If you're wondering why, I have an old product for Poser 5 I really like to use on special occasions that has never been updated.

Is it possible? Anyone know? I tried. It installed, but it won't launch, telling me it has to install drivers. Does anyone know of a work-around?

Thanks.

Why not use the product in an actual version of Poser? I have a lot of items from Poser 4 and they work fine.

Unless it is a Python script it should work in any Poser version. The Poser 4 renderer was kept through Poser 7 (although Poser 7 doesn't run in Windows 7).

You would certainly need to install it outside of the C:\Program Files hierarchy, as UAC would prevent you from installing content into its runtime folder...

Poser 5 is an actual version of Poser.

Yes. It uses Python. It is called "Particles" -- not Ron's Particles. I bought it from DAZ but as far as I can tell was never updated. I've looked at the code but even though I understand Python somewhat, I really can't hope to update it in any kind of reasonable time frame. It does not seem to even be for sale any more, not even this old version. There's another product, also, that is also a script-based product that only works for Poser 5 that I kinda like, but Particles is the one I didn't want to lose.

I installed it outside the Program Files hierarchy, but as I said, it won't launch.

I guess my only option is probably to try to install an old version of Windows and Poser 5 inside a virtual machine ... if I decide to go to the trouble.

Thanks anyway.

If you want Particles get Blender or add them in ,in Post with Gimp

RorrKonn, unless you know something I don't (quite likely), those effects are not at all the same.

But thanks for the suggestion anyway.

donquixote posted at 1:21PM Thu, 28 January 2016 - #4251767

Poser 5 is an actual version of Poser.

Yes. It uses Python. It is called "Particles" -- not Ron's Particles. I bought it from DAZ but as far as I can tell was never updated...

Poseworks' Particles was was made open-source several years ago, and SnarlyGribbley released an updated version last year. It can be downloaded here; link is about a third of the way down...

http://orphans.basicwiz.com

EDIT; here is the product page from Google's cache, as it is no longer in the DAZ Store: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KanXrnfINpEJ:www.daz3d.com/particles-3-pz-1+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Particles are just a way to make smoke ,fire etc etc some really cool special effects.

For animations you would need a app like Blenders that has anime Particles or something like Adobe After Effects.

but for one frame stills you can just paint cool special effects.like Deviney over at daz does with he's brush sets ,or you could just paint them free hand.

WandW posted at 8:27AM Fri, 29 January 2016 - #4251726

Unless it is a Python script it should work in any Poser version. The Poser 4 renderer was kept through Poser 7 (although Poser 7 doesn't run in Windows 7).

You would certainly need to install it outside of the C:Program Files hierarchy, as UAC would prevent you from installing content into its runtime folder...

Poser 7 does work on my Win7 Pro 64Bit But it's an off-line computer, maybe a M$ update killed compatibility? I have it installed outside the C:Program Files folders

GeofiX posted at 9:55AM Fri, 29 January 2016 - #4251955

Poser 7 does work on my Win7 Pro 64Bit But it's an off-line computer, maybe a M$ update killed compatibility? I have it installed outside the C:Program Files folders

I have it installed on my D: drive. It used to work, but now crashes when accessing the Library, so it was likely an update, as you said...

WandW, Thanks for the clarification on this issue.

M$ updates: One of many reasons to keep my art computer off-line.

Thanks, WandW! I will check it out.

And thanks to RorrKonn and everyone else, too, of course.

I don't know about current versions of Blender, etc., but at the time I was using it, I got some effects in Particles that I was not able to achieve at the time with the other software I was using, at least not without a whole lot more work.

Of course, that may not be the case anymore. It's been a while since I worked or played around with anything other than Poser and ZBrush.

Thanks again everyone for your feedback.

Poseworks was the vendor for Particles. He sold versions 1 to 3 through DAZ. After a long absence, he made the code open source (along with Glowrom and ShaderSpider). Snarly created Prarticles 3+ which you can find the link over at RDNA.

Poser 5 runs just fine on Win7 Pro 64 bit. If you have the original version of Particles, it will run on all versions of Poser from P5 to P7 as well as the first version of Poser Pro. If you create a particle prop and save it, it will run on newer versions of Poser but you will have to tweak the material settings and lighting as those have changed over the years. Sorry I can speak as to it's ability to run on Win10. I haven't seen a need to upgrade.

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If installing any pre-Millenium software I would recommend to install it on another directory than the standard Program Files. Starting with Millenium Windows began to lock the usage of that directory and it can no longer be used for data storage. Hence you will not be able to work properly with the default Runtime library. You will have no problem Installing P5 in a custom directory.