Yeah he has a weird sense of humor. On thread when I requested the morphs for V4 because the damn bot didn't call me back to the thread with replies fast enough, thinking I lost interest or was being rude he had a fit and started bashing me. Not very friendly. I hoped he was at least entertaining the notion but.... Checked out Onze's suff. He uses some very unusual alterations that won't allow any extra morphs to be used before or after his alterations are applied. l methodology I can't work with because the character has already been created and just need to be able to apply the limbless morphs to it. But thanks for the response.

wolf359 posted at 8:50PM Sun, 02 February 2020 - #4378714

ssgbryan posted at 5:34PM Sun, 02 February 2020 - #4378604

Apple has been warning the Apple community for a couple of years now about 32-bit support going the way of 16-bit support, so this shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone. Apple has ALWAYS been like this, it isn't something that Timmy cooked up.

I would suggest that you plan a transition away from Apple. If you need any help, let us know. In my case, it was a great 20 years, but It Just Works means Windows 10, not OSX.

Ryzen is a whole new ballgame.

Apple has long ago become a luxury brand for affluent consumers. not a product for us hobbiest 3D/CG artist and certainly not for industry professionals

No hard feelings.

They are one of the great American business Success stories I wish them well

All of the really interesting tools for 3D/CG artists are on windows now especially for us animators /VFX artists. who wnat to use realtime engines and many that I am migrating too are Free.

( Blender 2.81 , Davinci Resolve, Natron).

I have two windows PC's ,two android phones and an android base tablet and an old 13 year old intel mac still rendering my final mac based animation project.

https://youtu.be/Xja0DNS1rRc

The future is looking good for independant artists/hobbiests with Limited budgets.?

No offense taken dude. Hope you are well! But you know me man and therefore how I feel about having to tackle those learning curves. If I was bad or found it difficult back what seems like a lifetime ago friend, I am far worse off now. I just can't do it any more. It frustrates me and causes me much unneeded stress but I have to stick to same old same old just to create some stupid little picture you very much know I haven't called "ART" for a very long time. I just want to sit quietly and focus on doing my thing w/o hassle. Can't o that if trying to learn something new just to do the image let alone constantly dealing with all the damn tech stuff. Creating my images was a two fold affair.

1. Escape and sublimation
2. Mindless relaxation. Reinvesting in Windows and apps and content I will need to run it is not an option. Too invested in Mac run apps. to movr to another platform yet no longer happy about spending any more on Macs either. Like standing in a doorway with one leg in one room and the other in another room being unable to decide one room over the other.

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 8:44PM Sun, 02 February 2020 - #4378713

You can do both, you know. Digital and traditional. These are all mine.

(yes that's a jointed doll)

(another jointed doll, this one sculpted in Zbrush, 3d printed and then sculpted traditionally over that!)

The thing is, one skill adds to the other, when it comes to art. Having a good eye for photography will help you figure out what you draw. Being able to draw will help you create more beautiful 3d characters. Being able to sew will help you draw more realistic clothing. And so on.

And as much as digital is taking a lot of space, people still appreciate the traditional arts too. And various media. They've just invented new techniques for 2d animation for Klaus, in the era of 3d animation. Bookstores are regaining love. And so on.

True that but only if you transition to one w/o stopping the other. Due to lack of space to set up a good work area for drawing boards and art-o-graph set up, and light boxes or darkroom or studio and....well, depending on your art mode of preference, you lose the abilities or hand and eye coordination etc. Once gone as in my case hard to get back into the groove. NICE WORK BTW. Love the BJ doll!

Sheit friend. THANK YOU VERY MUCH for putting a stupid grin BACK on my frown! Maybe I can try to get my lines and wrinkles going the opposite way. Luckily I had all my Analog Nikons refurbished before I retired them. I kept all my studio stuff (except my Dyna-Lite strobes and hand flash gear and meters which dried up from lack of love/use losing them to Analog forced obsolescence) and all my top of the line darkroom equipment stuffed into a big wood shipping crate. Thousands of dollars of equipment collected over the years in the field. Though I kept my air brushes, I sold my air compressors so no more airbrushing. But realistically I no longer have space for doing anything analog except drawing on a dining room table and that is no longer an option either. I just can't go back to doing things the way I did when younger either and that hurts as much as whining about being a captive of digital tech. But again thanks for the positive juice. Appreciate it.

