I know this thread is meant for Newies .. but as an oldie I think the tips and tricks are great for me as well .. Thank you!! :D

the main reason i have even been dealing with V6 is because of her high poly count that and sub surface that does (in my opinion) giver her more realism.  i am considering going back to V4 but modifying the OBJ file in maya to increase the poly count in the mesh and using the standard sub surface for V4 with it to see if i cannot get more realism without having to go through the DSON exporter and causing the posing and rendering lag...has anyone attempted this and if so what were the draw backs

anouther question i have is "why are there only a select few clothing items for Vic 6"  i mean she is definiatly not made for nude poses with her crappy genitals,that are totally unmorphable other than size and crease.  She must be designed for less erotic style renders.  in this case what are people doing to get V4 stuff to fit her because there is really nothing out there for V6?

Mauadib - there's no need to increase V4's polycount. By changing her skinning method (in the Figure menu) you can enable subdivision for her.

Besides, there's Smooth Polygons in the Render Options dialog.

Fitting V4 clothing to V6 in Poser - that's what the Fitting Room is for. Wardrobe Wizard might also do the trick. I don't have V6, haven't tried yet.

Plenty of good advice up there.  I may not be a noobie, having started with Poser 3, but I sure ain't an expert either.

I wish someone had long ago hinted that before I've downloaded around 20 - 30 Gigs of Content I should make sure where the textures disappear to (like that guy's socks in another Forum) because often, too often, a dress Zip file may be called Ziggies V4 Dress and the texture itself is called Uncle Charlie's Sexy V4 dress.

I now run an Excel spreadsheet with all names and all LOCATIONS of stuff I download.  This may be overkill but it works.  Like I say, an expert I ain't so there is bound to be a simpler way to find your several-year-old dress tex the next time you'd like to modify it.

Render with Smooth Polygons ON in the Poser render settings.

Use the free scenefixer script to set all figure groups crease angle to 180°.

Hi all, I'm using Poser Pro 2012 on Win 7 64 bit system. My question is why do I get darker legs and feet (on previews and renders) when V4 is in a sitting pose whilst when standing all skin has the same brightness and contrast. I've tried different SSS mats but no change. I do not think lighting or shadows are the reason as in some poses V4 is holding her legs; and her arms, hands etc are as bright as her body but her legs and feet remain dark.  I tend to use lights by Mild Boreal or Sveva with or without AO and backlighting.  When I just use V4 in her purple bikini (ie no additional mat applied) there seems to be minimal difference between legs and the rest of her body. Thanks for any advice.    

I would suggest posting screencaps of your preview window, lighting and advanced material room settings.  There is not too much detailed information to go on ATM, perhaps the screencaps will reveal something you are overlooking.

OK - I am still a 'Newbie' in ability, if not chronologically speaking, so my question is this: I have got the wonderful conforming 'Panties for Beauty' by Arrin. I load them and conform them, then magnetise them to V4 and they look great and fit well. However, if I sit, bend, or crouch V4, her waist/hips get wider, naturally, and we have poke through.

Now I know I could sit for ages messing aroung with the morohing tool and twiddling dials on the panties, but with the fitting room (I am running Poser Pro 2014) is there some way I save the panties as a new figure and somehow inject relevant morphs from V4 during the saving process, thus enabling them to truly 'conform' throughout V4's range of movement?

I tried doing the 'autofit' thing with them yesterday, but it made the panties grow into some sort of ill-fitting, oversized bellywarmer, even with the range turned right down to .0020.

Have you tried posing V4 first then conforming the clothes item to her?  Usually that is the recommended approach for fitting conforming clothing although many users do not follow that procedure.  Also, there is a checkbox on the Properties/Parameter panel for fitting clothing.  ATM, I am not at my own PC to give the proper title for the setting.

Yes, I did the pose first, then conform thing, but not much improvement. I will have a look for the properties thing you mention. Thanks again Superman!

Also magnitize the clothing item for V4.  Someone else in another post had pokethrough problems and that cleared it up. 

will try your suggestions SVDL but i have just about given up hope to tell you the truth with V6  in fact its to the point where i truely believe i have wasted my time with the purchase.   constant clothing issue.   constant archiving while trying to pose. and to top it all off there are multiple renduring crashes.  either directly after the first frame or at frame 50 of a 130 frame render.  i render in still format with jpeg extention and them piece it all back together with After Effects.  it never crashes on standard v4 avatars or below.   i am not running any type of virus software or the like.  i use win utilities pro to clean registary. and my system is as follows;

i7 4960

512 Gb SSD

24GB Ram

nvidea GTX 780

i think it is an issue with the DSON importer and its in-ability to  handle v6 in poser pro 2014 properly but i dont know for sure

 anyone got any ideas? cause it looks like i am going back to the basics with v4

A great many of us are unable to get good results from DSON. You are not alone. It may be time to go back to something that was designed to work in Poser and get on with your project.

