I just upgraded to Poser 12 after a year of hassle, and found that all my Poser 10 files have problems.  The biggest thing is this - the objects all appear, but the characters do not (they seem to be invisible, and not listed on the scene elements), although there are indications there is some memory of them being there (interface points, etc.).  Now, some of the characters that were in those scenes are OLD...P5 figures...so that may be a problem, but I was wondering if anyone has encountered this and/or has some suggestions for solutions.

Thanks!

DE

It happens to me, from time to time, even with more recent stuff.
Most of the time, I change the texture display value so that it corresponds to the biggest bitmap size.

Did you link your old P10 library runtimes to the P12 Library?  The thread title mentions 'movement' which leads me to think of a physical transfer of content from one folder to another.  Correct me if I am wrong.

Sorry, I did not do any linking - 'just installed P12 and opened up my old files.  Is there a dialog box or other cue to get the linking to take place?  BTW, this is on a Mac.

Thanks, D

The best solution is to link your Poser 10 library to your Poser 12 library as an external runtime.

NEVER directly copy older runtimes over newer runtimes. That can create a real library mess.

Regardless of whether your platform is a MAC or PC, on the upper-right-hand corner of your Library panel there are these icons: .  Those will link/unlink the external runtime folders on your system.  In this case, the Poser 10 runtime folder would become the external runtime folder to Poser 12.  Otherwise, as you have discovered, all your old scenes are searching for files that are not connected to the Poser 12 Library.

And as DCArt posted, overwriting a new runtime with an old one is asking for disaster.

OK...sorry, folks, I don't know how to do any of that (my apologies)...also, I'm on a Mac, not a PC.  That probably makes it much harder.

Thanks for you efforts...if you have any Mac suggestions, fire away!

D

Regardless of Mac or Win, this should be same.

Open your Poser 12.

Make sure you open your Library by clicking on the Library icon (stacked books looking icon) in upper right of screen.

Find the Add Library icon that looks like what hborre posted above. Click it.

Navigate to the folder in the menu that opens that houses your Piser 10 Library (depending where you installed those these can be in your Documents under Poser 10 or elsewhere... you may need to do a search for folders called 'runtime' to locate and you must choose the folder that is a level above the Runtime folder).

Depending on how you installed content,  you may gave multiples, and in order to use older work files you created in Poser10, you need to find where those are. The work files only contain references to where the actual content is located.

I hope that makes sense a bit.

Major advantage of using external libraries for all but the most 'core', frequently used items is so they do not clutter Poser's in-house run-time folder tree, may be easily culled...

My 'as required' external libraries are spread across three big drives, 1TB E:+ F:, 4TB G:, would be utterly unprintably unmanageable were I to stuff contents into Poser's Runtime on C: Besides, they simply would not fit...