Quote - > Quote - I simply can't get my runtime library to load unless I'm online and that works when poser wants it and 90% of the time it simply won't. Is there a way to have poser pro 2012 load a library offline at all like the older posers did?

Yes, there is. Just click OK on the error message. If that does not work it's probably your firewall settings that prevent it. Search in this forum for 'library' and for user 'bagginsbill' - there should be some explaination.

Hi and thanks for a response! Sadly, I did set all my firewalls to let anything pass from poserpro 2012, but still nothing. I searched what you suggested here in the forums, but that too didn't work, nothing came up with those searches. But I appreciate the help. :)

Maybe I should get one of the shaderworks library plug-ins, in hopes it doesn't load from the poser library first!

Since we are now working with Poser 10/2014 is there any point in this thread being left up?

Maybe change the name to 2014?

Up to you. :-)

Tom

You can't change the titles of threads. Wish we could! I'm thinking about "unstickying" it. That leaves the thread available in searches, but directs questions on the new software to the correctly titled thread.

Good idea.