Quote - Are you sure you installed the right download file? It should be file ps_pe069_Victoria4 for V4 herself, and pe070 for Morphs++, if you have them. Sounds like it was the Victoria 4 Developer Kit you installed.

Hmmm well when I bought V4 I got a whole bundle all in one including the developers kit etc.
The downloads I got just now are

Victoria 4.0 Morphs++ (Mac)
Victoria 4.0 Morphs++ DS Poses (Mac)
Victoria 4 Developer Kit (MAC)

My V4 was somewhere in these files originally !!!

Looks like I gotta contact Daz for the missing file huh?

D xxx

OK... I made another run time and installed the downloads.. then added that runtime into Poser 7.  All ok.... except, there is no Victoria model just the developers thingies.  Guess I'm missing a download file somewhere?

Quote - Login to your DAZ account page (My Account), click on Itemized Order History, and reset your V4 items, then you can download them again (they will be V4.2 now). That should do it. 

Hey cool!

Got my downloads safe and sound.  Should I then un-install the old V4 or just install over the top of them?

Sorry... little bit blonde today

drky xxx

Well, I THOUGHT it was odd. Thanks guys.

Looking on Daz's site they havent got a download/update for V4?
I guess I'm missing something else huh?

drky xxx

Quote - Unchecking "Shadow Catch Only" shouldn't affect any model in the scene.  It certainly doesn't on my P6, at least.

Are the lights actually casting shadows?  That's a totally different option from the Cast Shadows you selected in Render Settings, btw.  It's on the light parameters.

Also, if it's a big scene, Depth Mapped shadows (which you really shouldn't be using anyhow) will often refuse to render correctly, if at all.

In preview the shadow is there... but render it and there it is 'gone'....
In light parameters doing anything with that shadow setting just sees it re-set to its 1.000 default, not allowing me to do anything with it.

The mystery deepens
Drky xxx

Quote - You probably need to uncheck the "shadow catch only" option for the ground plane in the material room (advanced view).

Hmmmmm nope... this just did completely weird things to V4..... I just know its gonna be something really simple that i should do or havent done,,,,,,, grrrrrrrr !!!!!  :)

Ahh yes.. I am going to try this because I have loads of this stuff to do so many thanks for your feedback.

Drky xxx

Quote - Not quite sure if it was relayed (skimmed this thread TBH) this way, but when you extract you object, try copying itonto a new layer - a 2 layer PSD with a background and "the object".

Open THIS in Illustrator and drag the top layer (the object) onto the other document in Illustrator - people seem very click-happy with copy/paste but literall just get your Move Tool (black arrow) and you can drag any elements from one doc to another - just drag the top layer over.

Hope this helps-
-Lew ;-)

"Laughing"... but guys it was Stephen Hawking that sent me to you, bcoz he din have a clue:)

Ok.. I got renders without blackholes by playing ith render settings as you suggested and just minutely altering pose and expressions slightly.  All a bit hit and miss but with some determination and patience, its paid off :)

Thanks for your help guys

Drky xxx

OK, an update to this.

The only way I could find to do it was to place the object with transparent background on my background in photoshop.  By doing that I could see that all of your above advice works.  And then bring that work complete with layers into Illustrator for more post-work.

Forgive me... but there MUST be away of bringing those files straight into illustrator.. there just has to be. A question for the Illustrator foorum I guess !!!

Anyways thanks for all your help :)

Drky xxx

LOL well I'm pleased you guys have sorted it out between yourselves. I'm still missing something. My GIF settings are Compuserve GIF right. But I can see any checkboxed transparency and or preserve axact colours.    Maybe my classroom in a book witl divulge the mysteries....

Ok.... I got it to look like your arrow, no problems.  I then copied and pasted into a new document. So I have the object plus background layer.  Do I just leave those layers, merge them, flatten whatever?    And you say i still have to crop the background out with <<select and <<color.

I tried cut and paste into ilustrator but still got the full rectangle with solid white background.

Its me I know I am not doing something I should be doing. I spend too much time in the creative zone and not enough on the technicalities.  Like I know what I want to do just trying to get it done evades me at times. :(

Steve

Duh!!!! yeah what am i like. Sorted and thanks

drky

oops!  No, i am just wondering if i am missing out on something by limiting myself to Poser7 renders.

D

Do i detect a looking down upon the Poser 7 render capabilities?

Do i detect a looking down upon the Poser 7 render capabilities?