Quote - A great many of us are unable to get good results from DSON. You are not alone. It may be time to go back to something that was designed to work in Poser and get on with your project.

agreed..it is a shame that a good company like DAZ can no longer create the characters we love.  they had some very good pieces.  I am by far not the expert otherwise i would do it myself, but hopefully someone has the knowledge to build a character like VIC 6 and M5 that would actually work with poser...it is unfortunate that Smith Micro doesn't have a character that is just as intence or as popular as the Vic and M series.

OK, I just went through all 13 pages and didn't see my question, so I'll go ahead and ask. 

I am using Poser Pro 2012 SR3, on a Win 7 pro 64 bit.  I was going to install something the other day that had render setting preferences, they gave the location to install these preferences, however, I can't find the folder they suggested.

I go to User/AppData/Roaming/Poser Pro...

then I have two folders>

9

&

9_2012_10_10 2_36_37 pm

neither one of these have Render Setting Perference folder. 

Do I create one? And if I do, which folder should I put it in?

any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi

Make sure you have it set to show hidden folders.

Try Agent Ransack, and search for the folder.

I found mine in Users, User Name, App data, Roaming, Poser 2014.

Thant's in Windows 8.

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download

I really like Agent Ransack, it makes the Windows search engine look like zip, and it's free.

I use it every day.

Mike

PS, It was in a folder called "English"

Thanks Mike, I'll look up that search engine.

I've got it set to show all folders, and I found the Roaming/Poser Pro folder, it's after that I get confused.. there are two folders inside the Poser Pro folder, and neither one of them have a Render Preferences folder which is where the instructions say I should place these preferences.

I could make a Render Preferences folder, but I'm not sure which folder I should use inside the Poser Pro folder. 

I hope I'm making sense, lol.

Hi

This is where mine is at, it's not quite the way I described it above.

A picture is woth, etc... 

 By the way I didn't say that Agent Ransack adds itself to the right click dropdown list so you only have to point at a folder, right click and select Agent Ransack, i.e. Users and it will open a search window and search that folder and it's sub folders.

I'm a big fan, I've used it for years, since Windows 7, the Windows search engine has really sucked.

I had it not find things that I was sitting there looking at in Windows Explorer.

Mike

Hi

I guess I'd try creating the folder on my desktop, putting the preference files in it, and then copying the folder to both locations one at a time and see if it works.

I'm not sure why our locations are so different.

I don't think that Windows 8 is that much different the 7 as far as that kind of thing goes.

Mike

Quote - Hi

I guess I'd try creating the folder on my desktop, putting the preference files in it, and then copying the folder to both locations one at a time and see if it works.

I'm not sure why our locations are so different.

I don't think that Windows 8 is that much different the 7 as far as that kind of thing goes.

Mike

  I was following some simulare advise i had found on the net and just deleted the preference files all-together.  I have not yet attempted to create a new Vic 6 /M5 animation yet to see if this fixed the problem but it is my intent.  It is however loading alot faster now so i may give it a shot with an animation of the same frame count. one of the questions i do have is..what is the best still rendering extention to use.  i am currently saving in .jpg format but owning the the CS6 Masters edition from adobe, i can really use anything.  the reason for this question is .....maybe a different extention such as .png or .tiff will cause less crashes with poser.  again, i ask this because I am currently stationed in Afghanistan and my personal time is very limited and setting up sceens and animations takes a long time for me (usually weeks) where most people it takes only a couple of days.  i dont want to waist my time if it doesnt work.  I appreciate any recommendations.

Thanks Mike, I'll give that a try.

Here's where my render presets are hiding. PoserPro 2014

C:UsersTrekkieAppDataRoamingPoser Pro10RenderPresets

Yours may not be there yet if you haven't created any render presets yourself. So I'd chuck a RenderPresets folder in the folder you have called 9 and see if it helps :)

Thanks TrekkieGrrrl! I haven't created any, so I'll try that.

So I would put it in the Poser 9 folder even though I'm using Poser Pro2012?

Sorry for the late reply, but I'm not getting ebots for replies on threads I'm supposed to be getting notfications on :(

Hi Cimaira,

I'm running Poser Pro 2012 SR3 also, on Windows 8. Your "RenderPresets" folder goes inside of your PoserPro/9/ folder as TrekkieGrrrl said.

Thanks Taren421!

I just tripped across some old content on my hard-drive and it's got a P4 version and PP version, on other stuff there's also a P5 or P6. I'm using PP2014.  On the numbered versions, I figure I should probably work my way backwards down the version chain but what's the PP version and where does it fit in the grand scheme of all-things-material?

