Hi,

I'm a new PoserPro2010 user, just installed it yesterday and I happened to catch this post. I also have an ATI Radeon card, it's a Sapphire HD 3850 with 512 RAM.  I just checked and although I only got this card a year ago, my driver version is severely outdated (probably the original one that came on the disc in the box) , My card's driver is version 8.5 as far as I can tell!I've also been having Poser run very sluggish, as well as a couple of crashes. 

I'm not very technical with the pc stuff so I was wondering if I installed the 10.3 fix if it would be ok, considering I'm jumping so many versions from what I have now?  I'm running WinXP SP3, so I was told I have to uninstall the old driver before installing the Catalyst 10.3 and I don't really know how to do that, can anyone shed some light who is familiar with this? Maybe a quick step by step if possible...Thanks, very much appreciated!

Tried the procedure, and all went well until I got to injecting the morphs. Strange....two things I noticed comparing what's on my screen to your screenshots.....Next to my file !V3 All Morphs Inj, I have a number (1), you have (14), therefore after I double-clicked to inject all morphs, my dials also don't look as yours do, I don't have Muscular 1, Muscular 2, etc....(see pic attached) .
 
One other thing is that I don't have the thumbnails in a window to the right of my files, the thumbnails come up right inside the file that I open, and instead of a picture it says "No Preview", it does that with all the folders, not just V3. I was wondering why it's like that.  (See posted screenshot below)

As far as my video driver, I've been checking to see if there's an update but all I could find was a hotfix, and I'm not even sure what version my vid driver is. I have an ATI Radeon Sapphire AGP 512MB, which comes with the Catalyst Control Center. When I look for the listing in the control center there are two version numbers, I believe one is for the Control Center itself, the other is the driver version, but it's a 50/50 shot which is which. Sapphire support is not helping matters, I get three word answers basically telling me to go to the website and find it myself, nice huh? Will work on getting that straightened out, maybe that will help. I know my windows is current, and I'm using IE 7, so should be all set there. I asked tech support if there was an update, or "fix" for PoserPro2010, but he said the only one has something to do with 3Ds max compatability, which I don't have anyway.  Do you know of any updates to PP2010?

Thanks hborre, extremely good of you to take the time to post all the pics, much appreciated!

Today I will unfortunately out and away from my pc until tonight, so I'll give it a go then and let you know how things go. Seems relatively simple now that you've posted the steps. I did load V3 into the workspace already yesterday, and I saw some dials over on the right side but don't remember accessing/opening the Properties panel from the dropdown menu, as there were already some dials on the right, just  didn't see any of the extra dials. Gonna try your step by step and I'm sure I'll get it right. btw, do you use PoserPro2010 or a different version?

I was having problems with PoserPro2010 loading and running very slowly yesterday, even crashed a couple of times, but has not happened since. I'm exploring whether I need to update my video card's drivers, could possibly be the culprit, although my other programs seem fine, so I'm wondering if there are some settings in poser that might be draining video resources.

I would never have known about the M4 installer looking for poser.exe, thanks I'll give that a try and see if I can get it installed. So from what I understand, unlike V3, M4 and V4 don't come with any morphs at all included, and I have to purchase their respective morph packs, correct?

Quote - The expression inj will not physically change anything on it's own.  You did nothing wrong.  It will create additional dials in the model's properties.  If you have a problem conceptializing the set up, let me know and I will screencap what to look for.

That would be great, thanks, no hurry though, as I've got a boatload of info to weed through anyhow, but it would be nice to see how that setup all works. Much appreciate your taking the time to help out.

Ok, thanks hborre, I haven't moved anything, so I guess everything is in the correct place then.  The Daz install instructions said if you have poserpro to choose the Daz target, then choose Poser install path (as follows below), so that's what I did:

If you are using Poser 7 Pro, you must choose 'DAZ Studio' as the target path and then manually indicate the installation path (c:/Program Files/SmithMicro/Poser 7 Pro).  Make sure the Poser 7 folder is the last part of the path.  If a different folder is used, like 'runtime' or 'downloads,' the installation will not work properly.

Now I did try installing Michael 4, but got an error message early on in the process so I aborted and left it alone for now.

As for the Expressions Inj, they didn't seem to change anything when I loaded them, but I'm early on in the process here so maybe I'm doing something wrong. So the difference in the poses in the Expression folder compared to the Exp Inj is because they are setup for  individual facial features as opposed to controlling the face expression overall?

Believe me, after much reading today I've had many questions, just didn't want to crash the forum's server! lol

I'm going to have to pick my battles and figure out which video tutorials to watch first to get familiar with things, I'm also reading the manual. Thanks very much for the info, I'll leave all the files where they are for now, I was just looking at Acadia's post about setting up and organizing files, but decided to hold off since I didn't quite understand the method completely.

First day on the job here, just installed Poser Pro 2010, can anyone please lend a hand? 
Poser install seemed to go smoothly, but I have now loaded V3 and running into some confusion, have a few questions. Before I go ahead and load V4, M4, M3, etc...and the rest I want to make sure I know what to do.....  

