I got my laptop up and running smooth as silk. I already have Poser Pro 11 installed on my desktop. Word on the street is that I have up to 3 installations coming to me. What do I have to do to install it on my Laptop as well? Just install using the same license? Should I wait until the big update? When is the big update that will tie us to our new wonderful Poser Overlords? I'd love to be able to watch Football while Poser is rendering another scene.

Thanks!

All you do is install it using the same serial number and it will self-activate (like your first installation did). I don't know what Renderosity's new policy will be, whether it's the same or not, we'll just have to wait and see. I think the new update is this Thursday, but I'm not 100% sure.

1944 Double Die. I had them until they were stolen in school. Wheatpenny knows what I mean.

It sounds like I should wait until Friday but procrastination is the killer of invention. Thanks, I'll give it a try. I guess because when I purchased it, SM still owned Poser...but I bought it here because I had been burned by defunct websites before and Content Paradise wanted to charge me a fee for storing downloading my own paid for content. Finally, I made a good decision. I'll try it and let everyone know how it worked. Of course, if anyone has done this already, please chime in.

Thanks Wheaties!

With the exception of Queue Manager, you can only load Poser on one computer at a time. If you try to open Poser on a second computer you will get an error message.

Queue Manager, of course, needs to run on all machines involved in the que and it will.

You can install up to 3 times...but you can RUN only one instance at a time.

Glitterati3D posted at 8:00PM Sun, 15 September 2019 - #4362039

With the exception of Queue Manager, you can only load Poser on one computer at a time. If you try to open Poser on a second computer you will get an error message.

Queue Manager, of course, needs to run on all machines involved in the queue and it will.

Clearly, one of you is mistaken. Queue Manager. How can I use it without using Poser? I am ignorant of this fact so please bear with me. Poser Pro 11 doesn't check with the net each time I fire it up. It's not unusual for software to allow more than one seat. Wheatpenny says Yes. Gliteratti says No. If the answer is no, why not? Yes, I will digress but barely. I'm not a business. I won't give it away to my friend under the pretense of a seat.

Okay. I did some research and I understand that the queue manager is kind of a plug-in and by necessity it needs to run on more than one machine to work. But I still would like to do as I hope. Be able to use Poser on both machines.

jennblake posted at 8:42PM Sun, 15 September 2019 - #4362040

You can install up to 3 times...but you can RUN only one instance at a time.

In the words of Denzel Washington in the movie Philadelphia...explain to me like I'm a five year old. I'm one person. I can only work on machine at a time. I've tried to clone myself and the result was it didn't work! (Would that be a violation of solipsism?) Are you saying that I can only have machine actually running the software at a time. Not to be sneaky but Poser doesn't check in with the server each time I want to use it.

I'm so confused. ?

You can install on more than one machine but the downside is if you are sharing a network then you will be only able to run one instance at a time. The only workaround is to disconnect your second computer from the network. Won't help if you are using queue manager. Now if someone can verify the official release date. My Poser alert has a tentative release of September 16th and there hasn't been an update on that date.

As of today. Release date will be Thursday, September 19th.

quietrob posted at 11:55PM Sun, 15 September 2019 - #4362045

jennblake posted at 8:42PM Sun, 15 September 2019 - #4362040

You can install up to 3 times...but you can RUN only one instance at a time.

In the words of Denzel Washington in the movie Philadelphia...explain to me like I'm a five year old. I'm one person. I can only work on machine at a time. I've tried to clone myself and the result was it didn't work! (Would that be a violation of solipsism?) Are you saying that I can only have machine actually running the software at a time. Not to be sneaky but Poser doesn't check in with the server each time I want to use it.

I'm so confused. ?

If your computers are back to back then you can technically run software on both machines at the same time. I have done it plenty of times when working. SM did have the Poser phone home at one time as a way to keep your license active. Don't use the software over a period of time, it gets deactivated and you need to re-register.

jennblake posted at 11:59PM Sun, 15 September 2019 - #4362049

As of today. Release date will be Thursday, September 19th.

