yes, that should help. if your other outifit didn't have the same nodes, those would not be filled with color! Sorry to have skipped that scenario!!

Hi yam Pat! What you want to make is a material that will work with all or any item you choose, right?

If so, go to the Material room and Make your material. (Please note that if you use a texture that is specific to the dress in question for the texture It will only work with this dress, but you will be able to apply it to anything!! )

1. With the Material Room Open Click Edit > Memorize Object

2. Click the little plus sign at the bottom of the Materials Library page. It's a good idea to Naviage to the folder you want your new material to appear in.

3. Poser will pop up a dialog box for a New Material Set

4. Give it a logical name

5. Chose Single Material if you want a texture to apply to anything. (If it's a part of something else, Poser will tell you and you can choose those options if you want)

This will save as an *.MT5

Or

1. if you want a texture that works with ALL parts of the item, like you have a transparency at the hem, and piping on the seams, and you want to save all your work, Chose Material Collection, and then choose the parts of the item you want to be included in the Material Set. This will save as an MC6.

Either way, the new Material will appear in the folder you told it to. It will be ugly, but it will be there!!! Poser takes a bad screen shot of your item on the stage and makes that the icon. It does a better job for hte MT5, because it uses the Preview at the bottom of Poser Surface (in the advanced area) to make the icon.

Good luck!

Sounds like a memory issue.... How big is your V4 character? How much RAM do you have??
How long is "forever" for you? (it's about .005 seconds for me!!) But every time you click on her, you tell poser to load her again, so please, don't do that!!!

You probably need to log on with Admin rights to save the settings... But I don't know how to do that on Windows 10. I'm sorry!
Yes, more ram will help. You can't be too thin, have too many shoes or too much RAM!!!! ;)

I copied mine to the new computer....
I installed DS and told it where the Library folder was gonna live (never on my C drive, cause I'm old and paranoid!) Then I copied all my goodies in to the folder DS created and Everything Worked! I was pleasantly surprised!!!

I'm very sorry, but I do not understand your question.
Most Poser Products are zip files, which must be unzipped into any runtime before you can use them.

Object files, such as those from Sketch up would be imported as wavefront Objects via File > Import > WaveFront Object. It is perfectly usable as is.

If you intend this to be a prop, you would select it and choose Edit > Memorize > Object then choose the appropriate options.... and click the PLUS sign at the bottom of an appropriate folder in your Props Library Window and save it.

If you want it to be a character, you'd Click Edit > Memorize > Figure and it will go to the New Figures Folder in Characters in the POSER 11Content Runtime. All you supply here is the name.

If you are using the default install, you probably need to be logged on as administration so you can write to the protected folders.

good luck!! If I don't respond, I didn't see your future reply! feel free to send site mail!

I've never seen this issue, but, Poser files are all just text files. You can open them with word pad or notepad or notepad++ (Please not MS Word!!) and see what is actually going on.

Assuming you can find the original install, the read me will tell you where to find the 3rd party files so you can see what's inside them.

Picking a random Head Inj from Godin in my runtime, I see a call to the !DAZ folder, but no specific reference to any character name.
Can you send your exact steps?? THANKS!

Do you have all the service packs installed?

Of course it's buggy!! UV mapping is a horror! You cannot save it. you have to complete it all in one go!!
All of my exported objects develop a new material zone on export.
I'm pretty sure there is a memory leak.... It works better every time I upgrade my machine!!
It ignores the scale you set in the export dialog. Just pretend you don't see the option, Hex doesn't see it either!!!

On the plus side, it's cheap, it works. You can make pretty cool stuff. It will let you create greater than 4 sided polys, but it will tell ya where they are if you ask.
I've got Silo, too, but I need to spend more time with the Tutorials!! Silo doesn't like to make triangles, but it will UV map reasonably well!

IF you go the Hex route, there are lovely, free tutorials here.... http://www.geekatplay.com/hexagon-tutorials.php But Hex is almost totally unsupported, having many of the features of Abandonware.

Yes, I'm sure there will be many tutorials and lots of help and advice in all of the poser forums. But the program is still very new and it takes time for the folks who are brighter than I am to create the tutorials. Currently, your best bet would be to find Poser 11 specific forums and ask your questions there. Some of them may be a bit rude, but someone will have the information you need, or know where you can find it.

Generally, unless you're ready for the final render, you'll want to use pretty low render settings... with Fire fly, that would be similar to unchecking SSS until you're ready for the final render. PP11's defaults are probably adequate for test renders.

according to the Poser manual:

Attraction Points: The maximum number of closest points on the target geometry that are taken into account when tightening. so a smaller number would give you a tighter fit in that area because it only looks at the nearest points. A larger number would give you a looser fit.

this behaviour doesn't seem to have anything to do with Netherworks Camera Panel Plus. I couldn't find an answer with re PP 2012, but It looks like Smith Micro fixed it with PP 2014. I readily reproduced it in PP 2012, but couldn't with PP 2014 or PP 11.
I'm sorry not to have better news.

This isn't a newbie questions, so I'm going to move your thread to the main poser forum where I hope you will get more information!!! Best of luck to you!!!