marciz posted at 4:34PM Sat, 15 July 2017 - #4309889

Well, good advice, I've learned my lesson on this one.

But all is not bad. Somehow, the problem fixed itself for the most part.

In Poser 9, I had a directory/folder for scenes, among the other folders for the program. Those scenes are still accessible with Poser 9. (However, when I open that folder in Explorer, it shows the folder empty).
Poser 11 can't see them at all. So they are not lost or corrupted, but I can't figure out why P11 can't see them, or neither can the OS. They open normally in Poser9.

Another thing is, when I open Poser 11, I get the Permissions box where I tell it I'm the admin and giving it permission to "modify this computer". I downloaded the updated program and installed it--so the disc version I had is gone off the PC. Not to mention all the confusion and hoops I had to jump thru to get the thing registered.

anyway, I've spent far too much time on this and bothered you folks with it, by straying off topic. I appreciate the help though! And thanks hornet3D!

I'm thinking it may be time to dump Poser entirely. I bought 11, because they sold me on the "Superfly" renderer. I wanted more realistic renders. I've tried Superfly with a couple of the wretched stock Poser figures. I'm not impressed, but maybe I just need to read my manual yet. I mean, at minimum, V4 was a big improvement over Poser figures. It's just that when DAZ came up with Genesis, getting it into Poser became, for me, rocket science.

I don't think one can get the Daz Genesis into Poser any more--I'm out of the loop on that one. And from what I've read and seen, their renderer is pretty impressive. I just wasn't into investing a ton more time in learning a new interface and buying a slew of new add ons, etc.. Anyway, Blender looks interesting as well...

All for now.

First question is where exactly is your Poser 9 file located? If they files are there, which you seem to confirm they are but the OS is not seeing them is could be a privileges issue. If the OS can't see them that could explain why Poser 11 is not seeing them, but it is strange that Poser can.

Don't give up on you Superfly if you want more realistic renders. SM have done a really good job of trying to get Superfly working with Firefly but there are a few nodes in Firefly materials that it does not handle well. This means some materials do not render well in Superfly without some tweaks. Skin is one area that needs working on but the best solution there is to fun any figure through Ezskin3 which makes the changes for Superfly in some easy steps. From the box Superfly works with well with metals so give those a try as you delve into working with Superfly.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.