On page 239 of the manual it says that the key-shaped icon in the Camera controls indicates whether camera animation is on or off. It also states that the animation can be turned on/off for each individual camera. Hope this helps, Brian

From reading the manual I believe that simply moving the timeline to the desired frame and making the adjustments to the arm will do exactly what you want. You don't need to tell it to make a key frame. Poser will automatically create the keyframe with just the adjustments that you make to the arm. So I guess the short answer is just to not click the add keyframe button. Brian

Sounds like a desparate plea for attention to me

Very nice work!! Thank you for sharing these, they look terrific! Brian

That's what I wanted to know, I wasn't sure if they required clothing items to work :) Thanks, Brian

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Movida, Just a note... Poser runs fine on my Abit board with RAID hard drives (I have 2 30 GB in RAID-0). nu-be, it depends on the OS. With NT/2000/XP, generally the OS runs on 1 CPU and the applications on the second. I believe that with XP Server you can even specify what apps run on which CPU. Also, as I explained: RAID-0 is performance because the work load is split over 2 drives, effectively doubling the data rate. RAID-1 is for security. Once you are familiar with SCSI devices, the jumpers aren't that big of a deal. But they don't gain you enough of an advantage for the money you'd spend. As others have mentioned, IDE drives are much faster now then they used to be. 512 MB of RAM will work just fine, 1 GB only if you can afford it, and 2 GB is probably overkill. Brian

Actually, the impression that I got was that he told us what he did when he did because of the commotion that weekend... Brian

Thanks, nerd :) I'll load it up on my office PC (it's running all the time)!! Brian

May I offer a different opinion? Go to www.tccomputers.com, they have an Abit KR7A-RAID motherboard that has an onboard IDE RAID controller. It will do RAID-0, RAID-1, or RAID-0+1. RAID-0 splits the work load across 2 drives giving you a significant performance boost. RAID 1 will mirror the contents of 1 drive (or drive pair) for protection against physical hard drive failure. RAID-0+1 does both. Get yourself 2 IDE hard drives (or 4 if you want the mirror option), as much RAM and the fastest AMD Athlon XP you can afford. In my opinion, this will offer you much better overall performance then just a single SCSI drive. This is the configuration I use here and I'm very happy with the performance. Keep CD-ROM drives, ZIP drives, etc. on the standard IDE controllers. Of course, if you go with SCSI RAID then you'd blow away the IDE RAID, but that's another (more expensive) story... If you can afford that, go with Dual P4 Xeon processors & Windows XP Pro as well. Xeon's have a much larger internal cache, making "data crunching" applications significantly faster. Also, make sure that you get a video card that has good OpenGL speed benchmarks for when Poser 5 hits the market. Just my opinion. Brian

Sure enough, there it is! The web page that had the description of the terrain modeler also had the spline, vertex, and metaball modeler's. So I guess my confusion was that I was expecting it to be in the modeling room. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction :) Brian

Hello, Just my two cents, but... There are new derivatives of existing computer virii popping up on a daily basis. So just because the anti-virus manufacturers, new sites, etc. say that a virus doesn't fake the entire header doesn't mean that someone out there hasn't "improved" upon the original virus. In my opinion, someone out there has your e-mail address and Sharen's e-mail address. The virus originated from that person's PC, faking the header to report that it came from Sharen's PC. I had this happen to me with a different virus. But that's just my opinion. Brian

Ron, I agree that backing up your important data files is important, and that everyone should do so. I, for one, have accumulated so much "stuff" that I had to upgrade to a DVD-RW drive for backup/storage. There are a couple of other tips I can offer you as well: 1. Put a secondary hard drive in your PC. Make sure this is a physical hard drive and not just an extended partition on your primary hard drive. I keep all of my important data files on this drive. There are two benefits to this. First, you are free to format/reload your primary drive without worrying about backing up your data files. Second, the virii that wipe out hard drives always wipe out the boot drive, but never seem to bother secondary drives. Now that I've said this publicly, someone will make one that wipes out ALL of your drives. Oh, well... :( 2. In lieu of a secondary hard drive, consider investing in an IDE RAID controller (or a motherboard with onboard RAID) and an extra set of hard drives. You can use RAID-0 for performance (it uses 2 physical drives as 1 logical drive, splitting the work load between the two). RAID-1 will mirror your hard drives for protection against mechanical hard drive failures. If one drive fails, you simply replace it and restore from the mirror. If you want the best of both, use RAID-0+1 which does both but requires 4 matching hard drives. My motherboard was $89 with onboard RAID-0+1, and 20 GB drives are available for $75 or less. Best of luck, Brian Wheatley

I also received an empty newsletter e-mail... I have had one computer screwed up by a virus, and one computer screwed up by the anti-virus program. The anti-virus program caused more damage then the virus. Needless to say, I no longer use that virus program. :) Brian

I know pretty absolutely nothing about Bryce, but I do know that there is a small difference between Poser OBJs and Wavefront OBJs. I believe Poser uses a line feed to end the text lines and the standard is a carriage return. Some programs have a problem with this. If I remember correctly, opening the OBJ file in a text editor and re-saving it (with a different file name) was the "solution" to that issue. Hope this helps, Brian