Well, I've spent another couple hours fighting this issue - I tried setting the render thread to 1 instead of 4 - didn't help.

I'll hold off on the reformat - I'm not terribly squeamish about doing a format/reload, but it is a pain in the butt to spend a week putting everything back on afterwards. And since some of you are saying it did not resolve the issue, it seems like a waste of time.

I've just opened a ticket with SM - we'll see if it does any good.

For the moment, I have Poser on my laptop, and so far it seems to be working OK - even with SR-1 installed. I gues I'll just have to use it on the laptop until this gets resolved - if it ever is.

I am very impressed with what Poser is capable of, but less than enthusiastic about my experience over the last week.

Quote - Rod, it sounds like you have a pretty sturdy system spec. Hair can seriously bog a system down. You should research some threads about rendeing and IDL in Poser 8 and get some render settings, then create a series of different render settings; basic, mid and final.

I'll often get everything set and bring the hair in last as it's the render hog (imo).

Hey, Ray! Good to hear from ya!

If I ever get these problems ironed out, I've got a cool idea for Dark Rain.....

I've been dorking around with this for a couple days, and have just about come to the same conclusion a couple other folks have - it's not really a problem with Poser, per se. I've installed Poser on my HP laptop running Vista Home Premium with 3 gigs of RAM and two 250-gig HDs. It renders a little slower than the system described above, but so far it does not exhibit the same lockup problems. I've done a few renders of The Girl at about 2000 pixels with no problems. I'll be trying a few more intensive things next week during my vacation.

I'm thinking I may end up doing a reformat-reload of my quad core sustem. It's been a little over a year since I built it, and it's probably time for a reload - it's acting a little squirrely on other applications as well.

Thanks, everyone for your input!! If anyone has further ideas or input, I'm all ears (or eyes..)

Rod

Thanks for the feedback - everyone here is great!

When I experience this problem, it doesn't seem to matter what I try to render - I tried to do a render of the blue mannequin guy, and it did the same thing - rendered until the progress bar reached the end, then just stopped. Last time it did this, I just left it alone for a couple hours to see if the render would finish - it didn't.

Then for some unexplaiable reason (at lest so far, it's unexplainable :-O), the darn thing will start working again for a while. It's freaky.

I did see something on SM's website about deleting the pref files, and letting Poser rebuild them - they could be corrupted. I'll try that tonight.

I really want to get this thing working right - it's just too cool when it works!

Thanks, everyone :-D

Was able to make ONE render since my last post. Tried every setting I could think of, both in Poser, and in my Nvidea control panel.....

Render - lockup
Render - lockup
Render - lockup

.....and on and on.....

It's pretty much useless now. :-(

OK - I figured it was something simple I'd missed.... I'll look at IK when I get home tonight (I'm 'supposed' to be working right now ;-O). Thanks, everyone!

The Hip is the main body part of Poser. It's the one that controls the orientation in Poser space and everything :) <

So the hips control the universe, eh? I could go somewhere really bad with that, but this is a family show...... ;-)

Rod

Jeeze - If it would have been a snake it would have bit me..........

Some lights are beginning to come on, though........

Quote -  Yoiu did a pretty good job putting her in that background, Rod! The lighting is a little off but considering how long (or how short) you've had Poser, this is nice!

Why, thankee! Actually, I was just playing around - truthfully, I didn't even try to match up the lighting. I just shot a quick photo of the east end of my computer room, and stuck her in there with PS-7. I did move one of the lights around to her backside to try to simulate light coming from the lamp, but other than that, I didn't do anything extra. I can certainly see how one could spend weeks on a complicated scene. I've got so many images in my head now, just waiting to get out!

Quote -  One thing to consider, please take it as a tip and nothing more: When in shoes, women can sorta balance on their toes. On bare feet.. Well.. at least I can't ;) Might be my feet malfunctioning though.. who knows? I've never figured out how to walk in high heels either L

But in short.. when she's not wearing shoes, be sure to put her feet in a natural position on the floor :) 

Yeah, that Vicky is such a kidder! I guess she was trying to imitate the little astronaut guy hanging next to her ;-D I was actually planning to put heels on her (in Photoshop since I haven't downloaded any shoes, yet), but I got lazy, and just let her tip-toe! My wife can't walk in those, either :-)

Quote - Juyst because it's called a "READ ME" doesn't meany it's mandatory. Look at poor Alice when she drank whatever was in the DRINK ME! bottle!

