Thanks so much.

Randy

Thanks everyone. I apprecaite all of you so much.

You know, I am not terribly skilled with computers.

I write reports, send mail, and such, but this is certainly pushing my boundries as far as program and computer smarts go. So please be patient with me. Let me reread all you have written, look up things, and think about what you have said, so I can approach even a small degree of decent understanding.

Sincere Thanks.

Randy

Hello Everyone.

I am back again.

Thanks to everyone for your help and advice. Before I do anything I want to ask you if you think I should re-install P8 so as to eleminate the many incorrect paths in it now. And after that follow your recommendations.

Randy

Here is the path:

C:Program FilesSmith MicroPoser 8RuntimeLibraries!DAZVictoria 4

This (Victoria 4) then contains a load of items such as rHand. 

No images appear in the opened P8 program.

There is another path, strangely:

C:Program FilesSmith MicroPoser 8RuntimeLibrariesCharacterDAZ PeopleRuntimelibraries!DAZVictoria 4

And this also leads to items such as rHand.

I suspect there is repetation, possibly because I installed V4 in a number of ways in my attempts to get it to show up in P8.

I will have to go now for work purposes.

I will return here tomorrow.

Sincere thanks to everyone.

Sorry... I don't know how to do a screen capture.

And it is drive c.

Sorry... it is C drive.

Acadia,

That path is:

Poser 8/Runtime/Libraries/Characters/Daz People

There is also a path from the same Libraries just indicated:

Libraries/!DAZ/Victoria 4

Yes, that is !DAZ, with a "!" in front of DAZ. Inside this is what appears to be the needed Victoria 4 file of 10 Mega Bites. But I can't get a link to that when I open P8 and go to the library. It shows nothing downloaded and no new figures.

Are there other files that load V4 in P8?

What is Victoria 4 Base Power Loader? Is that needed to load V4 through the Library?

Thanks again.

Randy

It is XP Professional os.

Hi Acadia.

I went through that very process when I installed V4 one time, using P8 of course.

I will check on that again.

Hi WandW.

I can't clearly remember, but I think I used "Poser Directory," the 3rd choice, as I thought that was probably the best to use as the "traditional" option would work in a most straight forward way... after all if it was "traditional" I thought it was what most used, had no problems, and such.

I am the only person using my computer, PC, with XP Professional os. What do you think? Did I use the best alternative for installing P8 ??

I suspect I might have to delete and reinstall P8... what do you think?

Thanks.

Randy

First, I want to thank everyone for trying to help me through your information and posts. I sincerely, deeply, appreciate all you are trying to do for me... and, of course, I feel so stupid... honest.

So I will tell you what I did last... of course, I re-read all the posts, then as markschum stated, I installed and made sure it was along this path... RuntimeLibrariesCharacterDAZ People 

There was no problem with the installation, and initialization tool place.

Then I opened P8 and the Library showed no indication of that download. There is no indication of anything new in the Library at all, no download or new character. I used "Explore" to search C drive for the material in P8, and the V4 material is there.
But it will not appear in the library, and so I cannot yet load it to use.

I know I have to be doing something wrong... I just can't figure what it is, even with all your help... some day I will laugh at this :)

Randy

Hi everyone.

I downloaded again - I am really really glad that thing is free - and picked the path directly to P8 runtime for installation. Installation and initialization told me it was fine... so I opened P8 and looked in the library... again, no V4, no item in Downloads.

I did a search and no V4.

I have tried so many different ways to do this... nothing works so far.

I haven't tried starting a new file because so far, I can't trust the steps I have already gone through. 

Well, my P8 content is in Poser, and I think that is the default place for it.

I didn't know I could put my Poser content (You mean my library?) anywhere else.

So how do you devise a separate content library for V4 stuff, and keep it connected to P8 for easy access, through the Library I assume.

Thanks.

Randy

Thanks, everyone. There is so much help here.

I tried to move the V4 material manually into the P8 runtime (Still don't know what a runtime is or why it is called that) and unfortunately when I opened P8 to look for Victoria in the Library I could find ONLY the material labelled Poser 8.

I suspect I will have to reinstall P8 again.

Yes, also noticed that the instructions for installing the V4 is to load it into P8... so it seems that dosen't work. I have to directly inticate that it should install the P8 runtime... is that right?

Thanks again... Just another happy day learning :)

Randy

Thanks to both of you.

I followed the instructions but I will now put it in the proper file manually if I can.

I recently purchased Poser 8 as essentially my first program of this kind to learn.

I was confused to see Andy there all the time, and it took me some time to find the Delete Figure botton, I think it's called.

He was frustrating even though I could use him to learn about a few features. But I actually thought I could put things like a face on him, and had no luck with that.

Reading the manual helps, but it is terribly inadaquate in many ways for me. I guess that is why I have to ask questions here, and why I am learning so slowly.

So all I can say is this...  I read the manual, and go back to it way too often I think, but if it wasn't for the good people here, I honestly would probably have given up             on Poser 8 as way too frustrating to make sense of.