PoserProPack - Poser 4.5 in effect.

thanks

I am still having trouble loading content I purchased from the renderosity marketplace into poserpro2012.  Take for instance I purchased sexyshapes 4 and some of the injectors just dont seem to work. What makes it even more weird is all the content shows up in the appropriate folders in my runtime library. The file came with some head pre-sets. From the pose tab if i click on any of the head injectors they all seem to work fine.  It also comes with 16 body pre-sets and 32 breast presets. Ive tried all of them and none of them will load. Im confused by this, why would the heads load and not the breast or body pre-sets? 

Next Im trying to load a clothing file called Auditions. Ive installed and can see all the clothing in my runtime library. From the pose tab if i try and load any of the 20 articles of clothing in the file nothing happens. The same files show up in the materials tab and none of them will seem to load any clothing. Why would the files show up in my runtime and not load? 

Also another problem I'm having is loading the v4morphs++ injector. All 330 morphs show up in the runtime foler in the pose tab. If i click the INJ v4++ nothing happens. But if I select a individual morph like waist size it will load. If I click her waist. I just thought if I clicked INJ Morphs v4++ it would inject all the morphs and if I select say waist I would get several options.

Ive also tried installing these three files to their own seperate runtime but that didnt seem to make a difference either.

I have other clothing and morphs that seem to work just fine, but these just dont seem to load for some reason. Any thoughts is much appreciated.

After you installed the V4 Morph++, did you run the init batch file? If you did not, then the morphs are not fully installed. Do a search on your drive for a folder called !Daz. There is a batch file in there that needs to be run.

On the clothing not loading - the fiels in Pose and Materials are settings that are to be applied to the clothing; if you have purchased a base set of clothing there should be files for loading that in the Figure or possibly in the props library, but it's possible what you have is a texture expansion for a separately purchased set of clothing. The InjAll poses should load the morphs, just as the individual morph injections do - if one works the other should, and vice versa. Most dials are on the Body, or the Head for head shaping and expressions, rather than on body parts.

Make certain that you have V4 selected and not a body part such as hip.  Body parts will show a morph but not work at all.  

Auditions is just a texture set for a different product exactly as RHaseltine posted.  That is the reason you don't see any clothing, there is no clothing associated with the files.

Thanks so much RHaseltine and hborre. The batch file fixed everything. Now I can try and get clothing to fit. That was really bugging me Thank you.

Thanks again for the replies I appreciate the help. I'm having problems also with getting clothing to stay on a figure. I made a thread about the issue but realized this is a much more suitable thread for issues like this.

I can get a simple bodysuit to conform to v4 in a pose without major issues. But if I apply a file with breast physics and test it with a walk animation, the bodysuit does not follow the physics of the breasts.

Any thoughts on how I could make the suit follw the figure throught the animation?

It depends how the morphs are made or working. A lot of the breast movement in V4 is done with the magnets attached to the figure, in which case applying the magnetise pose should fix your problem. If, on the other hand, the product has added new morphs that aren't in the clothing then you are going to need to transfer the morphs in some way - the latest versions of Poser do have a morph copying feature but for older versions you are, I think, going to need an addon - the V4 module for Wardrobe Wizard, or a XDresser licence for V4, or a set of magnets to mimic the morphs if there is one for example.

So Ive tried "Magnetize clothing" but that doesnt seem to make a difference. Is there a separate "Magnetize pose" file I should be using?

It seems that once I load the the breast jiggle INJ  the clothing stays stationary and the breasts move as they should. Im just trying a test run animation 120 frames long. v4.2 base, morphs++, and a bodysuit. The only morph I used was "breast large" and the dial is set at .250 

Ok another issue I'm running into is clothing poke thriugh when I apply morphs for just poses. I've tried morphing the clothing but it would be nice to get an exact fit. Ive also conformed the clothing and magnetized, but if the hips, legs, or breasts are too large I start running into some issues.  

Would both of these issues be fixed if I upgraded from 2012 to 2014 and used the morph copying feature youv'e mentioned. Would I be able to then make clothing fit and combination of morps I use?

I tried using Naikav4 and messing with her morph dials. then applying additional morphs and once I try to apply clothing it never seems to fit the chest or hips area. I conformed the clothing and used the Naikav4 fixer and magnetized as well.

If I load v4 and then Naika clothing seems to fit fine if i dont set the morph dials too high but somewhere it seems there is a limit and the clothing only stretches so far.

The first thing to check is that the magnetise pose is working - try rotating one of the collars on V4 up, the breast will be pulled up (by a hidden magnet); if the clothing doesn't change visibly then magnetisation didn't take, if the dress does deform then the magnets are working and the problem is probably a lack of morphs in the clothing.

