Excellent. It worked. Many Thanks. Scott

Yesterday after doing a clean install of Poser (this includes deleting ALL preferences), this is what I tryed. I opened Poser and loaded four runtimes. Daz Luke & Laura. Their textures. Their bodysuits. And also one prop, Devil horns (it seemed to fit the moment) which I got from the free area & is something I've never used prior to now. I loaded Luke changed his texture & put his bodysuit on and added the devil horns. I kept the default lighting but changed one of it's shadow values to .3 & map to 500 and moved their positions a bunch of times throughout my tests. I then kept changing things, body positions, lights position, light colors, doing a render every so often all the while in and out of the materials room changing colors ect. trying to push poser. I could not get it to crash. I then added a 1 sided square and enlarged it to 800% I then went to the material room applyed the devil horn texture to it & once again like above pushing poser to crash like so many times before. Just when I thought I had passed past-points of crashes... I go over to the material room & Wouldn't you know it? CRASH!!!! :>((((((((

Thanks randym77.
I didn't even know there was a Mac Forum.
I've posted a thread over there. No real solutions yet but beyween the two my hopes are high. I also sent my original text to Poser. No reply yet.

Thanks Miss nancy for the smile. ")
At the risk of sounding like those you speak of... Since my moving to OS X just over a year ago nothing has ever crashed my computers. Pre X had lots of crashes.

Jay when I speak of "anywhere" all I mean is that you can load as many runtimes as you want and put them anywhere. The Poser book says even external drives. I beleive thats what I read. I beleive what there getting at is RT's do not need to be in the download folder supplied in the poser app folder.
I have tryed mine both in that folder and on my users document folder. I haven't tryed bulking mine into one.

Charlie.
On Posers site they speak of issues P6 has with Tiger. Mostly these seem to be seperate from my problems. Though they do talk of crashes when switching rooms they say SR2 fixes this problem. I've SR2 and it didn't fix my problem.

I have tryed the most simpilist scenes I mean incredibly simple one Daz Figure one Daz clothing and one never before used prop & though I got alot of in & outs of the material room it inevetably did crash my System.

I realy don't know what I'm going to do.

Maybe I just need to get away from it for awhile.

Thanks Much!

Scott

Oh ya. I do have Poser SR2 installed. And am running Tiger 10.4.4 which is supposed to have the most up to date Graphic Drivers. Scott

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1128347&Start=1&Artist=blizzard&ByArtist=Yes

Spinal Tap... Now sounds faintly familar. I've only seen bits & peices of that movie. Scott

Drummer to Combust. ") Noooo! He's the heart of the band, they can't do it without him. I've been posing all night. I'ld probably understand that better with a fresh mind. MUSIC VIDEO?! These stills are tuff enough. Animation... Maybe in my next life. Scott

Unfortunetly that file was before I changed Poser to embed morphs & I lost it's morphs. I do plan on recreating her for another scene. It may be a few days though. (Dude, outstanding) Thanks. This poser stuff is tuff. Lots of crashes making RockStars. I have a few versions/saves for that one. Currently if I open the latest file & go to Materials... CRASH! :>( Unuseable. It's very frustrating. I've got a second Computer & am going to work on transfering everything over to it. I still have to pick up & install some more ram though. But I'm curious how it will behave being a clean system. Scott

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1134832&Artist=blizzard&Start=1&ByArtist=Yes

The part I love about Illustrator is switching from Textures to Trancparencies.
For some of the simpilar cloths, Trancparencies might not be so critical. What I'm trying to accomplish here is custom stuff using the body suits. I could copy to Photoshop but would rather not. I'll spend alot of time trying not to spend alot of time. ;) Which I think I've accomplished. (see next post)

I'm leaning towards using trancparency gradients in some of my future ideas, which is where Illustrator for me will work best.
I've worked with them quite a bit thus far.
I do think I need to take a break and see what I can accomplish with other preformed clothing for awhile.

Scott

Will see what a couple days of Photoshop does for me.

Thanks Again

Scott

I think I'm dead in the water on this. I greatly appreciate your percistance. :>)))) See next two threads for pics. I just did yet another bunch of tests in Illustrator. (including rasterizing before exporting) Then I did One test in Photoshop. (dragging my flowers over to Photoshop) All Illustrator tests failed showing seams. Photoshop had success no seams. But I can create and more importantly edit far better in Illustrator. Doing it in Photoshop is harder. Maybe thats just me. (I'm going to recreate this in Photoshop & see how it goes). But to explain things a bit more... To go from my 1st image/attachment to a Trans map in Illustrator is extremely easy & gives vector-sharp results. And if my gradient is to high or low or to dark or light... Adjustment is a snap. All I have to do is drag my sliders one way or the other. I'm thinking Photoshop will not be so easy. I can create this in Photoshop just future adjustment of it is tuffer for me. Again I'm days away from giving PSD a valiant effort. Thanks again! Scott

Yes it's P6 running on a Mac. I always make backups. And have the morph preferences set at imbedded. Scott