I have downloaded from the free section hair/poses... etc. I load them into poser/runtime/ and then the appropriate folder and when I launch poser they do not show up. The folder does, but the content does not. What am I doing wrong? Also am I right to assume that Vicky clothes probably do not fit on any poser figure? and that I would need to buy Vicky for the clothes. Thanks juju-b

Make sure you have them in the correct folders. Trying to remember (at work now without a copy of Poser), hair goes in runtime/libraries/hair/newfolder, and poses go in runtime/libraries/poses/newfolder. (Newfolder being the specific folder in which you want them organized.)

Make sure that you don't have any sub-folders off of 'newfolder', because they will not be displayed within Poser.

When unzipping files, be careful of the folder to which they are being extracted. Some files are zipped with folder paths that may not match your Poser directory. When I first started with Poser and downloaded free files, I had the problem of not being able to find what I just unzipped, because I wasn't paying attention to the extraction paths. Every now and then I still have to move a file that's been tucked to something strange like:

D:Poser4librariespropsfurnitureProgram FilesMetaCreationsPoserlibrariespropscouchescouch.pp2

The "standard" way of putting Poser files into a ZIP is to have them all in the correctly named folders starting with the Runtime folder , if the Zip is extracted into the Poser 4 directory (or folder), the one that Poser.exe lives in everything will automatically go into the right place. Note you tell Winzip the Poser 4 folder though, not the Runtime one, when it asks where they go, else you will end up with a Poser 4/Runtime/Runtime/whatever set. This is a requirement for the store here, incidently, and many follow it on their Free Stuff as well. Yeah, and it took me a long time to figure out what they were doing, too, as many of us are read-me impaired!

Attached Link: http://www.soft-rabbit.com/

Just in case... if you're on Mac you will need to convert the stuff before Poser accepts it - just follow this link.

Attached Link: http://poserutils.tripod.com/index.html

PInstall is a standalone application which allows you to install poser library objects (characters, poses, textures, etc) without needing to figure out which files go in which Poser subdirectory--PInstall does it for you. You don't even have to unzip library files stored in zip archives. Also, you can use PInstall to unzip and install a variable number of archives automatically! Let it do the work for you.

Pinstall works! also if you want to do it that hard way I have a nice diagram that shows where everything goes. http://www.3dtutor.com also the readme that comes with the zip archive should tell where to put everything. Hold onto those ZIPs! don't unarchive them all together