Ok, a few days ago I went and pulled down what are arguably the BEST free hair sets on the web from DigitalBabes. This is what I got on trying to load the folling file sets onto a model "The file being read is not a valid poser file" For both P4 and The V's models Alice hair PTail ReiHair ShortHair Wave hair Chignon Hair has any one else had these problems or does anyone know of the fix? OH and one other thing howcome when I load hair it isn't visable till it's rendered? It's just this mass of light grey dots. THATS probably a simple answer but cut me some slack as I actually am getting good working with Bryce! (30 straight hours of practice!) Thanks Crash

One other thing. My characters are rendering with out Eyelashes? Did I miss something somewhere? Thanks Crash

The easiest first: Yes they only show up when rendered.The dots show up if you use transparent things or things that use transmaps( hair,eyelashes) I didnt have any problems with loading.Makke shure that the *.hr2 and the rsr-file are in one of the hairlibraries.

Crash, There are many things which use transparency maps. Hair is the most common, but if you put a dagged edge on a cloak or cut out a series of holes in a catsuit or put lace on some underwear, your model will be dressed in dots until rendered. You can alleviate this effect by displaying things in another mode such as "cartoon shaded" if it bothers you. I prefer the dots, because the display mode affects everything displayed. The other point raised above is that file types have to be in the correct library to be used by Poser. hr2 files are hair, cr2 files are character, pp2 files are props, etc.. Somewhere in this forum is a list of the extensions and where they go. Most good modelers will include a readme file which will say where to put the others if they are not automatically installed. We Mac users get by pretty easily since Maconverter and Macinstaller do most of that for us. But sometimes things will go wrong with installers (I just hit a snag with the DAZ installer), and then we do need to know where to put stuff so that Poser can find it. Carolly

I got the alice hair last night. works perfect. you need to read koz readme files when you install his stuff. some of it requires the use of objaction mover or uvmapper before you can utilize it.

Figures will be rendered eyelash-free if you set the object -in this case the characters eyelashes- as being transparent without asigning them a transmap.

make sure that the files aren't in a subdirectory of the directory they are in. Libraries/Hair/folder not libraries/hair/folder/folder that can cause the not a valid poser file error.

I had the same thing happen to me on the new har Koz made...it was my mistake by not reading the readme file...I ws too excited to have new hair he made... !!!!!README FILES!!!! helps to read them...