From the PFO forum...Larry Weinberg wrote: ------------------------------------------------- Due to the delays of the MetaCreations restructuring, I've decided to UNOFFICIALLY post the latest build of our Poser 4 patch. Contact me directly for problems with this. Do not call MetaCreations. Their tech support cannot help with this patch. Patches are at: http://host-1.ghosteffects.com/poser/patch/patch.html My email is larry@ghosteffects.com Happy Hollidays... -------------------------------------------------

Wow - Cool deal. Damn the Fix list is sooo long. Clint

This is not the final version, it's the latest Beta, so you might have a few problems with it. -JH.

Thank you for letting us know!!! Yes Virginia, it looks like there WILL be a Christmas!! Jack

HEY that's MY LINE! Now what the 'eck am I supposed to say ... Hmm...maybe...just maybe...Hmmm.. PAN~

Now that is a christmas list if I ever saw one... MORPH EXPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! um... sorry -Trav

wohoo!! okay... so who's tested it yet? (well, you know i would but i'm not at my machine right now.... if i crash my mom's computer, i'm in trouble! ;) )

I have a patch zip sitting on my desktop. PhilC posted last week, I think, about it and I picked it up immediately. I think the link disappeared though. Is this 'the patch'?? or should I get the other? Diane B

This one from Larry W. is a newer version of the Beta Patch.

This is a teriffic Holiday Gift, Thank you Larry. It makes me happy to know that even with MetaCreation jumping headfirst into a possible E-Commerce disaster, at least its creator still cares about Poser and its users. Since purchasing poser 1 1n 1996, I have bought every upgrade, in fact this year I purchased both version 3 and 4, as well as Bryce 4, Ray Dream Studio and Carrara. I dont think ridding themselves of products that sell is a wise course of action for MetaCreations, But it was extremely nice of Larry to post the Patch even when Meta would not Thanks again

Meta WILL host the final patch...after much testing.

okay so why do I get april fools when I try to get the patch? This is the link that comes up http://host-1.ghosteffects.com/poser/patch/patch.html id=2861&trans=-1&url=[http://aprilfools.infospace.com/Poser%20Patch%20WIN%204.0.2.111.zip Storm

I'm not getting that, try this one: http://host-1.ghosteffects.com/poser/patch/Poser%20Patch%20WIN%204.0.2.111.zip I keep Java and Javascript off as well. -JH.

So make a back-up of your Catsuit before loading the Patch ;-)

Why bother with a backup? There's no install program, and you have to put the patch files into the Poser directory tree by hand, so just don't copy the new catsuit.

There wasn't a catsuit fix in the zip I downloaded. Fixes for the Baby's and male's gens, and the rattler. New versions of the import/export plugins (hint if backing these up to a new folder you have to move the old versions out of the Poser folder completely, I moved them all the way out to the Program Files dir. If in a sub of the runtime Poser will find them and add double of everything in the import/export. Other than that, set up was a breeze. -Trav

The general suggestions for installing these sorts of patches is to install them on top of a clean Poser 4 install. I rename the old P4 directory and build a now one, Install poser 4, install the patch, then copy in the stuff I want. You can use xcopy, set to not overwrite existing files, to copy in your old work and models. Usually the patches work fine without doing this, but it can prevent nasty problems.

I wish all patches were like this. I know exactly what files were replaced and where. An yes I skipped a few because I've done tings with them and don't want them replaced. Super Thanks to Larry for supporting his application.