Hi everyone.

I always assigned the textures using the simple tab. Sometimes I would browse thought a half dozen or more and see how they looked in the preview window before deciding which one I was going to use.

Once I figured out which one I was going to use, I'd go to the Advanced window and do the settings.

This seems much harder to do than the old way. It's like Windows, they keep taking things that were easy to do and making them harder.

But I'm working on it, I haven't succeeded, yet I just started trying to follow the instructions.

It was so easy before, I'm a "just for fun animator", I like to do animated jokes etc. and I do everything in Preview mode, I was an Illustrator and Graphic Designer as well as a Photographer as a trade, I'm retired and 83.

Actually rendering a clip of 3 or 4 hundred frames is just too slow to be practical. And the truth is that the quick rendered modes (which are still very slow) don't look nearly as good and the preview image.

I do every thing at large sizes, so I can show them full screen, now at UHD settings, and when finished they look like the rendered image pretty much in a fraction of the rendering time. One frame is practically instantaneous, in Preview, instead of taking 10 or 15 minutes or more.

I've sometimes done single clips with voice that are a thousand frames long, no way I'm going to do a real render on that.

Especially when I see it done and want to change things in it.

I posted comparison photos way back showing my Preview images next to the Rendered images done much smaller and then put them side by side at the same size. Sometimes the Preview images looked better.

The only real weakness is the shadow handling of the Preview images, many times I just turn off shadows, but I've gotten rid of most of the problems.

Now I'm interested in how much faster Poser 12 will be doing the same tasks. Having something 6,000 frames long would be a just too long to do rendered, I'm not Hollywood.

And doing them a full size and high resolutions I can't even image.

Anyway, if I can figure out how to load my textures and I usually use my textures for everything clothes props etc. I can see it's going to be more time-consuming than using Poser 11.

I may do what I have been doing, applying all the textures in Poser 11 and then moving the components to Poser 12 to put it together and animate it.

By the way I started out with Poser 3 or 4 I really can't remember which anymore.

Thanks again for the help.

Mike

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