I worked with Windoze machines and never like them. Been with Macs since 1993 and will neer go back to Windoz! Is it just Apple that is caught up in the "Forced Obsolescence" game or EVERY TECH INDUSTRY? I can understand it as a business decision.....afterall in business revenue stream and PROFIT is NEVER good enough.....M.O.R.E.! is always more better! But at my age looking back at the 30 years I have been using tech to create artwork...that doesn't even exist (can't touch it, hold it, display it, collect it or preserve it), having weighed the volume of work I have literally LOST because of my inability to anally keep up with tech changes and religiously backing images up that WANT TO FADE, hell, are MADE TO DISAPPEAR into the ether, I can honestly say I am kinda fed up. Spending more and more time tweaking, synching and upgrading and backing up the damn technology has become the real work and the picture has slowly taken a back seat. If I at least had the end products: the PICTURES, to show whatever depth or breadth I have to show as an artist might not be so bad. But I don't.......really, What, images posted on-line or the few actually published in books or posters? WAY too few compared to all the long hours of hand cramping eye straining, ass flattening and wallet draining work I put into the creative process over the last 30 years on computers. I am about the picture....only the picture....and always about the picture. As an artist THEN nothing else has ever mattered. NOW I no longer know what I am. I am certainly reluctant calling myself an artist! I have not been able to create a singly picture for almost a year now and I am heart-struck. Not because I don't have the desire or the idea but I don't have the damn TOOL! Just thinking i gotta go out and toss yet another $3000 bucks(on top of the countless thousands of dollars I have wasted these last 30 years) into the fat coffer of yet another tech company (and it's not just Apple, what about Adobe, or Microsoft, or Intel or what the frell other company!) just so I can go back to being the picture creator I have been since 3rd grade, makes me want to scream my fool old head off. We let ourselves become slaves or prisoners or freaking slaving prisoners of tech spending way more money than necessary and way more time with tech than on the creative process. I tried taking out my old well cared for technical pens and draw something....anything....on paper again and could not even draw a straight line again. No more pens, pencils airbrushes, no more clay, wood, metal or leather, no more cameras and film and hours in the darkroom watching magic happen. All dead because of my foray into computer-land! I was told I needed it and could not earn a living without it because it was "the future". So, reluctantly I did. And as promised, it did. But at what cost....to me anyway. Now, with less future than past, I look at it all and cringe at how stupid and gullible I was believing it enough to immerse myself in it, so completely and exclusively, at the cost/loss of everything else including my need to create. As DaVinci repeated over and over on his death bed: "TELL ME IF ANYTHING WAS EVER DONE....TELL ME IF ANYTHING WAS EVER DONE!?" At least he had a huge repository of finished artwork to prove he had come this way. If the last 30 years are any indication of my journey, I will not! Really wishing I never got involved with the whole technology race thing..........and apologizing for the rant......signing out............:(

CobraBlade posted at 12:46PM Sat, 01 February 2020 - #4366571

Last I check I had over 160 32Bit apps on my system... So guess where Apple can stick Catalina.

Agree...until your current computer dies and you need to get a new one to continue your work and then they got you by the proverbial arse. This is the problem when a company gets too damn big.

A 2010 MacBook Pro started having GPU problems (computer reboots as more and more work is done in prepping files in Poser (and other apps now). THe idea of having to spend $3000 again on another computer (3rd in 10 years!). Because GPUs were created in series there is no fix for it no matter what because ALL the GPUs used were of the same defective series). SO Buying a new computer is the fix. Unfortunately that will kill ALL my apps. What I never understood was if those apps have been for 10 years 32bit were they working fine on my old MacBook pro running in 64Bitt but won't run in Catalina and a newer MacBook running in 64Bit?

So reading here and elsewhere I can run the newly updated Poser 11+ on a 64bitt MacBook (I have not purchased yet) will I be able to transfer several of my Runtime folders to use with it in 64 bitt and open older Poser fiiles on the new platform?

OK Great. Thanks for your help!

I am curious I downloaded the upgrade and it installed fine but now having problems with my old computer. Apparently it is having problems with CPU/GPU and keeps rebooting during especially complex scene renders. I have another computer i can run it on but I will need to get another version of Poser to install on it so I can transfer all my old Poser stuff and multiple Runtimes on it. How do I get a new copy of Poser 11.2 to do this install on my new computer?

what is "decimate" and what reason would there be to "decimate"? Iunderstand it is to reduce file size...but how does it work with Poser?

never used this figure...heck i didn't even know I had it until now and i have been using V4 since its release. Now gotta find it but not too interested in anything V3.....yet! So not sure how this will help me now with what i needed to do.

I am sorry I still seem to be missing something please be patient.... -You start with V3 and V4.2. -You transfer morphs from V4.2 figure to the V3 figure -You wind up with both in one figure Or did you mean you are working with a preexisting V4.2 to V3 base figure (sort of like a low res V4.2, and moving V3 morphs to it which means the V4.2 to V3 Hybrid needs to be receiving the V3 morphs.

So....there is a V4.2 to V3 figure available somewhere whose mesh is set up for this kine of transferring or was this what you got mixing the morphs with Morph managing/transferring?

hborre posted at 4:36PM Wed, 23 October 2019 - #4368119

Here is a perfect examine of morph copying from one figure to another. In the image is a V4.2 to V3 figure, quite capable of accepting V4 face morphs and textures but unable to accept direct morph injections from either V3 or V4. Typical V4 head, V3 body. A figure you can dress in V3 clothing.

I thought you said earlier the transfer had to be from two like meshes? V3 and V4 aren't like meshes. so how does it work? I did write i transferred morphs from V2 to V2PT through Morph Manager the ONLY way I could get V2PT to accept body change morphs for V2. This work the same way? If I remember V2PT had similar mesh construct as V2 that was why I thought it actually worked?!

Good to know this. Wondering if Meipei's "PERFECT" Body morphs will also transfer since the V4 figure has to be prepared first somehow(of course not knowing how to do that I begged Meipei to prep a V4 figure with his starter prep setup when I bought the morph sets...which he kindly did for me! or with transferring body adjust morphs to another customized morphed figure like Karina's Sixteen weight mapped figures also based on V4)? Can the target donor figure be deleted from the stage once the morphs arr transferred and the complete morphed figure be saved in library to be used later?