I have only had to call on DAZ's technical support once when I had a problem with an update for Michael's Trenchcoat. After a short e-mail conversation that failed to fix it, one of their technical support arranged a time to call me (which suprised me as I'm in the UK) and we spent about half an hour on the phone sorting it out. Curious Labs Tech Support are far worse in my experience. You are lucky to get a real response from them (as opposed to an automated response). I once e-mailed them if they knew about the bump map problems in P4 and if so, were they going to do anything about it. Their reply was to send the request via their web site fault logging system. I did that and got an e-mailed reply saying they couldn't process my request because I didn't specify what my CPU was. I replied to their e-mail telling them my CPU details and pointing out that this detail was irrelevant. They replied that I had to use ctheir web site to log the problem, so I did- re-entering all the details. I got an acknowledgement that the request was logged and heard nothing after that- which is what normally happens when I log a request.

Oh rabbits! Thanks for that info.

Thanks fo the reply. I was thinking I could copy the morphs from M2 to the clothing using Morph Manager. Is that possible?

I find copying and pasting into Excel more interesting. Try it with Dials with a PZ3 animated scene.

I've copied & pasted this thread into Word and saved it case I ever need it. Thanks VK!

My machine only has 256MB memory and an Intel Celeron 600MHz Processor. It runs P5 fine since the latest updates (and I do animation) and P5 can handle scenes my P4 couldn't. I've left it running for days rendering and it doesn't crash, so I don't believe this memory leak gossip. I used to think it was os related, I use Windows XP, but there are XP users who can't run Poser 5 on more powerful machines than mine. It really is a mystery as to what causes P5 to crash for these users, but whatever it is, it isn't to do with physical memory.

Alternatively, use the Animation Palette. 1. Collapse the element list for your figure. 2. Select the box that is in the frame you wish to copy from. 3. Do edit copy. 4. Select the box that is the frame you wish to copy to. 5. Do edit paste.

If you haven't loaded the SR3 patch, do so. That fixes a number of light problems.

Attached Link: http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/renderer.html

It's one of the firefly render options- honest!

Lowering the bucket size can sometimes fix the problem, but slows down the render time. Try it & let us know.

I've had this problem before. Not sure how I fixed it, it was one of the following things... Removed all the temp files & defragged my machine or... The was a file in the Poser 4/ImageIOPlugins library that shouldn't have been there. Can't remember what is was called, but if you look at the most recently created file in that directory and moved it out of there then try rendering. If you still have the same problem, put it back. or... I reinstalled Poser 4. Sorry I can't remember which fixed it. I think the second solution was for an animation render and the temp file was an AVI file. If you get really stuck, try rendering using the animation renderer but set to render only one frame and see if that works.

Why don't you render the largest size and then use a 2D graphics program to create the smaller sizes?

I suppose you could use the transparency material, which can be animated in poser 5, to do that, but I'd've thought setting scale to 0% would be easier.

I would have thought P5 files would only be incompatible with Daz Studio only if it includes P5 features such as P5 hair, dynamic cloth, animated textures, etc. As time goes on, more and more people will be using these things in their scenes, so Daz's target market is decreasing the more they delay releasing. Of course, if they release a buggy product, they'll be blasted- esp. as we've been waiting so long for it. My impression from what I've read about Daz Studio is that it will try to take Poser forward from version 4 but in a different direction that Poser 5 has taken. The big question is will Poser 5 users want to take a sideways step to DAZ Studio. It also means, in my opinion, that Daz Studio will not be complimentary to Poser 5, as some here have stated, but a competitor. I look forward to the release of Daz Studio and seeing what it can do, but until then it's only software we can talk about, which is what I call vapourware.