For these answers and more, why not go to Hogsoft's website? (You get 1 guess as to its URL... 2 clues: It begins with www. and ends in .com ;-) Or if you have Hogsoft's Utility Hub running, just click and pick any one of the links. Seriously, if you think PBooost was even average you are going to LOVE PBooost II. And if you liked PB, then ... I was skeptical initially that the new thumbnail driven PB II would be just a glossy upgrade. All snazz and no real value. Who needs all that, to slow down the interface? Well was I seriously wrong! (apologies, Howard!) It's not any slower, and the thumbnails are truly useful, and the entirely new PB II is so much easier to use, it is inconceivable to go back to the old one now. Examples: - You don't even have to switch to the PB II window to change banks, you can do it right from the Hub. - A 1- (One-) click bank switch. - Can't remember where a particular product is? Then view any number of banks/folders, without switching banks, or even use the search feature. - So you've found the item that you want to load? Then load it - no need to go back to Poser and find it all over again in the Poser Library. (Even in P4!) - You can install new products way easier by doing it in PB II - you can see which banks are in play, and if you want, say, a .pz2 in Camera, then just go ahead and drag it there from any folder (or even straight from WinZip) to PB II, and it will verify that it's a legal switch, and change the extensions for you on-the-fly! - Need to move something between banks, no problem, drag-n-drop; need to rename, no problem; need to see source and target folders at the same time, no problem, open as many PB II windows as you need. - Multiple Runtimes? You can switch between them, or have them all open. - PB II doesn't run in the background anymore when you are not running Poser, but it can be called up from the Hub at any time. Honestly, the step up from the original PB to PB II is nearly as big as the step up to the first PB - it has that much potential to impact your workflow.

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Agreed, No. But Hogsoft has a free utility (PC only as it runs outside of Poser) called Crosstalker that will do the work for you on-the-fly during posing. Select the character after determining its figure number, load the clothing via Crosstalker and use the generated version with the right figure number.

Crosstalker is free because Jim Burton, not Howard invented the technique - or rather re-invented it it would seem, somewhere between Charles and Les ;-)

Crosstalker has the corollary built in too, you can use it to stop crosstalk on a clothing item when you don't want to.

Render mostly nudes? Crosstalker is still very useful - extending the technique for stopping clothes interacting with a character, and you can prevent 2 characters from interacting / crosstalking too. Note this doesn't cover Daz Inj/Rem figures - for that you need FII. Later for that one... and not free. (Hey, the man's got to eat ;-)

And best of all Crosstalker uses Hogsoft's P4PyE (Poser 4 Python Emulation) so you can have Crosstalker work in Poser 4 as well as Poser ProPack / P5 / P6.

If you are using OpenGL and you do not have the latest Logitech drivers, then you could have problems. They added a feature related to game play, and for several revs of the driver there was no way to disable it - which you needed to do for any OpenGL app! My driver is 9.97, but different mouse, so number may vary. But you are looking for "Disable acceration in games", on the Motion panel in mine, and you want to UNcheck it.

PBooost II does, er, will, handle locks in a more sophisticated way. But the actual locking is caused by NT-based Windows + Poser. Windows NT, 2K and XP do not allow you to delete any file that some other application already has open, or any file for which another application has a PARENT FOLDER open. Poser goes bananas when it can't find a texture - it starts at the beginning of the texture folder and proceeds to open every single folder it contains until it finds the right one, and LEAVES THEM ALL OPEN! (Well actually it does close the correct one when/if it finds it!). A tool that indiscriminately force closes any file/folder would solve the problem I guess - ideally you'd want one that would only close folders in the Poser texture folder. I'm guessing ernyoka's crash was because it closed a texture file being used in the render, so when Poser went back to it to get the full-size, unreduced texture, expecting it to be open ... One thing to remember/check though, is that any other program open in the right (wrong) part of the Poser runtime can cause problems. I can't count the number of times I've had an "unexplained" lock (a CRPro'd runtime, and Poser behaving itself) and later realized that I'd got a library folder open in Windows Explorer - or P3dO. Nobody's fault but my own. (Expect PBooost II to metaphorically wag its finger at you if you make that particular mistake ;-)

I second Anton's opinion. Poser does not appear to be programmed to respect the absolute 2GB address limit imposed by Windows. So when it hits it, all bets are off. The failure mode will be unpredictable, but potentially spectacular. The longer and/or harder you push Poser, the more often you need to save and restart. Sadly, each version of Poser gets worse in this respect, as more code with the same gawd-awful memory management (a ka none) means less room for WIP.