And that was after the mushrooms..... Brings to mind the old Jefferson Airplane song.... Now, where did I put that bottle....?

Waves at Bingo

Thanks for the input! I'm having a blast with this, and all the great folks here!

Best,
Rod

Quote - The skirt handles are transparent. I've included a graphic - I hope it helps.

Laurie

Indeed it did! I found the stealthy little rascals.

Thanks, Laurie!

Quote - after all the 'scale left glute' and 'bend 14 degrees...nah, 13.5...nah...13.271...that's perfect'; I should actuallly read the readmes...;)

LOL! Oh, I'm supposed to actually read those?

One of my favorite sayings back in the day, when I saw a pretty girl, was 'She's built like I designed her myself!' Thanks to technology, now I can :-D

Quote -  Ah so it was a free dress. Should have checked :) It looks really nice.

And I kinda thought it might be a case of body handles. But of course if you don't know about them, you won't look for them either :)

Yeah, I'm a cheapskate :-D Some of these websites are better than Walmart. I did find those stealthy handles, finally after reading the responses.

I like your little alien guy waving at us!

Our lovely model is wearing April Dress by Evilinnocence; hairstyle is Felicity by Oro_Snake. Makeup and post-production by me in Photoshop. Sounds like a fashion magazine.....

Thanks again! You all are awesome!

Hey, thanks, everyone!

Yeah, I see the handles, now, sneaky little rascals hiding down there...

That's what you get when you stay up waayyy too late fooling around with this Poser thing. I finally went to bed after I saw a Progressive ad on TV, and started visualizing Flo tricked out in Goth...

BTW, if you think the dress was bad, you should have seen what I did to poor Vicky in the hair room. It takes 'punk' to a whole new level.... I guess I need to take this Poser one step at a time instead of jumping around all over the place!

Thanks again!

Quote - Welcome Rod! 

You should take a look at  www.aerysoul.com

They have some of the best quality poser items featured on this website and Daz and they also have a very large tutorial section which is very easy to understand! 

Cheers!

Jadealis

Thanks, Jadealis, for the Welcome and the link! I'll run over and check it out.. At this point, I need all the tuts I can get my grubby mitts on. I'm having a blast with Poser, and all the 3D sites!

Best,
Rod

Quote - Definitely not in the Poser root. :)

I have all my external runtimes in My Documents, separated out by major figures (e.g. V4, M4 etc) and by categories (Props-Animals, Scenes-Furnishings). Just be sure that the folder inside is actually called "runtime," open your containing folder (e.g. V4) and unzip away. DAZ's exe files are similar.

Then, you'll need to add your runtime in Poser. (In your library palette, click the little + sign with the running man, add library, and browse to your containing folder, i.e. the folder one level up from "runtime.")

OK - That sounds simple enough, even for what's left of my mind ;) Thanks!! I've got two 320-gig drives on this machine, so it should take a while to fill it up. Or maybe not....

That's one question down, only 3,867 more to go....

thanks again!

Rod

Quote -  be careful of all the lovely free stuff, and keep it in a separate runtime to all your bought stuff, as one day you might want to sell your art.  Free stuff will often have restrictions such as credit the maker, or not for commercial use at all.  so don' t mix it with your other content.
Love esther

I think that's a great idea.

I'm a little hazy on this whole runtime thing, though (I just posted a question regarding runtimes). I'll probably have lots of questions on the commercial/copyright/intellectual property angle at some point, but that's a can of worms I'm going to leave in the cupboard until I have half a clue on what the heck I'm doing ;-)

About 99.9 % of the stuff I've downloaded is still waiting patiently on an external drive to be unzipped until I get the half clue mentioned above. I'll be using it primarily for my own practice and entertainment. What I hope to be able to do at some point will be to create my own characters / props / clothes, and so on.

I can see I've found a goldmine of knowledge on this forum, and a lot of great folks!! Thanks for the warm welcome!!!

Rod