Yep, that's it.

They have volunteers (one's a friend) who go around dusting all those pieces of glass every day or so.  It's out in the open, so you can imagine the dust problem.

Klebnor

My $.02:

I use multiple runtimes, similar to the approach outlined by Believable 3D above.  When one gets ungainly (takes a while to open), I split it.  For example, I had a lot of DAZ characters (other than V4) in one runtime.  M3 items got to be a large volume, so I split that out into a separate M3 runtime.  How do I do that?  I maintain a separate but identical folder structure on a raid volume (in a folder called Poser Runtimes) and move each zip or exe file to the appropriate folder there after successful installation.  This way I always have the original content files organized according to my runtimes.  This also makes backup of the original zip/exe files easy.  I have an external USB drive which I hook up occasionally and copy everything over to.  Given the cost of an external 250 GB drive today, this is way more efficient than making DVD's.

When I want to split a runtime, I first split the folder with the content zip/exe files, then make the new runtime in my poser directory, delete all content from the old runtime (ie: Daz Characters) and then reinstall the content into the two folders ... Daz Characters and M3.  This process is greatly simplified if you have 3D Content Installer (by ahudson).  It will install all your files to a runtime at once (including Daz installers).  Really, this wouldn't be realistic without it.

Also, I tend to go into the pose folder and rename content which modifies a given product (like additional textures for clothes) so that the folder name begins with the original product name.  Makes it easier to find when looking for something.

Finally, if you have a lot of content, a poser specific browser is really helpful.  I use P3dO and find it does a nice job.  You can see your content, and locate where texture files are placed (useful when the program can't find something).  One thing to note, P3dO is not that useful for the renaming tip above.  You can do it, but the delay when renaming a folder is horrendous.  Better to do that in explorer.

Hope these tips help.

Klebnor

I agree with ghonma 100%.  You will waste a lot of time learning how to use Poser, yet always be frustrated at render time.

I like Carrara, and you can get it reasonably if you wait for the occasional big DAZ sale.

Klebnor

My point, since it apparently is not clear, is that PETA has constructed an entire website devoted to the indoctrination of children into their extremist world view.

At first I thought, as many no doubt did, that the subject of this thread was a joke.  In fact, I joined in by posting what I felt was a humorous depiction of sea kittens as cat food.  This is called ironic juxtaposition.

The post referring to "faux news" peaked my interest sufficiently to google the topic.  I found that it is no joke.  The site is clearly targeted to children with cute characters and topics, including HTML story books with a heavy dose of anthropomorphism.  If this site had been constructed by a corporate group to sell a product, the media would have been all over it.  Since it just "educates" children on the horrors of the holocaust of animal abuse, it is all right.

It is rather odd, yet all too commonplace,  that people feel perfectly free to throw bombs at institutions like fox news, who at least attempt to tell both sides of most stories, and then become infuriated when it is pointed out that their accusations bear no merit.

Klebnor

Sorry, I missed the link for high school musical.

Your responses are perfectly reasonable and understandable in that context.

Klebnor

Of course you are condoning PETA.  You're supporting them and ridiculing fox news for, wait for it, reporting the news.

Sport fishing - I can take it or leave it.  By your analysis, anyone who rides a horse should put on a saddle and let someone else ride them.  PETA would be proud.

Where is the judgment call? - I provided the link.  If you can spend more than 10 minutes on that site without puking, then you are a PETA-phile.

Before you bash fox news, why not google?

Here's the link:

www.peta.org/sea_kittens/

Indoctrination B*&%S*#& for kiddies to read and get pissed at dad for going fishing.  This is more bizarre than fox could ever come up with.

Looks like fox was spot on this time.

Klebnor

Don't forget the Fosbury Floppy, which read the data upside down.

This drove me nuts at first too.  GKD is right, the object is the right size, your scene is just far larger than you think it is.  Look at the parameters (usually the scene is something like 100000 x 100000). 

Note that you can highlight an object in the menu, then hit the number zero to move your camera to the object.  You can also change navigation between large, medium and small by highlighting Scene in the menu then use the second tab above to change scene parameters.  Finally, on the edit drop down menu there is a selection for "move object to origin", just be sure you have the object you want to move highlighted when you select this.

good luck

Klebnor

BTW, Bopper, can one get Poffertjes at the Grote Markt in Haarlem this time of year?  There used to be a good stand by the train/bus station as well.

If so, they are not to be missed.

Klebnor

Hey Bopper,

If you find yourself in Zandvoort, try Het Wappen.  Good food, cold beer (small glasses, but i would guess you're used to that).

Klebnor von Kroons

If it were me, I'd go to Amsterdam.  The coffee shops aren't just for coffee.  If you have time, take a train to Maastricht - it's worth the side trip.  I also heartily recommend Haarlem and the less well known Zaandvoort.  When we lived in West Germany years ago, my wife and I went there many weekends.  Germany still had the awful shopping hours (virtually none on the weekend).  A Dutch friend of mine summed up the difference between Germany and the Netherlands:

In Germany, anything not specifically allowed is prohibited,
In the Netherlands, anything not specifically prohibited is allowed.

That pretty much sums up the Zeitgeist.

Not to slam Germany - you could do worse than Munich with side trips to Rotheburg ob der Taube (Medieval city with the ring wall and most buildings intact) and Neu Schwanstein (Ludwig's castle - you know, like at Disney World).

Klebnor

Well, I'm not sure what is meant by "Vue will use quad core CPUs to their fullest", but Carrara maxes out all four of my quad cores when rendering.  You can see each core listed with a differenc color on screen as they work sequentially on individual segments of the render.

Klebnor

I have poser 7 and Poser Pro 7, but never use them.  I switched to Carrara about a year ago and now I find poser frustrating.  It takes some time to get used to posing in Carrara, but once you do it is very intuitive.  The latest version (7.1.1) is very good at allowing free movement of a joint.  One does have to adjust shaders, but that can be done on the fly with Carrara.  Also, constraints can be a bit tight on joints - but you can turn them off.  I also animate, and Carrara is much easier (IMHO) due to the simple and complete control of all objects throughout the time line.

If your hardware can handle it, you can see what you're doing as you create a scene.  Then you can render lightning fast (unlike poser which offers a pukey view and snail like rendering).  The lights are so much better with realistic drop off.

Also, of course, Carrara offers terrain and sky which is simply unavailable in Poser.  The water is excellent.  There are primitives for ocean, fire and emitters for water, snow, etc.

Carrara also allows for manipulation of meshes, UV painting, creation of 3d objects.  While some mesh manipulation is possible in poser, it is hopelessly primitive in comparison.

A simple render is very quick, and is not far off the final product.

Once you explore Carrara, I think you will find poser a one-trick pony in comparison.

The only thing I use poser for now is to open and manipulate objects which do not import natively so I can save versions for import.

Klebnor