Congrats Jim! Even at the new price, it's still such a deal for the quality of modeling, that it ought to be #1!!! I do really hope that you can make this model take off ...

As Chris says. Poser scales the texture down considerably for preview use. As part of the (necessarily for slow old computers) quick-and-dirty scaling down process, the pixels near the edge of the seams get logically OR'd with pixels outside the seams. Ways to lessen the effect are to use smaller textures sizes - if small enough no scaling down is required, and thus not pixel creep occurs (e.g. standard Poser 4 charater textures). 'Course rendered quality will be down. Extend image a little beyond borders, for the ideal it should be from the edge of the corresponding seam! But you can mitigate the effect by simply flooding the unused part of the UV Map with a color very close to that used on near the offending seams - or that of the one that bothers you most. Should be able to achieve this, perhaps even with blending, in Photoshop, with some careful masking steps.

Yep, still Download "N/A" after Order Confirmation and Shipment email... A little OT question: Has anyone ever had CP work correctly first time, ever?

The file distibuted by CL referred to by MissNancy was included in the manual which was written by Nosfiratu - so there are one and the same. William, if you don't have P6 you'll find it in an Appendix for P5 as well.

Yep, got in - ToolmakerSteve seems to have called it correctly. Wait until their server has lost it's mind ( a few hours perhaps, I let a day go by). Then Login BEFORE making any attempt to download. Then it should open a new browser window and then things work fine. If you attempt to download without being logged in, their server is going to harbor a grudge - at least for a few hours ;-) This was with IE 5. (Yeah, yeah, I know, but I never use IE for anything but WinUpdate - or until I encounter a site is designed this M$-myopic. Open source with conditions I understand, but open source which is only available using proprietary browsers is well, strange ... )

You might want to check out his own website www.hogsoft.com. But yes, CRPro II works well, and can handle PP and P6 runtimes, either separtely or together. It is essential code if you want a clean Runtime. (CRPro II finds a large number of issues with P6 Runtime - out-of-the-box!)

Same access problem here. I'm logged in (menu displays Logout option), click the Download button, and I'm greeted with Login screen (menu displays Login option). But note I'm not logged out!!! Click on any main menu selection - WITHOUT loging in again, and I'm back logged in (menu displays Logout option)! Weird. This is using IE or Mozilla. Seems Open Source is limited not only to IE, but to just Internet Explorer v6? My hunch is theytrack that you got here only from the Download page, using some code that only works on IE6. Bummer...

I gave up on the value box. Not saying it can't be done, just gave up looking. Thing is not everything is converted to the new Poser 5+ "XML" format. Lots of stuff is still called as hard-coded pre-P5 executables. I assumed that the value box was one of these. So no easy way to customize. (Hope soemone can show me I was wrong ;-)

Also check out my dial removing trick - it's here in Tech, but much easier to find on PoserPros, under Poser 5, it's one of the stickies at the top.

What this tweak does is to remove the image of the dials completely - you know what you have to do, so why do you need a picture, or rather, dozens of pictures, to tell you ;-) Poser's UI dissociates hot spots from buttons, it's all done with coordinate hot zones (a la HTML imagemaps). So I just relocated the dial's hot zone to be over the NAME of the parameter rather than the dial. You can scroll left-right (or up-down) just like before, just do it over the name.

Advantage? Well I reduce the height assigned to each parameter now that the dial image is gone. Less vertical space required per parameter. My goal was to get more parameters on a screen, so I had less scrolling to do. But equally the extra vertical space could be used for a larger font. Ideally you'd want to change the font to a condensed one (more height, less width), but my attempts to change fonts have not been entirely successful.