Aeneas, Have you checked your mouse driver? Logitech mouse did have an incompatibility which would trap you in Hierarchy Window if you dragged an entry at all, even accidently. CL reproduced but never fixed the problem, later drivers from Logitech fixed the problem. (MouseWare 9.4 had the problem under W2K and XP, it was fixed by version 9.7.)

It's still a Mac app! On both platforms.

E.g. The "Windows" dialogs, as FishNose states "Extremely primitive "Open" window - Win98 style. Or even Win95." (Win 3.1?)

E.g. No normal Windows click function - look closely and you'll see it is all done by hotspots on the screen, which is why a mouse click on a button (image) won't take sometimes if you click near the edge of the button (image).

E.g. Delayed cursor changes. All Windoze apps suffer from a coursor icon change delay to some extent, maybe 0.5 to 1 sec, but on Poser it can be - and often is - 20 secs or more with absolutely no indication that your click took.

I suspect that Windows versions of Poser are still built on a MacOS platform. Certainly the code used to emulate/simulate/interface with Windows API calls is still that used for Poser 1 or 2 (whichever was the original port to Windows). This means that all later - read current - aspects of Windows are unavailable. Better file dialogs, dual monitor support, ability to cohabit with other apps, etc, etc, etc.

All the other items listed by others are important, but until and unless this applciation is natively compiled for its target operating system, all bets of a stable application are off. It will remain an ill-behaved applciation by definition. And sloooooow.

And to add an item missed so far - context sensitive confirmation dialogs, e.g. "Do you want to delete Figure 1? Yes/No" instead of "Do you want to delete the CURRENT figure? Yes/No". Oh, and yes. I'd like the above as a FREE update please, at least for the initial punters who were sold P5, for the reasons given by Jackson above. Thanks.

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Own P4, PP, P5. Use only PP (unless running a beta).

I've emailed, but not heard back yet. Newherve was over at PoserPros posting on Netherworks thread on Migal's Stephanie Max in Free Stuff but a week ago. Perhaps you can PM Newherve there?

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It's not crosstalk, but symptoms are similar. The Injection is achieved by using readscript(0, which has a prediliction for always applying itself to teh first figure loaded in a scene - most probably because readscript was added to Poser before multiple figures were, and prior-rev fixes are rare in Poser history. There is a way around it - see link - but it has disadvantages, like if you want to use clothing. Further developmeents have been discussed over at PoserPros, Jim Burton has developed teh technique to permit clothing. No apparant downsides, beyond a large amount of file editing, that is :-OIt's not crosstalk, but symptoms are similar. The Injection is achieved by using readscript(0, which has a predilection for always applying itself to the first figure loaded in a scene - most probably because readscript was added to Poser before multiple figures were, and prior-rev fixes are rare in Poser history. There is a way around it - see link - but it has disadvantages, like if you want to use clothing. Further developments have been discussed over at PoserPros, Jim Burton has developed the technique to permit clothing. No apparent downside, beyond a large amount of file editing, that is :-O Steph Max is built per FII and Jim B's extension.

First of all, check the color temperature of your monitor. Almost all (but the most expensive intended-for-professional-graphics-work) monitors ship with a color temp of 9300K. This is becuase it looks good in a typical overlit, fluorescent-lit retail store. If you drop your color temp to a more correct/appropriate/calibrated/typical daylight 6500K, you'll have the "dark" problem relative to everyone else. But just 'cos everyone else has succumbed to monitor vendors' Marketing Dept., doesn't make it right ;-) Same effect can be seen with TVs. The typical settings out-of-the-box is way to bright for a low-light residential setting. A useful by-product of this 6500K setting on a CRT is longer useful life of the phosphor :-) Also remember too that Macs and PCs have different gammas, so anything created on a Mac is going to look dark on a PC even if the color temps are the same and even if they are similarly calibrated. Lots of viewer apps will let you change the gamma for a given picture.

"I also think M2 would have made a good unimesh." Just look what Migal did with Stephanie Max! And if he'd just had some more vertices to play with in the breast and hip area...

" I still can't figure out why people think a mesh has a gender. shrug bonni" Look at the mesh as a wireframe: If it has density in the breast area (e.g. any Vickie) there is scope for large perturbations in this area without the mesh appearing as "squared off" points in the curved parts, if there is little density there the jaggies will appear. Check the underside of the breast area on Steph 1 compared to Vicky 1/2 at large breast sizes. Muscle structure, again compare the mesh of Mike 2 (or Steph 1) with Vicky 1/2. There is extra density - and thus more scope for smooth morphs - in all the major muscle areas. The mesh "follows" the underlying human muscle structure with complementary mesh density. So, no mesh doesn't have gender, but it can be developed to support one gender over the other, with less work/overexploitation of the mesh to achieve the desired effect. And lest someone reads this post to mean that a unimesh can't be done, I'm not saying that. Extra mesh density doesn't do a great deal of harm - within reason if it is under used in say the breast or hip area, so it seems entirely possible to create a true "unimesh" that supports male and female representations equally, i.e. is a superset of needed higher mesh density areas. The issue with Daz's approach that has lead to this "genderization" discussion is that Daz did not set out to design a unimesh, instead they extended their V3Male morphs into M3, (subsequently) renaming V3 a "unimesh". Had they repeated their V2 to V3 mesh subdivision process on M2 to make M3, then included the higher mesh density from V3 in the breast area, they would have had something they could justify as a unimesh. (They could also have usefully added some mesh density in the hip area too, but that stays into a different issue ;-)

There is something odd about .png files in Camera folders - they don't support transpancy (whether created by poser or by a 3rd party app), probably as a result of the forced viewfinder graphic addition that EnglishBob mentioned. That's why the Daz Bump graphics look all weird if you move V3, M3, etc. pose files to a Camera folder. So the 2 fixes are as mentioned, PDO or do it the pose folder before the transfer.

Click "Add new profile", to right of Repair profiles panel. Tip: Select the nearest profile first, and the initial settings will come up checked already for you.

"... but you must already own the Stephanie geometry to use them." True, but remember that Daz has a sale on at the moment (ends tomorrow?). Steph 1 is less than $20, less still if you are PC member. An incredible deal for a model of this calibre (Migal's S Max, not Steph 1), as the sum total is still < $20. And this model is truly unique, all new-from-the-ground-up morphs from Migal, not just rehashes of prior Daz morphs, so there is no Vicky- or Steph-look to the model. The texture alone would cost > $20 from Daz..., not to mention the JCM, gravity effects, huge list of MATs, etc., etc.

"I also wish it would remember the last repair profile you used. I'm always accidently running the P4 profile on P5, since that's the default." randym77, Create a new custom profile, and give it a name starting with a letter before "S", say "Preferred ...". It'll then default to that, as it defaults to the first one in the list, not the P4 per se.

P4 ProPack - bought after I bought P5 :-(

kuroyume0161, P5 Sr4.1 is the first and only SR that made P5 work fast enough for the product to be really usuable on my system - but by then I'd about lost interest. SR4.0 was the slowest of the entire set (of 12 if you count the original release as SR0).

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See Poser Pros, under Poser 5, amoung the stickies near the top for the P5 tricks referred to above.

Howard, Today's the day, eh? Congrats to your both. And watch out for those wind gusts. Gotta keep your hemline down ;-) But hopefully you've got a big sporran :-O All the best, mate! rgds, lb