Oh that's right.  I wonder if that's what it is, and if there's any way around it.

Quote - Is this so that you can apply those settings to a base figure so that you can recreate the character?

If so save a pose and include the morph settings option.

Otherwise:-

import poser<br></br>
scene = poser.Scene()<br></br>
fig = scene.CurrentFigure()<br></br>
for actor in fig.Actors():<br></br>
    for parm in actor.Parameters():<br></br>
        if
parm.IsMorphTarget():<br></br>
           
print actor.Name(),parm.Name(),parm.Value()

Thanks Phil.  No, this is for plain ol' safekeeping.  As I said, I have my data backed up twice, but last month one of my backup hard drives crashed just as I was about to do a new backup.  The thought occurred to me that if I didn't have the second backup, all characters and some 3D files (some saved since 1998) would be totally lost.  Should something bizarre happen like that, I'd sleep better if I knew I had a hard copy of all the morph settings (even magnet positions) should I need to start from scratch
It's a bad, bad feeling to think for a moment that the creations that have given you such joy are gone, and such a relief to know a copy is safe somewhere.

Ohhhh.  When you said bend, I thought you were referring to "Bend body parts" from the menu on top.  I checked "Bend" from the properties tab as shown and it worked.  Thank you very much!  By the way, I tried to upload from a PC.

I'm waiting to get the files from her.  I asked her about the polygon count and she says it's quite detailed.

Thanks Phil,
Send to:
pcooke@philc.net
?

Hi Phil,

I know the magnet zone was positioned to enclose the object.  In fact, I know the falloff zone was increased just to see if that would have any effect.  But I'll ask about bending and report back.

Update:  "Bend body parts" is enabled.

Yes, that's how I set them when I'm done with them.  They're still distracting to me though. But thanks for the  tip.

Quote - Way too simple so I hesitate to mention it, but just for fun, next time it hangs, try relaunching Poser without closing it first.    Clears some hang-ups for me.

I'll do it.  Thanks!

Quote - Every time I save it it won't reopen and Bryce 6.2 just closes.I've tried every way I can to simplify it but it won't save,I can save some things but not others.

Where are you finding Bryce 6.2?

Thank you winvdb.  That sounds like a very handy tool to have.  I'll try that.

As far as I've heard in the DAZ Bryce forum, the official word is that they are working on an update to

Bryce 6.1 and then going forward with plans for Bryce 7.  I think I read also that the update to Bryce 6.1 is coming soon.  When?

Soon.

How soon?

We'll soon see.

Thank you all for responding.  The first time I really noticed it, every single first render in either Poser 7 and/or Poser 8 hung.  I don't mind telling you I was really worried.  I kept closing and re-opening the programs (well I had to didn't I since they just froze) but the first render would hang.  So I decided to restart the computer, and that seemed to have had a positive effect, but it doesn't seem to be 100% reliable and I just wish I knew why it happened in the first place.

I thought about other programs running and causing conflicts.  I don't have Outlook, and usually only have Firefox and Thunderbird running at the same time...rarely Adobe Bridge and Photoshop CS3 too, but the most recent stalls were during sessions when the Adobe products were not active.  Just to satisfy my curiosity, I shut down Firefox and Thunderbird but the hang ups still persisted with Poser.

Luckily, the new computer reboots very quickly so restarting it is not quite the inconvenience that rebooting the previous computer was......is.

Quote - Where are you saving? Both WIndows 7 and Vista are very reluctant to let you place files in the Program Files (or Program Files (x86)) folders - instead, any attempt to write to those folders is shunted to UsersYouAppDataLocalVirtualStorepathyouweretryingtosaveto. AppData is a hidden folder, so if that is what is happening you will need to enable the display of hidden files and folders in the Folder Options applet in Control Panel (or just save to a location outside Program Files).

Interesting stuff:
First, I looked again at the folder the OBJ files were supposed to be in (Bryce 5.5 directory).  I'd already enabled all files visible in the folder options so I assumed that all files would be visible.  Then I saw the "Compatibility Files" option at the top of the Bryce 5.5 folder.  I clicked it, and many more files appeared, including the OBJ files.

So Windows 7 could see them.  Honestly, I'm not getting the concept of having to do something to see all files when All Files Visible is enabled already.  But at least there's a way for me to see that Windows 7 really does see files I've saved.

That option is not present in the Bryce 4 file dialog though, so that still meant that Bryce 4 could not access the files I now knew were there.  My next step was to disable the UAC completely.  I restarted the computer, launched Bryce 4 and looked in the file dialog, and there were the OBJ files...visible.

To test things, I made a new OBJ file in Poser 7 and saved it.  Bryce 4 could see it.  You'd think things were fine now, right?  I launched Poser 7 again, and for some reason it asked for my serial number and the serial number of a previous version of Poser.  Why?  My Poser 7 install was not an upgrade.  Is this because I chose to run it as an administrator?  And why all of a sudden?  Anyway, I looked high and low for my old Poser 4 serial number, but couldn't find it and finally decided to copy my runtime to an external hard drive, uninstall Poser 7, and do a clean reinstall.  The setup disc, which ran perfectly last week when I loaded Poser 7 onto the new computer, would not work.  I ended up copying the entire contents of the setup disc onto my external  hard drive and installing it again.  Then I copied over the runtime I'd saved previously.  It seemed to have worked, but now whenever I launch Poser 7 and try to save a file, it crashes.  I'll deal with that later.  I have Poser 8 and added Poser 7's runtime to it anyway.

I then went back to make sure that Bryce 4 could still see the OBJ files after disabling the UAC.  Now, it could not, even though I verified again that the UAC was disabled.  I was ready to cry and break things, but decided to continue with the suggestions all of you have given.  The first thing I did was direct Bryce 4's "Import" file dialog to the User/Me/App Data/Local folder where I found a duplicate Programs(x86) directory there.  I looked inside the appropriate folders there, and there, in all their glory, plain as day, were all the OBJ files I'd made and searched for.

While looking for more of an explanation about the Compatibility Files option in Windows 7's help option, I found yet another blurb about permissions, but what was really interesting was the mention of the Public files and how they were "open to all".  As a test, I saved a new OBJ file to my Public Documents file and then went into Bryce 4 to look for it.

There it was.

I'm still at a loss for the permissions problems when everything should have been ok.  I still might try to turn the UAC on again slightly and see if the OBJ files in the User/Me/App Data/Local folder and the Public Documents folder are visible to Bryce 4.  And I still don't understand Poser 7's weird behavior, but at least I can do what I need to do now.

To all of you...Thank You for all your input.  It's nice to know you're here.

Quote - windows itself should not care what is in the file, it simply uses the extension to pick a related application

Yes.  I know.

Quote - Any application should see the file, if the operating system can see it

and the application supports the file type

Quote - I would suspect an authority issue , possibly one app is creating files as administrator and the other app doesnt see them if its a user.  I suggest you look at the security on your old files and the two apps involved , and see if that sheds any light on it. That should be in object properties. If windows 7 has it, the admin event viewer might show some security issues.

All the files in question were created by the administrator (me) on the old computer and this one.  Permissions are granted for anyone to create, access, and modify files.  I checked the event viewer but there was nothing regarding a conflict of authorities.