This is the customized interface I use in P4, just wondering if anyone else has customized there layout, and what their's look like.

hmmm...i always change my poser layout..but when i close poser and open it later on again its the default layout..but thats just now since i have the update for 4.0.3..i wonder why..if anyone knows the problem..then pls help me out. :) peace

Once you get your interface sset up the way you like it, go to the Poser Edit menu. Select General Preferences. Make sure Lauch to Preferred State is selected, and Use Previous State is selected. Click on Set Preferred State button then Ok. Next time you start Poser it should be set up just like you left it . Soectre

the way to save the layout so it opens to the state you last used it in, is change the layout to how you want it, then go to Edit->General Preferences, and click the options Launch To Preferred State and Use Previous State, then click Set Preferred State and your good to go.

lol, you posted that as i was writing it

ok followed your instructions (thnx)..but its still not working...i post here now 2 screenshot pics..the one with the blue layout is like i saved it the other one is how it looks like when i open poser again!

thats how it looks like after i saved the layout and opend poser again... :( ..it weird that it is just now since i have the 4.0.3 update..

don't feel back azad...mine will never save either, even tho I've done all of the above. And it did used to save before I applied the update ;). Strange, huh? Laurie

Try using the UI Dots.

Here is my setup.

I set things up the way I like then use the UI dots. Click the dots for different setups.

Thanks Little_Dragon...that's what I use now ;). Laurie

OK. How did you get your Tools and Display Style layout to be verticle? I always wished I could do that but never figured out how. Thanks!

To make verticle, press the alt key as you click on the title. I gave up on trying to have poser save, then load my set-up to a preferred state. I use UI dots.

Heres mine

Attached Link: http://www.theattic.nl

This is the way mine is set up. Been experimenting with trying to get the widest possible working space for the actual pose window and I think this is the biggest you can get with everything in reach and without putting tools on top of each other. I do have to point out that my screen resolution is 1152 x 864 so that makes everything smaller so you can use more space. When I open my character/props/poses "toolbar" it drops over the image a bit but after I choose the prop or whatever I close that right away and have the most possible space that way. And I also have problems with saving this set up, but I use the UI dots for that. Been trying everything to save it, but it just won't. Probably a bug of the 4.0.3 update. Laterrrrr, Johnnie...

Here's mine. I run at 1280 x 1024, but for this thread I resized it to 800 wide. My working window is 845x845 and all toolbars I need are available entirely. I very rarely use the animation pallette so I hide it.

hey you guys... delete the poser.lnk in your start menu, and then make a new one. THEN poser should remember your preferred state. i like my doc style and tools close by the window edge and dials, so i dont have to move my hand too far to get to every control i need.

Hey Everybody! I use a screen similiar to Swannie's. I would show it to you, but I don't know how to make an image of the screen. Would someone tell me how? Thanks! Jay

Well, this may be a silly question, but how do you guys change Poser's interface color? The grey default interface with white characters is so difficult to read. Robin.

I had the same problem of my interface not sticking. It only did that after I installed the 4.03 update. Let's see if I can remember this. I ended up having to uninstall the update, reinstall the original Poser 4, then saving the old poser.rsr file. When I installed the 4.03 update, I replaced the poser.rsr file with the old one. This fixed it. There's a glitch in the 4.03 update. You don't have to use the UI dots. That's a pain every time you open Poser. Just delete the 4.03 rsr file in the Poser directory and replace it with the old 4.01 (or whatever) version. This is the advice I got from the forum members here and it worked for me. Melanie

newbie guy here! i don't like to run fullscreen cuz i'm liable to want to pull up a text file and make a note or open my browser and post a clueless question here, so my question is this: those two tools that cling to the right (figure selector) and bottom (animation) edges of the poser window get lost if i come off fullscreen. how do i access them if i'm not running fullscreen? i can move all the other tools, but i don't know how to move those two. thank you, miker

One Thing I would like to do is change Fonts, and Font colors. Anyone know how to do that?

Mine is too big to post but here is an image from it.