Thank you for the verification.

[hborre]

I'm so confused. ?

If your computers are back to back then you can technically run software on both machines at the same time. I have done it plenty of times when working. SM did have the Poser phone home at one time as a way to keep your license active. Don't use the software over a period of time, it gets deactivated and you need to re-register.

Hmm, the best way to test is to test it. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post my results. If anyone has gotten the error message and is NOT running Game Developer, please let me know here. Thanks to all for your help.

jennblake posted at 6:26AM Mon, 16 September 2019 - #4362049

As of today. Release date will be Thursday, September 19th.

CRAP! I was up all night tossing and turning and itching to download. Now, I have to wait ANOTHER THREE DAYS. I'm having childhood flashbacks to Christmas eve.

quietrob posted at 6:52AM Mon, 16 September 2019 - #4362045

In the words of Denzel Washington in the movie Philadelphia...explain to me like I'm a five year old.

Say you have a desktop at your kitchen breakfast nook, a workstation in your home office, and a laptop. The P11Pro license allows you to install P11Pro on all three of those machines. The license permits you to run P11Pro on any one computer at a time.

So, you might work in Poser on the kitchen desktop while having morning coffee (close when finished!), then later work in Poser on the office workstation. Before bed, you might open the scene on which you've been working on the laptop, and send a batch list of test/promo renders off to queue.

If you have access to extra computers, you may install Queue Manager on as many computers as you can scrounge up.

You would send an animation -or batch list- to the queue remotes from one of the three P11Pro computers. Once that master machine's Queue auto-launches, you could close Poser if you like, or work on a different scene. Queue makes its own copy of the PZ3 to send to the remotes, so you're now free to do other work with Poser if you want. Don't shut down the master machine which sent the job to queue, because the remotes will return their finished renders to that machine. You can close Poser, but don't shut the master computer down.

EClark1894 posted at 10:58AM Mon, 16 September 2019 - #4362066

jennblake posted at 6:26AM Mon, 16 September 2019 - #4362049

As of today. Release date will be Thursday, September 19th.

CRAP! I was up all night tossing and turning and itching to download. Now, I have to wait ANOTHER THREE DAYS. I'm having childhood flashbacks to Christmas eve.

pat pat there there, it'll be ok.

seachnasaigh posted at 11:18AM Mon, 16 September 2019 - #4362077

quietrob posted at 6:52AM Mon, 16 September 2019 - #4362045

In the words of Denzel Washington in the movie Philadelphia...explain to me like I'm a five year old.

Say you have a desktop at your kitchen breakfast nook, a workstation in your home office, and a laptop. The P11Pro license allows you to install P11Pro on all three of those machines. The license permits you to run P11Pro on any one computer at a time.

So, you might work in Poser on the kitchen desktop while having morning coffee (close when finished!), then later work in Poser on the office workstation. Before bed, you might open the scene on which you've been working on the laptop, and send a batch list of test/promo renders off to queue.

If you have access to extra computers, you may install Queue Manager on as many computers as you can scrounge up.

You would send an animation -or batch list- to the queue remotes from one of the three P11Pro computers. Once that master machine's Queue auto-launches, you could close Poser if you like, or work on a different scene. Queue makes its own copy of the PZ3 to send to the remotes, so you're now free to do other work with Poser if you want. Don't shut down the master machine which sent the job to queue, because the remotes will return their finished renders to that machine. You can close Poser, but don't shut the master computer down.

Thank you, Earl. That was completely understandable. So I can only run Poser one at a time, not work on two machines on different scenes (as I wish to do but still...) but I can still use the other machine, my breakfast nook laptop to render a scene using the queue manager and keep diligently working away. Sorry I didn't understand, Jenn. I still had instancing in my head and it broke down when you mentioned one instance at a time. Sigh...getting old is not for sissies.