Perhaps they have moved, as documented in this thread:

http://www.runtimedna.com/forum/showthread.php?67096-Props-randomly-moving-in-PP2012.&p=659065&posted=1#post659065

Thanks! Very useful!

Quote - personally I was horrified when she got involved with russell brand.  it was so heart-rending to see it happen.

I agree. He's an intelligent and eloquent bloke, what would he possibly see in her? (Well, apart from the obvious, haha, but that's hardly enough to base a long term relationship on.)

I had high hopes when she came up with the West Ham United corset, but apparently that was as good as it got...

Sounds just perfect...

Yes please! That would be spiffing!

I could also really use this!

Quote - AFAIK, Shadow Min Bias and several other settings are Percentages or something similar, and therefore not subject to changing your Poser units.

Most likely, absolute values, where 1 = theoretical maximum and any number between that and zero is valid.  I could be wrong but I believe that's how it works.  Not that there's anything to stop you putting a higher than 1 value in such slots, other than getting completely barmy results. 

I WISH somebody could tell us about stuff like this. The manual is completely useless, for example: in the hair room - "Root Stiffness" is defined as "the stiffness of the root" (or something similar - I'm quoting from memory). What use is that?

I want to know the units, the minimum, the maximum, the direction, what does 0 mean? what does 1 mean? what does 100 mean?

Oh, I know I can find out, I can do oodles of test tenders that all take forever...

The bloke who wrote the code must have known what he was doing - so why doesn't he tell us what it all means?

At the moment our only chance is to read every single post by BB, who occaisonally turns up with a gem along the lines of: oh, I happened to find out it's an inverse logarithm set in light years and ignoring your poser units, well, that's fine, I can live with that, but PIITFM (Put It In...)

(pi**i)TFM... haha... I quite like that... reminds me that I used to be a nerd hahaha

I was very careful. And nearly everything worked out OK. Most of my preferences were taken into the new version. Lighting has gone completely up the spout for many previously saved scenes and needs to be redone. Rendering takes longer, unless you check the use outside process business.

Nevertheless, a BRILLIANT update and you have to do it!

Switching from "Render" to "Preview" now takes a second and not six minutes!

It's not perfect but it's getting there...

Quote - I can't reveal too much about it because it may still change substantially. But in a nutshell we will implement a download manager... Perhaps closer to steam or Mac app store. You won't have to think about what to DL or where to put it (outside of your designated preferences)it will just "work" I don't want to debate this too heavily just yet because it's still very much a work in progress and there isn't much I can tell you concretely. I will share more as I can.

You have to be kidding! I know you don't want to debate about it, and that's fair enough, but I'm going to tell you my opinion anyway haha!

A "download manager" is never, ever, going to be installed on any of my machines. I reject that level of intrusion totally.

If you want a click of confirmation of terms and conditions (however worthless that may ultimately be), make an installer with three options:

1. Default. Everything gets unpacked wherever you want.

2. Custom (for "advanced users" hahaha). Whatever I want gets unpacked wherever I want.

3. I reject all the blah blah blah... and exit installer.

It's not a major revolution, take a look at the professional audio software world. The plugins and audio libraries are far more expensive than any DAZ product. Installation is mostly easy, painless and safe, and the companies manage to protect all their bases and do OK.

Thanks for taking the time to answer.

And for what it's worth, I don't care much about Genesis support in Poser. I think your other figures are fine, and what's more, they're now free, so as an absolute beginner I have to say thanks very much!

Quote - One of our main projects right now is to revamp the download and install experience. We realize it's a pain and we are fixing it as a high-priority

Great news! (But you do realise that I may now hold off buying anything until it's fixed!)

Thank you for the prompt reply!

Dear Sir,

Why does content from the DAZ store use installers? Why can't I just unzip a runtime?

The installers:

• are flaky;

• restrict control over where content is installed;

• may refuse installation if another product is "missing" - why? Why must I have, for example, V4 to install V4 content. I may, quite legitimately, wish to use the content with another figure;

• are too long winded - very annoying if one is reinstalling or rebuilding the runtime structure.

My compliments,

Marc

This usually happens to me when I have more than one animation layer. Check the layers in the animation palette,

You can switch this off in the VLC preferences.

Sorted! Thank you!

Sir, my compliments!

Very impressive work, and I enjoyed it immensely.