I appreciate you takin the time to respond. Its making my Poser experience much smoother having all this help along the way. One thing thats been bugging me is I load a gym scene, and then load v4. I will then move her to where the teadmill is and rotate her so she is facing the correct direction. I then apply a walk animation with the walk designer and on frame one everything looks to be good but then on frame 2 v4 goes back to the default location (like when I first load her into the scene) and shes no longer on the treadmill or facing the right direction. Any thoughts on how I could keep her on the treadmill the entire walk cycle?

Also Im still struggeling with clothing poke through during the walk animation. I went ahead and upgraded to poserpro2014 yesterday and I was hopeing the copy morphs feature would fix the problem. I followed the Smith and Micro tutarial but I'm still not quite getting the results Im seaking.

Im trying to fit a top and bottom called "bad girl 4" Im also using the Naika morphs package. I have to load the morps package from the props menue. It seems the clothes only strech so far even with the fixer that comes witht the morph package. Upon applying the Naika inj and just fitting the top before I mess with any dials the top automatically has poke-through. 

Does the copy morphs feature recognize the naika morphs?I can see them in the morphs list when I copy the morphs from v4 to the clothing. It seems most of the clothing morphs fine but take for instance the bottoms seem to have skin poke through if I set the glute dial too high.

If I copied the morphs shouldnt the clothing stretch as far as the body?

Ok and if thats not enough=P Im wondering can any clothing be turned dynamic in the cloth room. Take for instance this bad girl bikini top and bottom. If I had the know how is it possible to make the clothing look more reralistic and more correctly with her body? 

If Naika loads from the Props library and not the Pose library I would suspect it's a magnet set - in which case you need to tell the magnets to affect the clothing. That may well be what the Adj pose does, but such things can be very sensitive to the order in which they are done - if there isn't a readme with better instructions try loading V4, applying Naika, then loading one of the clothing items, applying the magnetise and Naika adj poses, selecting V4, loading the next piece of clothing, and again applying the magnetise and adj poses, and so on. As for the Walk Designer, I've not used it but I think you need to define the walk path - in your case presumably standing more-or-less in one spot - and it then applies the walk cycle along the path.I suspect you may be better off just using a straight walk cycle, rather than the Walk Designer, but I really am not an animator.

the bikini may not include all the morphs applied to V4 with Naika. or jcm's activated by some poses.

a useful utility like D3D Morphing Clothes is handy to add missing morphs to clothes.

but i'm only on pp12, maybe pp14 can add the morphs with the fitting room?

You could add morphs in the fitting room, but if the clothing is already designated to a particular model, use the copy morph feature instead.

Ok, I have a question that (I think) belongs to that category:

How can I make a surface refective in Poser 10?

I have found reflections under the advanced tab in the material room, but there is no slider to add a value. How is that done?

You must have an environment skydome or populated room for reflection to work accurately.  Unfortunately, I am not at my own computer to provide a node arrangement image to create reflections.  However, there are plenty of threads in the forum covering the same topic.  You need to search back far enough.

Quote - Ok, I have a question that (I think) belongs to that category:

How can I make a surface refective in Poser 10?

I have found reflections under the advanced tab in the material room, but there is no slider to add a value. How is that done?

Are you wanting to turn an object into a mirror, or simply make it reflect light onto another surface?

All kinds of reflections.

Mirrors, yes, but also polished metal, tiled floors and anything that is not only glossy, but also reflects the environment.

A mirror, in my opinion, is nothing else then a plain silverish plane with maximum reflection settings. So it should not be much difference with different materials, but I dont know how to get reflections to work in Poser.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2722867

I believe this thread might be resurrected back as a sticky but it contains a section on reflection links as you scroll down.  Some methods are obsolete, like image maps connected to reflect nodes.  This should get you started.  Also, search the RuntimeDNA forum for reflection topics, especially those involving Bagginsbill's inputs and tutes.

As soon as the holidays pass and I can get back to it, there is a team working on the new Poser FAQ. We will be extracting material of this sort for the FAQ. ANYONE who has a thread bookmarked that they found useful in performing specific tasks should beel free to make a post here to make sure that thread's material gets included in the new FAQ.

ALL help appreciated!

Basicwiz: I have been seeing a considerable increase in new users attempting to use DAZ's DSON in Poser and having a horrific time configuring their apps.  Many threads are becoming repetitious; either the users are too lazy to search the forum or are having a terrible time using the right keywords to conduct successful searches.  Would it be possible to create a sticky directing those interested to useful information?  I know this is something that needs time to develop, but would it be feasible and necessary?