I'm experiencing three problems that perhaps someone can help me with: Attached is a picture showing two of the three issues. #1: I purchased Victoria's dress pack this weekend, along with the Cocktail II dress set. Only thing is, as you can tell from the images, none of the dresses show up as images in their respective boxes. If I select a dress, it will show up, but it would be nice to see what I'm picking. Why might this be happening? (And can I fix it?) #2: I also managed to get a few of the Millenium Kids stuff including DAZ hair for the little brats. Again, I let the DAZ thing do its install, only this time, I get the pics, but then I get these two messages. When I do a search for these files, they're not there! Again, I ask the age old question, why? #3 (Finally)...I also purchased Anton's Ponytail stuff (I think there were three separate packs of things) and I really like them, they look good, etc.,etc. But, I notice that after I get the hair on a model, when I move her, well, her hair stays behind. If, before I move her, I select "Conform to..." (Figure 1 usually), her hair drops to her navel. Anyway, short of crazy glue on the screen, how can I keep Anton's hair on Vicki's head? Running Win 2K / Poser 4.03 / PPP 512MB RAM Thanks! David

After re-reading my post, I may not have clarified the situation well enough. The selection boxes for the dresses show up as indicated in the image above, and although you cannot see the dresses in those boxes, if I select an item, it will load the dress onto the workspace. I seemed to imply that when I clicked on the box the image then appeared, that is not the case. Sorry if this confused anyone. NOW, having said that, Cookie, would your solution still apply in (re)creating the smaller dress images? David

well for prob three, get the hair on the head the way you like it, then go: window>hierarchy editor>grab the hair and drag to the head in the editor, this will keepo the hair parented to the head I don't know abotu resaving the hair if that will work, you could try and call it test or something different than the orig hair.

#2 problem really watch the path it installs to. don't just accept the defaults. My path to Poser is H:3dposer4 the installer wanted to put it to c:programscurious labsposer4 yours may be c:programsmetacreationsposer4 anyway make sure it finds the right path to poser.exe

djthomas, #1 I have the first cocktail dress set. Since the dress is set to transparent, it will not show up on the thumbnail. Set the trans values for the dress to 0 before you save it, and something should show up on the thumbnail. #2 Do you have the WedgeCut hair for Michael? DAZ provided hz2 files to size their hair models to the Mil Girls. The file will not work unless you have the hair file. #3 Anton put instructions in the readme on parenting the hair. The readme should be in the Poser 4Readme's directory. Select the Body of the hair then choose Figure>Set Figure Parent. Set the parent to the model's head. The hair is not a conforming figure. Hope this helps!

#1-I always unpack Daz or any other stuff in a "tempo" dir. Then i manually move them over to their appropriate places in my Runtime Dir... It's the safest way! And i can see right away if everything unpacked correctly! Cause, your brower can sometimes corrupt your downloads... #2- As an added bonus for your library thumbs: Do a quick render* of the item you want to save(ex.: Cocktail Dress), Save the Pic, then load it as the Background image. Now, switch to a camera that doesn't show your item or simply pan the camera 'till you only see the background, then save your item to your library! Now you have a much better thumb to look at!! This as another advantage, you get to see the "transparent" items like hair & clothes too in your thumbs!! :-) #3- After a few shots i realized that even though Anton's hair is a figure, you should not Conform it!! But, instead parent it to the head!! All you need to do is make a pose file that will save the "parenting info"... *Turn off Shadows & BumMaps! Cause you won't see the difference anyway in the thumbs... Marco

Problem #1: Another way to get your pictures to show up is to render the garment (on or off a body-your choice) in another window with dimensions 100 pixels x 100 pixels and save as a .png file. The name of the .png will have to be EXACTLY the same as the pose file. You need to save the .png to the same file as your MAT pose file. (i.e., Program Files/Curious Labs/Poser4/Libraries/pose/"name here". Overwrite the .png file, if any, which already exists under that name. I hope this helps.