What?!  Rebooting when a program runs out of memory is typical?  I don't think so.  I can put Cinema 4D at the "Out of Memory" limit on 32-bit Windows and simply close Cinema 4D and continue with whatever - including restarting Cinema 4D.  What that indicates is that Poser's memory handling is sod-off with dangling memory (memory that was never freed) which then must be reclaimed slowly by the OS.  This means that the more you do this, the less available memory off of the heap each time.  If this is actually a quirk of Vista then praise Jupiter that I never upgraded.  Hope it doesn't persist in Windows 7.

You'll get more information than you ever wanted from this set of html pages (zipped) from vk:

www.kuroyumes-developmentzone.com/poser/arc1to4beta.zip

It is too old to include the valueOpKey operation though.

With the amount of data that I need to backup lately, DVDs (even double-sided 8.2 GB) are too small.  My last backup would have required like 30 DVDs.  No more.  I have a 1TB external HD which is kept sealed in a closet.  For the cost of these, I could always get a second one as a double-secure backup system.  And the speeds (even using USB 2.0) are so much different than the 30+ minutes to write/verify a 4GB DVD that I won't be using DVD for archival backup any longer.  The flexibility (you can simply plug in the drive and copy files to it) is a plus as well.  Maybe when they come out with 250GB optical disc storage... prob'ly not.  ;0)

Only valueOpKey.  The rest have been around for a long time.

Remember that valuOpDeltaAdd is simply additive.  There are purportedly other operators (pulling up my notes):

            valueOpDeltaAdd
            valueOpDivideInto
            valueOpDivideBy
            valueOpTimes
            valueOpMinus
            valueOpPlus
            valueOpKey            (Poser 7)

The last is much more dynamic in that you can set up relationships between the master and slave dial values.  Together, these allow different types of mathematical relationships between the master and slave values.  With valueOpKey, for instance, you could set up a logarithmic or exponential relationship:

valueOpKey
            beginValueKeys
            valueKey           0 1
            valueKey           1 2
            valueKey           2 4
            valueKey           3 8
            valueKey           4 16
            endValueKeys
 

• valueKey [master value] [slave value]

valueOpDeltaAdd Figure 1 tiller:1 yrot deltaAddDelta 1.000000 valueOpDeltaAdd Figure 1 tiller:1 xrot deltaAddDelta 0.500000

A single master dial can control any number of slave dials
(and any single slave dial can be controled by any number of master dials).

Very doubtful.  The C4D SDK updates are rather deep from R11 to R11.5, including materials.  I need to update pretty much everyone of my C++ plugins because of them.  The Poser Pro 7 plugin will not likely work.

With NVidia drivers, you MUST uninstall the previous drivers before installing new ones.  Other than that, it sure does sound like hardware failure.  A couple of things that can extend the life of your computer:

If it is hotter than normal a lot (good to have either front panel or software temperature monitors for the CPU, GPU, and/or harddisks),  you may have inadequate cooling or need to clean.  Especially during the summer, you may want to keep your computer in a cooler room or increase the cooling even further.

If your computer is prone to collecting dust internally, airspray it out frequenty.  Dust can cause overheating and lead to hardware failure.  Put dust filters on your fans or use a dust cover to reduce collection.

Also keep a look out for insects/spiders.  I've had a spider crawl into a computer, short out a board circuit, fry itself, and kill the board.

Setting the goal to the BODY is historically (and practically) done so that transformations on the main 'figure' (in any IK system, not just Poser) would properly affect the goals as well.  Otherwise, when you translate the figure, the goal would stick where it is in world space.  It may also be possible to parent the goal to the first bone above the IK chain (have not tried this).  Having no parents (UNIVERSE) might be desireable at times, but not mostly.  Does this happen with your conformed figure IK, pjz99?

Unfortunately, I can see why conforming and IK on the conformed figure could be problematic.  During the conforming process, brutal and cruel things are done to the conformed figure's bones and transforms to conform initially.  Then the main figure takes control of the conformed figure for the most part thereafter.  Maybe you could set the InkyParent to the main figure's BODY (???).

I don't know of any render farm services that support Poser7 Pro.  You'll have to seek them out if any exist.

130,000 frames at 45 seconds = 68 days straight rendering.  It can be done, but I'd strongly recommend rendering to image files rather than to a video format to avoid restarting everytime the computer crashes or the electricity goes out.  Doing it on a single computer would probably significantly reduce the life of your cpu and harddisk - as rendering is processor intensive and saving to disk will have the platters spinning almost non-stop for the time involved.  Even two extra machines would reduce the load and save about 40 days (lol).

One word: Render-farm. :blink:

That's some great stuff there, TrekkieGrrrl!! :D

I love bentou!!!  wink. ;)  None of my local sushi restaurants come close to that creativity!

I think that the idea of a whopping big stimulus has some merit (as compared to Japan's 'lost decade' of multiple small stimuli) - but, as noted, it is pork and only going to help large corporations and businesses reap some comfort.  But it won't help the general populace and the world economy for many years to come in this form.  This is 'semi-trickle down economics' and, in any form, has never worked.

Giving piles of cash to already extravangantly rich people doesn't help anybody but the extravagantly rich (see: everytime this was done).  That should be very evident from the already failed TARP.  Yes, it was a 'tarp' that protected and covered large financial institutions and has had virtually no benefits besides.  By putting the money into the peoples' pockets and small/local governments, it will trickle up quickly as they stop clinching and get back to producing and spending.

I'm clinching.  Everything that I can save is being saved.  No more credit cards for the past year and a half.  No more online automated services (that includes Daz's PC membership).  No more spending on anything even remotely unnecessary.

Just before this mess hit me in July 2008, I was optimistically preparing to save up for a new vehicle (the current one is a 1999 gas-guzzling SUV).  I had just over $6000 in my checking account and expected it to go up reasonably from previous income.  That is as high as it ever got since.  So much for that....

I have to hope that this vehicle doesn't break down in any major way (and no accidents), that my health will remain substantial enough to avoid hospitalization and such - that nothing goes wrong that requires massive amounts of unavailable and unforeseeable finances to cover it.  Any hopes for a better year than the past decade have dissolved.  And I will not go back to the impoverishment of my life over twenty years ago after so much.

Let's not simply 'pray and hope' for better times.  We must 'demand and act' to secure them.

And the more hair therein? ;D

Those of you who don't see the catastrophe in progress, be assured that it is a major, major, major catastrophe of major proportions.  This is the WORST economic situation since the Great Depression of the early 1930s.  It has struck the entire planet and is accelerating (the dominoe effect).

The Icelandic government went 'out of business'.  In the US, we are now at at least 7.6% unemployment (that's over 15 MILLION!!! people).   I surmise that in the next year, we'll hit 9 or 10% (around 30 million jobless).  Circuit City is out of business.  I've seen business after business after business shut down here in Colorado.  Three of my friends' businesses are caput.  I've been done with my home-office business since about July, 2008 (the first to be hit were small and self-employed businesses).  Companies aren't laying off a few hundred here and there - they are laying off thousands (!).  GM might go bankrupt - never in history.  Nissan is laying off 10% of its planetary workforce!  Do these numbers sink in?

When you see 10,000 people applying for a few hundred jobs, get ready to tighten the belt, eat bread, drink water, and suffer for about the next three to five (or ten) years.

Those who don't feel it yet, you will.  Be prepared for suffering and more suffering. :)

Have fun,
Robert (the curmudgeon)