So there I was using a high res skin file for mike, when everytime I tried to render it poser would freeze up. I figured the skin texture was just too big. So I took it into paint shop pro and reduced the skin textures to the same size as the other textures I've used and were able to render, and then stuck them back on my mike model. Did it work? Noooooooooo... I couldn't figure out the problem at all. Why was one skin file freezing up poser when another one (that was the same size) didn't? Apparently, it all had to do with the dpi (dots per inch) of the texture file (not the dpi in the rendering options). I noticed when looking at the image information of the high res mike skin files in Paint Shop Pro that the dpi was 300, whereas my other skin files was 72. That being the only difference I could see between the two skin files, I had to create a new image that was the same size as the 300dpi image, but make the new image 72 dpi, then copy and paste the hi res skin file to the new lower dpi image and resave it, reload it. Then miraculously... everything worked fine. I thought it was very odd that the dpi value of a texture file mattered to the rendering of that file, but apparently it was. Anyone else have this prob?

What happens if you create a new file at 300dpi and paste the original into that? Maybe the supplied jpg was marginally corrupt or formatted in a way Poser didn't like.

Not sure, but have lost too much hair trying to figure out what would work anyways, lol. I suppose it is possible that the original jpg was corrupted or formatted weirdly, but it didn't look like it was. My guess is that my puter still wouldn't be able to handle a 300 dpi skin file, but that's just a guess. Good thinking though, I'll have to experiment when I get the time too.

so thats why I've been having problems- good job :) and thanks for sharing

Cant imagine that this was the real problem. dpi is a unit like mph - Its still 100 miles wether you go with 50 mph or 100 mph... I would guesss to that is just some kind of strange jpeg compression (different subsampling) which poser doesnt understand...