Thanks so much for including my Little Hellion! Wonderful other Picks as well! Congrats to everyone! :biggrin:

Thanks so much! Congrats to all! Fabulous artwork! :)

Just to back dml2000, I have used Poser 8 for all of my recent images (dating back to Aug. 12...check my gallery for examples). I don't know how complicated you'd call my renders, as they generally only feature one, sometimes two, figures...then with clothes, hair, sometimes props and background sets (but a lot of the time I render over pre-made backgrounds). I render on high settings, 300 ppi, and generally above 2000 px on the short side (although on this older machine using P8, I haven't been able to get above 2000 px on the large side without a crash midway through rendering). I render for print quality as I want to sell my art.

Anyway, some scenes I can get away with a few (3-6) test renders (which are not set at high settings, are much smaller, and are only 72 ppi), and some scenes it crashes after every render...that's when it gets frustrating. Since I consider myself an artist and I use Poser to create art that I want to sell, this memory issue is a problem. Once I get my newer system back, I'm hoping I won't have so many memory issues...but I'm not holding my breath. Crossing my fingers SR1 fixes these issues.

Quote - Complex renders with more than 2 DAZ series 4 characters will render a single time and then P-8 says it has run **out of memory.
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The Smith Micro people have stated they have tried to match a complex PZ-3 scene in pre render mode totaling some 416MB by using some cinema CD images a high poly vehicle and three casual Alyson and Ryans totalling 1.5 MB in size  to my **3 Fully colothed DAZ meshes ** with all the ++ morphs and skin textures totaling some **218 MB.
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They say they have no memory issue suing a Pentium dual core CPU with Xp pro and 1 GB ram..

Well, gee, I surely hope they fix the memory leak (but if they don't see one, that's a bit worrisome). Some scenes I can render a few times before I get the out of memory error and a crash. But others, particularly ones in which I'm using an Aery Soul hair (which are extremely high poly as stated on the product pages), then I get the memory error and a crash after every render. Which really sucks and becomes quite time consuming when doing a dozen test renders.

So I do hope they are doing something to fix all these memory errors that many people are getting.

Quote - I'd probably be relatively happy if I didn't keep adding content, as I crash pretty much every time I do a library refresh. Or use the morph brush, for that matter. I've kinda taken up the workflow of scene setup in Poser Pro and rendering in P8 until SR1 is released.

Yep, every time I refresh the library, Poser crashes. I've learned to just install content with Poser closed, then I don't have to worry about refreshing.

I'm pretty happy with P8. I'd be even happier if the crashes were fixed (but I am on an older system for now, so maybe that has something to do with all the crashes I do get). I love the faster render times which is why I keep using it in spite of the crashes.

Quote - I have the same problem. You don't need to go into the material room, at least not if your posing window is undocked. Just tug on the side of the window like you're going to expand it, and the inner scene will pop back into place.

Ah...didn't think just to tug on the window (yeah, it's undocked). Thanks for the tip.

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3) And the major issue for me is that the document window doesn't display properly. This was fixed in an earlier build, but for some reason, it's not working for me in the "final" build with a "hotfix" applied. Whenever I open a new scene, the scene is displayed in the lower-right corner of the document window.
Now, granted, my video card is a Radeon 9200, which may be out dated, but P7 and Poser Pro both worked fine and this issue was fixed in an earlier build of P8, only to be "broken" in the final release.

However, this may be one of times when I'm the only person having this issue. So, this may or may not be an issue for other people. But, if you have an older computer, be aware that existing scene files may not display correctly.

I reported this to the Poser 8 techs, so they know about this issue.

Haven't read any further, but I am also having this problem. In fact, I've been reading the forums to see if anyone else has been having the same issues (also having memory errors which I posted about in another thread).

I'm also using an older system (until my newer one is up and running again with a new power supply) with a Radon 9200 video card. I tried to update the driver and ended up screwing up my computer...my hubby had to make it all better...lol. He found no other more current driver than the one we already have. I haven't tried P7, but I've never had a problem running P6.

I have found that by going into the material room and going back to the pose room fixes the problem...but it would be nice to have a permanent fix for this.

I've been using Poser 8 for about 4 days now and I'm also getting the memory error. Most times I can't save...I click ok on the error box and a few seconds later Poser crashes. This is happening on subsequent rendering (ie: the 1st render is fine, but by the 2nd or 3rd, I get the error message). Needless to say, I've been saving my scenes before every render.

Also, after the 1st or 2nd render, the library starts to stall. When I navigate to a runtime folder and open it, many of the content folders fail to populate (the question mark never changes to the number of files, so I can't get to the content). The only way I've seen to fix this is to close Poser out completly and re-open.

Now, I am on an older system with Win XP Home and with little harddrive space (until my newer computer gets fixed)...however, I've used Poser 6 on this system for over 3 years and have never had this problem.

Poser 8 renders a heck of a lot faster than Poser 6, though, so I'll keep using it. But it would be nice if it didn't crash from memory issues all the time. ;)

Here's the link to the image I did. :) Love this purse!
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1871471

Oh wow...thanks for choosing my little elf gal! It's an honor to be placed among such fine images. :)

Quote - man!  I was all set to do a render of "miss thing" for $20, but I see ravyn has already posted the prize-winning entry!

Quote - For what it's worth, I think RavynGyrl's second image is a winner! It's very VERY nice!

Awww, thank you both! :D But don't let my meager offerings stop you from posting a render. :)

Thanks Stacey, for stepping up and posting here...and thanks for the great news!