I've been away from Poser for a few years but I am finally getting back. I have a ton of content that was at one time saved into individual runtimes. Now, I am finding that all that work and saving to storage was a failure. I am now re-downloading all content but have completely forgotten all I knew about building runtimes and using them. there used to be a very good tutorial by Little Fox that worked well for me but I can't find it any where on the web. Could someone point me to a tutorial for Poser 11 that can get me going? I understand the file structure and even have a blank runtime, but I dread the thought of having to move all this content into individual runtimes and getting them working. I know there is a better way, like unzipping the content to a blank runtime.

TIA

Charlie~

You don't say what OS you're using, but newer versions of Windows are paranoid about putting files in the "Program" folder. Because of that, don't put your runtimes in the "Poser" folder. Just too much of a pain. (Poser's default runtime now installs in the Documents folder.)

Aside from that, it's pretty easy. When you open the zip file, there should be a folder called "Runtime." Just extract that into the folder you want to contain the runtime. For example, I have separate runtimes for each figure, so I have folders named Vicky4, Mike4, LaFemme, Dawn, etc. Each of those contains a folder called Runtime. If I buy a new dress for, say, LaFemme, I'll extract the runtime folder into the folder called LaFemme. Everything should fall into the right directory structure automatically.

First decide on the names of the runtimes you want. It is easiest to do this at the beginning rather than try to re-organise later. It is easy to add more runtimes later, and possible to merge runtimes, but if you want to split runtimes that basically entails re-installing your content, so best avoided.

In somewhere like public documents (somewhere that poser has write access to) create folders with the names of the runtimes you want, and in each of these create a folder called runtime. . Now you can add these runtimes to poser. In the library panel is an icon looking likes books with a plus symbol. Clicking on this opens an explorer window, navigate to one of your runtimes and click ok, this will and the runtime to your libraries. Repeat until you have added them all.

To add your content to these, check the zip file to see if the first folder in it is called runtime. If so you can use the install from zip archive in the poser file menu. This will open a drop down menu from which you can choose the runtime into which you wish to install it. Otherwise you need to unzip the file and move the runtime folder into the library name folder you have created so it merges with the runtime folder already there.

Once the content is installed you can move it around inside the library to better organise it if you wish. I find this easiest to do in explorer rather than in poser itself.

randym77 posted at 4:26PM Sun, 24 March 2019 - #4348670

You don't say what OS you're using, but newer versions of Windows are paranoid about putting files in the "Program" folder. Because of that, don't put your runtimes in the "Poser" folder. Just too much of a pain. (Poser's default runtime now installs in the Documents folder.)

Windows 10 here, and my main Poser Runtime is installed in my I:/Poser 11 Content. All my Runtimes are in my I: hdd. It's just a matter of choosing an advanced instalation, then picking the option to choose where the Runtime goes.

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 3:30PM Sun, 24 March 2019 - #4348708

Windows 10 here, and my main Poser Runtime is installed in my I:/Poser 11 Content. All my Runtimes are in my I: hdd. It's just a matter of choosing an advanced instalation, then picking the option to choose where the Runtime goes.

I have all my runtimes on an external drive, too. (The P: drive, for Poser. :-)

But the OP said he's been away from Poser for years, so I thought he might try to put the runtimes where they used to be: in the main Poser folder. Doing that is a massive headache these days.

BTW...does it matter where the !DAZ folder is these days? I remember at one point, you could have DAZ figures in external runtimes, but you had to copy the !DAZ folder into the main runtime, which was in the main Poser folder. Is that still true, or did they fix it? (I don't use the DAZ figures that much any more, so I haven't had to test it.)

randym77 posted at 2:34PM Mon, 25 March 2019 - #4348710

BTW...does it matter where the !DAZ folder is these days? I remember at one point, you could have DAZ figures in external runtimes, but you had to copy the !DAZ folder into the main runtime, which was in the main Poser folder. Is that still true, or did they fix it? (I don't use the DAZ figures that much any more, so I haven't had to test it.)

The !DAZ folder needs to stay in the same runtime (on the same level as the Geometries folder) as the figures that are in it. - Everything in that folder is hard coded - so don't move it (Like putting it in Morphs subfolder, where Poser vendors put things that the end user doesn't need to be messing with.)

Trust me on this one. :(

ssgbryan posted at 11:03AM Tue, 26 March 2019 - #4348828

The !DAZ folder needs to stay in the same runtime (on the same level as the Geometries folder) as the figures that are in it. - Everything in that folder is hard coded - so don't move it (Like putting it in Morphs subfolder, where Poser vendors put things that the end user doesn't need to be messing with.)

Trust me on this one. :(

Thanks! The only reason I was even thinking of moving it (actually copying it) was that I remember there being issues with DAZ figures in external runtimes, that could be fixed by copying the !DAZ folder to the main runtime. Sounds like it will be fine if I just leave it where it extracts now.