1. When I’m in Poser in the pose room and in the Figures library, under !Daz People, why is there a V3 Blank SAE, Vicki 3 to Vicki2 SAE, and a Victoria 3 SAE??

(I thought I only loaded one, Victoria 3?)

I don’t know what is supposed to be included with V3 Base, so I’m not sure whether I installed everything ok….. 

1. From what I can see I have “All Morphs Inj”, “Expressions Inj”, “Full Body Inj”, and “Glute-Hip-Abs Inj” Seems I’m missing the Head Eyes, Ear-Nose, Chest-Breast, Muscularity, and quite a few others, according to Daz’s documentation. Did I read Acadia’s post correctly, that V3 Base does include a few morphs, but I have to purchase the full morph package from Daz to get the rest of them? 

1. Why are the “Expressions Inj” in the Pose folder instead of the Expressions folder, and since these are morphs, is it ok to move them or not?? (According to Acadia’s post above, I shouldn’t be moving morph files, but they don’t seem to function from where they are now)

1. In the Pose Library I have a folder !MAT V3, which has items like, Arm Gloves, Arm Gloves off, Stockings, Wet suit, etc…..obviously clothes, are they ok where they are, or should they be moved to another folder somewhere?  

5)There is nothing in the hair library for V3 at all, so I assume that is extra stuff that is not included?

Just installed the program today, so I’m only guessing here that maybe the Daz V3 installer dumped everything into the “Pose” library or folder and I have to figure out how to separate it all and move to the right folder??

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

I have the Daz models downloaded, and they're in a folder on my external HD. Anyone have a quick step by step on how to open and install those to the proper poser folders, or does the exe file automatically send them to the right folders?  There are four exe files for M4, ....dpcM4 base, dsM4base, also a "power loader" and "presets" .....probably a simple procedure, but I'm just a bit confused as to how to load all four. (V4 also has three exe files)

V3 & M3 each have only one exe file.  Thanks, much appreciatet the help!

Markschum, good to know my PC's not going to choke up! From what I've heard, some of these models carry a high poly count, and adding animation puts more of a toll on the cpu usage. 

Thanks for the info Nanette, that's cool that V3 reduced res doesn't need a separate morph pack,  I assume that means all the same (or similar) morphs that V4 uses are included in the V3 reduced res base model, right?

Hopefully gonna be installing the program tomorrow. From what I've read it seems important to install these Daz models correctly, so that everything goes into the correct folders. I've got "power loaders" , "presets", all kinds of good stuff! :-) We'll see how it goes!  Much appreciate the replies.  

I appreciate everyone taking time to help with all this startup stuff. Seems the file system is important to learn, and things need to be installed in all the right places. Creating unique characters sounds like alot of fun once everything is finally in place. I've been learning a small bit of modeling using Truespace the past few months. I've not gotten around to attempting to model a character from scratch yet, but I've heard it is one of the more difficult things to model. 
I can pop out a music track pretty quickly, but learning 3D modeling is a whole different ball game! I'm hoping I'll be able to apply some of what I learned from the TS program over to Poser.  I know it's gonna be a slow learning process, but great to know there are experienced users here who are willing to help make it go smoother. Thanks again.

Thanks WandW, much appreciate the link & advice. :-)

I'm sure I have much to learn, gotta start somewhere!

Hi all,

Welcome peaceful_kaos & Bailliere, thanks for starting this thread, I've already learned a few things!  I'm also a new user, as new as new can be in fact, :-)  I'm still waiting for PoserPro2010 to arrive in the mail ! (any day now)  I'm a music composer/musician and write/record music for film and animation here in my home studio. Been trying to learn 3D modeling and animation for just under a year now, and a tough one at that, not as easy as I thought it would be! :-)  Our animation team has a website, will read the forum rules and see if I can post it here sometime soon.  Seems like a helpful community here, I like the atmosphere so far, nice. 

I was reading this thread and had a couple of questions. I've downloaded V4.2 and M4 but not sure what the other files were for. For M4 there was M4 Base, DS Materials, M4 Presets, and (power loader, but said only for Daz Studio so I didn't download that one).  For V4.2 there was V4.2 Base, V4.2 Poses, V4.2 Power Loader.  Since I don't have my Pro2010 package installed yet I have only a basic idea what these files are for and what to do with them. Right now they're just sitting in folders on hold until I install PP2010.  Can anyone briefly explain?

Also, what is the Morph++Packs mentioned above, and what is their purpose/function?

Thanks, much appreciated!

Musikman

I'm a soon to be Poser user, (shipment enroute) so technically I can't help you at the moment, but this link is to Talk Designer Assistant plugin which might interest you.  On the same page there are also a couple of short video tutorials that might help as well.  I received the ad for it from CP.

http://www.contentparadise.com/productdetails.aspx?id=12805

HTH

Musikman