Well, the only library frustration I am having is actually moving the slider.

Bagginsbill, is there any way to make the hotspot for the slider wider than 1 pixel?  It is very difficult for my mouse to grap the slider & move it up or down.

Well, my Poser rig is a 1st Gen MacPro w/15Gig of Ram & I run both PoserPro & Poser 8 with no issues.

There is no amount of love or money that would have me willingly load Windows on any computer on my network.

Mike, I used to be a computer builder, but as I have said before, my time is valuable. 

When people ask me why I have a MAC instead of a PC, I give a very, very simple demonstration that doesn't even need a computer.

I bought a bluetooth adapter for my backup G5 Powermac.  The adapter works with both MACs and PCs.  The instructions for the PC go over three pages (how to install drivers reboot, etc.)  The MAC instructions:

Plug the adapter into a USB port.

And that is why I use a MAC.

Of course, if someone comes up with something better, I'll drop OS X in a heartbeat.  I am loyal to my workflow process, not Steve Jobs and his "Reality Distortion Field".

Based on what I have seen over the past 20+ years, "better" will never come from MicroSoft.

I would ask a couple of questions.....

How much tech support do you plan on providing to your cousin?  If you don't want to be stuck with that, get them a MAC.

Does your cousin value their time?  If so, get your cousin a MAC.

Have you compared total cost of ownership?,  If you have, you will see why you should get a MAC.

Based on what I saw when we moved from 16bit programs to 32bit programs, it will take a number of years to make that move.  Most of the folks on this thread will have to dump their current computer to take advantage of this.  I won't.

My Mac is over 3 years old.  It can take up to 32Gigs of ram (currently at 15Gig, what swap file?) & with a couple of aftermarket products, I can internally install up to 10 2TB hard drives. I am fully ready for a 64 bit future.

Initial cost was a bit more than a Dell box or a homebrew, but total cost of ownership is much lower that a windows box.  Even moreso when I take into account that my time is valuable.

Have you ever noticed that the only good version of windows is the one that hasn't been released?

Well, I'd like an OSX version myself.  I only have 2 windows programs (XDresser & MM) and I'd really like to let them (and XP) go.

I gotta go with everyone else.

1 monitor for the scene
1 monitor for the palettes + any documentation I may have pulled up.

Dual 28 inch monitors are the way to go.  And they are cheap at compusa.com

I thought it was a glitch & I ignored it.

oh well, I got a copy of P8 anyway.

I can't post until I get home tonight, but last night, I just moved every last palette to 1 screen & left the room on the other.

1912 x 1052 is nice.

I can actually see all of my Dystopia stuff without having to move the camera.

Some folks would complain if they were hung with new rope.

Quote - If Poser 8 is not a full 64 bit application. I'm not very likely to buy it. I'll pick up Daz Studio 3 Advanced instead. Why buy a I7 920 quad core/Gigabyte GA58 Extreme/Windows 7 64 bit system (Which I'm working on.), and run a 32 bit graphics program on it, that will not use the full memory, and power of the system. It's insane.

Just how many 64 bit programs do you already have?

The transition from 32 to 64 bits is going just as fast as the transition from 16 bit to 32 bit.  I.e. not very fast at all.

Quote - Will WW analyze altered rigging? I assume it just trusts its support packs.

I think it does.  When I have a character, I convert all of the morphs into a full body morph (FBM) & have WW analyze it.  When I convert clothing, I tell the program to include FBMs, & it puts my FBMs into the clothing & voila!

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RAMWolf

i get some of why Poser is so populer.I like Poser.it's easy and fun.

i do not get why dynamic hair and cloth is not catching on more thou.

But each and every upgrade from all the 2D 2.5 3D app's makes modeling your own characters easier & easier.

When I started with Poser 5, my system simply wasn't up to working w/dynamic hair. (Poser actually drives my computer purchases nowadays.)  By the time I worked my way up to my current computer (Mac Pro), I had a LOT of .hr hairs & didn't really see a reason to start all over.

Dynamic cloth took a while because I couldn''t find a tutorial that I understood.  That has since changed & I have conquered the cloth room.  I would move onto the hair room, but right now I am concentrating on learning lighting.

The background render feature in PoserPro  takes care of the "where's my render" issue.  Once I pose something, I send it to background render & start working on another image.

Very cool feature & makes PoserPro worth owning.

Quote - Anyway - it is still in P8, and I don't know to remove it. I operate at 1920x1280 and with the new layout in P8, I feel like my pose window is too big. I don't need it so big, but it's huge.

I am running that on both of my monitors & I don't think it is too big at all.

Oh, and thanks for all of the work you did for the OSX version, I really appreciate it.

If you get Wardrobe Wizard, you really will get a "Make Art" button.

And it does "Make Art".