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I noticed that. I made sure I picked the one for V3. I'm lost in cooler's site right now looking for his free cigars, but I'll check it all out again and see what happens.

Ok, thanks. I'll try that. I'm using DNA's Beach Baby texture, would that affect things?

Hmmm, thought I made a post... guess I hit preview by mistake. Cooler, do you have a link to those cigars? I've looked through dozens of pages and while I've found some great freebies!!!!! I haven't been able to find that particular item.

Quote - But in addition to that, make sure that "Auto Balance" and "Use Limits" are set so that you don't twist everything way beyond what they are supposed to look like.

Hmmm, maybe that's part of my problem too. My poses look like contortionists, LOL Where do you find those options?

That makes sense :)

Can this post be made sticky at the top of the forum if possible? They are really good tutorials, and very much sought after judging from the turnout in each tutorial thread. Many of us weren't here from the beginning and are just learning, and these tutorials are a wonderful resource. Dr. Geep, have you thought of taking all those tutorials and putting them into book form? I think it would be an instant best seller in the poser community, because there aren't many books out there for Poser, especially ones that are for new users, which your tutorials are geared towards. I know I'd buy it :)

Thank you :)

If they will reset it for you, why do they bother limiting it to begin with? Seems like limiting the downloads and then having the customer request a reset and the staff resetting it, is a make work project for everyone all around. I've had the same problem where I know I've downloaded the file but due to browser issues or some mystical twilight zone phenomena, the file is no where to be found. I've got a few files sitting in my purchase history that don't have download buttons next to them now because of that.

Quote - Boy I'm terribly confused here. I've never heard of a head floating on the Poser screen when you load Poser. What's all this about harmonic files and canoes?! Usually when you use Poser you do not "import" stuff. You load it from the Libraries. The best thing for you is to take one step, or item at a time. You can start by "translating" for us.

I find that terribly rube. It's obvious that English isn't the slyly's first language. slyly is working with a German Version of Poser, and an English manual. The head could be the result of having the figure in face view and having set the preferences to load that way. Or perhaps they are in the face room, or hair room, where it only shows a head; having arrived there the same way...set preferences. slyly downloaded files from here and installed them into the proper directories, but doesn't know where in Poser to look for them in order to use the items installed. As for them using the word "imported", I believe slyly was referring to opening a file or adding items to the scene from the library. I think if you had been the one to step back and taken some time, you would have seen what slyly was asking. I don't have Poser open and I can't recall which menu the preferences are found under, but maybe someone can explain to slyly how to get the program back to factory state and see if that helps her/him out at all.

I'm doing it the easy way. Rather than rifle through folders and try and figure out what files belong to what item, I just deleted the runtimes that I wanted to redo and start with a clean slate. That way I can take time to pick and choose what I want to add or keep out. I take the time to install/unzip one file, then go to the library/character, and library/pose folders and further organize them there, before moving onto the next file. It's slow going, but at least I know that I'll be able to find the readme's and MAT files that go with the clothing item from the character folder, because I've named them the same and have grouped all of the MATS for an item in a common folder for that item in the Poses folder IE: all my MATS for MFD are located in the MFD folder (one stop shopping when working with MFD) I'm not comfortable separating all textures to it's own folder/runtime yet. I'll see how what I'm doing goes, and maybe the next time I have to redo my runtimes, I'll try something a bit different to further organize the files. But for now I'll either do the common multiple character files runtime, or install the item into each figure's runtime. I don't have a lot of hard drive space to work with, so duplicate files are a concern to me, however, I will be storing my unused runtimes on a CD and swapping them back and forth from CD to hard drive as I need them. I'll keep hair, poses, faeries and lighting as constants on my main hard drive, and swap out the figure ones as I need them.

Get a TON of memory! It will make working in Poser much smoother.

A few weeks ago I reformatted my computer and completely re-installed my poser runtime; this time into multiple runtimes. I had one for V3, SP3, M3, hair, lighting and poses. About a week ago, I installed something into the V3 runtime, and saw that it was for SP3 too. At that point I dumped my SP3 runtime into my V3 one, making one runtime, and did the same with my Hair runtime making one runtime for V3/SP3/Hair. That same day I consolidated my Poses and Lighting runtimes into one because right after posing, I add lighting. Yesterday I installed something and saw that it worked not only for V3 and SP3, but for The Girl too. Argggg! Today I decided to separate them again. This time my strategy is: V3 character addons V3 clothing S3P character addons S3P clothing Multi-figure items Hair Poses Lighting I'm a creature of habit and find it difficult to adjust to drastic change in organization and eventually gravitate back to older, if not as effectual methods out of habit. One thing I can say about having redone my runtimes so many times trying to find just the right way for me, is that I weed out things that to me now see 'so-so' and are rarely used. Plus I'm getting better with my organization too :) I've made sure I have taken the time to rename the blasted "readme" files to the same as it's corresponding item, and have included the artist name on it as well as the folders in both the Character and Poses folder. My only concern is the "multi-figure items runtime". I'm not sure how I'm going to keep track of what's in it exactly. I somehow think that it will just fall to the wayside and the contents ignored. I only wish I could organize the Textures and Geometries folders instead of having them as massive dumping grounds, but I was told to not move things around or rename things in them otherwise Poser loses track of them. I'm hoping that by separating the clothing from the character addons, that the runtimes will be more managable. I have another question. You said you have your hair runtime at the top of your runtime list in Poser. How do you do that? I've tried changing the order of things and can't. I find the order is in the way I initially added them. Is there a way to change the order of them after they have been added or do I have to delete them and readd them again in the order that I want?

Thank you :) I just downloaded it.