Jay hit the print screen button on your keyboard then open your paint app create a new pic same size as your screen size then paste....heres mine :o)......Steve

Ahhh! So that's how that Print Screen button works! I always wondered about that. :) Thanks, Steve! Anyway, here's the screen that I use for Poser. Basicly, I tried to maximize the work area space. The hummingbird is by Ken Gilliland. Jay

Funny thing them UI dots. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. When I File>Open certain .PZ3s and then select a UI dot to change the screen real estate, they just don't function. Other .PZ3s I have ZERO problem reseting or altering the screen via the UI dots. I have 4 ways I set up my screen depending on what I plan on doing. I have a Real Lights setup. It is a setup for saving lights to the library. It is inspired by Don Albert's LightBall (if you have the Neon, Metallic et al set ups you've see it). But I use a textured P4 female and 4 textured primitives and 2 big all-white primitives in this one. I have ComicSizedClear for when I'm in the mood to do some comic book stuff and the saved images go right into my Photoshop saved templates. Then there is the Untitled, No actor, no lights, no background images. A general blank canvas 575x570. I just made a variant of Untitled, with no lights, Posette zero position, hidden wireframe, default background. (A nice black wirefarme on the grey background.) I use this setup for quick posing and placing of characters without worrying about lighting and textures.

Steve: Wow. Have you got a widescreen monitor or something, or are you just running Poser in windowed mode? skinrobin: To change the color of Poser's interface, click on the Color Selection Tool (the paint bucket in the Editing Tools group), or just press C on your keyboard. Move your cursor over the Poser workspace background (not the Document window) and the cursor will change to a paint bucket. Click on the background, and you'll see a color picker, with which you can change the background color. If you need to change the color back to default gray later, ALT-click on the background, and it'll revert to normal. This is buried in the manual, by the way, in between the info on the UI dots and setting up the Document window. zspider: You can move pretty much everything except the menu bar (on the top), the Libraries Palette (on the right) and the Animation controls (on the bottom). Maybe in Poser 5 ... More Stupid UI Tricks: To free up additional work space, you can toggle a tool set on and off by double-clicking its title (the Light Controls, for instance). To free up even more space, you can toggle the tool titles themselves on and off by using the Tool Title option in the Window menu, or by pressing CTRL-minus key. They reappear when you move the cursor over them, and slowly fade out after you move the cursor away.

heyas; no, im pretty sure the rebuilding the shortcut solves the 'poser doesn't remember my preferences' glitch. it had something to do with something in the link pointing to metacreations, vs the update patch, which tries to point to curiouslabs. once you get the shortcut straightened out on where your poser is, it will remember your prefs. steve, thats nuts! why do you have all that empty space?? whadda you got a widescreen home theater hooked up to your computer? :) oh, you change the background colour by grabbing the fill tool and clicking on the background. pick a colour. (mine's usually sky blue, sea blue, purple, or pink, depending on my mood or what i'm working on. i have dark grey and dark green too, but i dont use those as much. and one ui dot for animation setup.) i dont know if there is a way to change the text colour.

here's a question, does anyone know how to replace Pose/UI/Camera Dots?

nevermind i figured it out, you just hold down alt and click them

Just click an empty Dot to set it. Alt click to remove one.

everything works now..cause i got the poser pro pack now..so it saves the interface...anyways here is a screenshot... (damn unregistered shareware..*pointing at the watermark*)

I hate to say this...Daz male texture is really nice but the Penis part on the texture looks like an anal sex disaster!

I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. Never put Mike's manhood into a Video Toaster. Does anyone here know why the wireframe acrobat is a draggable background element? Not to complain too loudly, but maybe that 4K could be used more constructively in a memory hog and we'll just plod on along with one less bit of whimsy...

better yet does anybody know how the hell we could get rid of it, or possibly replace it?

lol@anal sex disaster

bigro2k2: I'm not sure how you can replace or get rid of the wireframe acrobat, but if it really irritates you, ALT-click on it until it disappears.