lol, no demonic languages...except pause oh no, I might have used the word "Microsoft" in the Mimic pose! gasp That would have done it I am sure. lol.

Howard rules, that is true. ;)

Converting my FAT32 to NTFS fixed it for me on XP Pro. I ran correctreference yesterday and I probably should do it today since I installed a bunch more stuff.

Whoa now, convert to NTFS went flawless...Pbooost works just fine now. The easy fixes are the best, aren't they? It'll take some time getting used to using PBooost. It does take another step and extra time to make sure ##switchbanks is selected and then go to PBooost and select the bank you want and then go back to Poser...but probably less time than is wasted by searching the long, long lists with tired, frustrated eyes. :) Thanks to all for their concern and assistance! Steve

I have PM 8 so maybe I'll try it. In fact, I've been working since 6am here at home so it is time for a break, breakfast and a shower. I'll start PM and see how it comes out. LOL, if I don't get back here with a report today it means that my hd got hosed which would be a very, very bad thing. Perhaps I'll backup Outlook folders, bookmarks and such before I do this. I keep all my working data on another drive. Steve.

Hi Howard, Feel no pain! With the variety of hardware and OS's out there, someone is always going to have a problem. :) I have FAT32 on my C drive, my boot and applications partition. I thought I had formatted it to NTFS when I put XP Pro on it but apparently I did FAT32 for some reason. I wonder if it is possible to convert to NTFS and retain everything. I REALLY don't want to have to rebuild that drive again although it isn't that big of a deal, I've done it enough times in the past. Therein lies my problem with PBooost undoubtably, eh? Steve.

I tried that..hmmm. maybe I'll reboot and try it all again! :) thanks.

You DEFINITELY have too much time on your hands :)

nimesh, not bad at all. The eye shape is great, I can't quite figure out how to narrow them like that. The hair is a problem, isn't it? I have TotalHair from hmann but it's taking me forever to learn how to really use it. lol. everything seems to take me forever! yes pakled, I bet her back IS sore....morphs can be dangerous.:)

Nope, no side pic, that is one problem.

Forgot to put in my email address, it might be listed under my user profile but just in case: ssalter@saltcom.net -Steve

oooh, Jaagar, what you say sounds intriguing....SINCE my figure was sitting and facing right, when I applied a standing pose that faced forward, my figure naturally adopted a right facing pose since the body was facnig that way. IF I had rotated the body first...ok, I think I got the idea. I'll need to play with it now. ChristianB, thanks a lot! By going through your notes and experimenting, I actually got a reasonably smooth standup and I did it with no predefined poses, how cool! I am learning. I just got overwhelmed with everything, all the dials, all the movements. Your advice helped extremely. I'll be heading to your site. :) Now, I still can't get the zoom to work. I have my figure stand up, I add a jeyframe, move the marker another 10 frames and "zoom" up with my camera so the head and shoulders are visible. I add another keyframe there. I still get some scene movement from the first frame and I did check to make sure I have plenty of keyframes. For the heck of it, I added a keyframe 10 frames after my final position standing up, then 10 more frames before I did the "zoom" and added a keyframe. Not sure why the unwanted zoom is still happening. I'll continue to play with it. Thanks to all, what a great forum and great people. Steve

...and what might the site URL be?

Everything is interpolated from the previous keyframe. >Which, based on your description, would probably be frame >1. If you don't want the camera to start zooming from the >beginning, you'll have to set another keyframe somewhere >in the middle of your animation sequence. That's what I did...my animation is around 120 frames long and I changed it to 160, added a keyframe at 120 and another at about 130. At frame 130 (or thereabouts) is where I did the camera changes. I need to check spline interpolation since you mention it...I thought I had it off!

I inserted a new keyframe at the end of my basic animation, moved the camera up close and ran through the animation. Then the entire movie from frame 1 "zoomed" out and then zoomed in until it reached the frame where I changed the camera position. Quite intriguing but not what I was thinking about. Not quite sure why changing the placement/scaling at one keyframe near the end of the movie affected the whole thing.