OK. I manually put DSON support in the Scripts Menu in the Runtime in Programs/Smith Micro/Poser 11 and it now appears in the scripts menu when I open Poser.

I installed the Runtime under My Daz3d Library using the plus button. As I mentioned, I installed the DSON importer using DAZ Install Manager. Nothing showed up in the scripts menu in Poser. In the DAZ install manager folder, 'C:UsersPublicDocumentsDAZ 3DInstallManagerDownloadsIM00014897-02_DSONImporterforPoserWin64bitPoser_Pro 2014;Pro 2012_(64-Bit)' appeared. There were two subfolders; a Python folder and a Geometry folder. I manually placed these two folders in the runtime for downloads. Nothing still shows up in the scripts menu on Poser. However, in Poser, DSON ran when I added a Genesis character to the scene. I thought that they loaded fairly quickly. So, I have the Genesis characters in my library and DSON is activated when I load one of them. However, there is still nothing in the Scripts menu. I couldn't find a discussion of the @willdial's free utility on this forum. Nothing came up when I searched for it. I will continue to look. Thanks for your help.

I found that there was a quantum difference between Poser 10 and Poser 11 when it came to using Genesis and the DSON Importer. I really feel like working with the Genesis figures when they will behave. I appreciate you mentioning Will Dial. I will ask him about using Genesis in Poser 10. I look at the animations that others have done in the past few years and I feel like I am being left behind in terms of the realism. However, I also find Poser so enormously time-consuming that I question whether it is worth pursuing as a hobby. Am I the only one who finds it impossible to use the Poser 11.2 Pro upgrade? I feel the demands that it is putting on my computer are unreal, but maybe I'm missing something. OK, I've vented enough. Thanks for your input.

Yes. I am aware that Genesis isn't 100% compatible with any version of Poser. What is the hypothesis that you are pursuing here? I toyed with Genesis 2 figures in Poser 10, but I didn't get seriously involved until I got Poser 11 Pro. It sounds like you are suggesting that there are no serious issues using Genesis in Poser 10. If that is your point, and I can't effectively use Poser 11 Pro now with the update, and I don't decide to switch to a different animation program, I will explore that further.

I found that Genesis slowed down Poser 10 considerably and wasn't 100% compatible. I did use it to a limited extent, but it seemed like there were a lot of issues with it.

I appreciate your messages, Nails60. You really make a conscientious effort to address these concerns. That being said, I have Poser 11 Pro and it was working fine until I installed the upgrade. Now, the animation palette takes forever to refresh every time I edit something. I couldn't figure out anyway to address this, so I had to abandon Poser 11 altogether and revert to Poser 10. There is a tension between the demands of these upgrades and the ability of computers to meet them. I think that they should make it possible to edit the functions provided to accommodate computers that can't handle the full program.

I appreciate your reply. Since I can't use Poser 11, I am confined to Poser 10 and Genesis doesn't work very well in Poser 10. Poser 11.2 Pro installed fine, but the problems arose when I tried to work on an existing project and ran into problems with the animation palette.

It seems like as the programs advance, there is going to be tension between the demands of the program and the strength of the computer. I think they can address this by allowing the user to disable functions that slow down the computer and aren't really necessary to what the user is doing.

I had Poser 11 Pro and everything was working fine. I installed the update and it became virtually impossible to use the animation palette. There was all sorts of new numerical data and every time I changed something in the palette, the palette would have to refresh and it would take forever. Since I could not return to my original Poser 11 Pro, I had to go back to Poser 10. As a result, I lost all the Genesis figures that I had started to use in the original Poser 11 Pro. I have asked if there is some way to disable some of the new features on the Poser 11.2 Pro update, but nobody has indicated that this is an option.

I have Poser 11.2 Pro. I installed the update. It is now virtually impossible for me to use the animation palette. Whenever I make a change, it refreshes numerical data for each item which takes forever and will eventually freeze up my computer. I was using it to edit a movie with about 4500 frames. I finally gave up and used a Poser 10 version which I still had. Is it possible to disable any of these new features on Poser 11.2 Pro so that they don't slow down my computer so much? I was satisfied with the older version of Poser 11.2 Pro and was beginning to use the Genesis figures, but that's not possible now.

I was using Poser 11 Pro and working on an animation with 4500 frames (2 1/2 minutes). I upgraded to Poser 11.2 Pro. Since then, I have been unable to use the animation palette because my computer freezes up and when I try to make a movie on WMV high resolution, the program shuts down after 55 seconds of the 2 1/2 minute movie. I am using a Dell XPS 8700 with an Nvidia GeForce graphics card which I got specifically to help me do animations. So, I have given up on Poser 11.2 Pro. Since I can't go back to Poser 11 Pro, I am now using the Poser 10 program that I still had on my computer. I am going to be shopping for other animation programs.

Thanks, Nails. I appreciate your quick and honest response.

I just upgraded from Poser Pro 11 to Poser Pro 11.2. It deleted all of my DSON libraries. The Animation Palette is very twitchy and will freeze up on me. I am trying to 'make movie.' The settings are WMV medium quality and Preview size. It is rendering at a very slow rate. I tried letting it work after I went to bed last night and when I woke up, my computer was frozen up and only half the movie was done. I didn't have any of these problems before upgrading. The movie that I am trying to render is 4700 frames.

1. What happened to my DSON libraries?
2. Can I undo the upgrade?
3. Is there a solution to the twitchy Animation Palette?
4. What suggestions do you have to improve the efficiency on 'make movie.'
5. It looks like there was a major change to the organizational structure for Poser. Is Smith Micro gone? Did Renderosity take over?

Thanks Sherry