jennblake posted at 12:04PM Sat, 09 November 2019 - #4369559

Hello.

You no longer have to un-register/disable your license key. You just need to be sure and download the installer from this information:

We launched a required update to Poser 11.2 for all Poser 11 and Poser 2014 GameDev users.

Below you will find a link to download as well as a link to the article with more details:

Poser Download

Information

Please be sure to download Poser 11.2 from the download link supplied above and install directly from that file. The old Smith Micro download manager will not be able to update your product.

Regards,

JennBlake

Thank you.

I checked out some of Darrin's tuts. They seem pretty good, but his voice is way too soothing- I keep nodding out. Didn't find quite what I was looking for yet, but I did learn some stuff between naps!

I don't think that's right. The update is 11.2.89 and it's what everyone gets at this point. As for what's in it as opposed to 11.2.272, nobody seems to know.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

FVerbaas posted at 11:13PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366139

Then you are facing a different problem than I had. I just had the issue with La Femme when I used the 'SSS with refracted eyes' material from the library in combinatio with the preview render set for SuperFly. It disappeared when I selected the FireFly preview.

I don't seem to have two different previews. Just a preview mode. When I add the SSS with refracted eyes material, it shows up black with a white dot in the middle. I can't seem to make that go away with the same tricks that work on the normal eyes.

FVerbaas posted at 10:31PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366133

I had same with the refracted eyes shader on a 1070GTX. I contacted developers and I understood from them it is an issue with the openGL previewer for SuperFly (Poser uses dedicated OpenGL previewers for SF and FF ) currently not being able to correctly show the nodes that SF needs to do the refracted eyes. Little can be done there. They render correctly but the preview is horrible.

Do you really need the refracted eyes? Render once with this setting and once with the SSS without the refracted eyes. You can then see if the difference is worth the trouble.

I don't need the refracted eyes- I only want to render in Preview. The default eyes are refracted- I don't know which eyes to use that are not. I tried substituting a couple different eyes from the materials catalog but they didn't do anything unless I changed the shader node as above, and then they seem to overlay the existing eyes rather than replace them. Maybe I'm just using the wrong one- I think I tried the procedural sss and simple pbr, but didn't bother with the ones that say 'refracted' in the title. I also tried the ones from the Lexi morph, they seem to work better.

DarksealStudios posted at 8:37PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366102

I really just hate hate hate making promo ad renders. I think it comes down to me not having any set peices that look nice. Like... a normal room/house/furniture/etc... I dunno, the more I think about it the more it exhausts me. I've posted it on my gumroad for now. I think I need to that a break from her and do something else for a minute. I doubt I can post the link, I don't even know if talking about it is allowed here...

For what it's worth, the renders you've been putting up are good, I think some of them could be used in promos and ads with accompanying text. There are a lot of really bad renders advertising stuff here, yours are much more attractive. Doesn't hurt that you have a sexy product, of course, but the renders support the product nicely.

Woot! Actually, having messed with it a bit now, I find that all that is necessary is to disconnect the nodes connected to 'alternate diffuse' and change diffuse to black. That one change gets rid of the white for both eyeball and tearline (done to each, that is). Then if you want to render in superfly or firefly, just reconnect the nodes.

randym77 posted at 7:41PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366088

Do you have any scene with your tweaked version of La Femme saved, so you could see what it is?

Also, the advanced search here lets you seach by user name, which might help you find the original advice, if you got it here. Maybe this?

https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2848213&page_number=11#msg4359866

Yes, that's it! Thank you! Now bookmarked, screenshotted and saved, and a note taken.

I think some setting got changed when I upgraded, even though it shouldn't have affected my LaFemme Pro, because any scene using her has the same problem. Maybe because I changed locations for the libraries, because no amount of new installs would make Pauline, Paul and Roxy work until I did- conflict with something about the Smith Micro folder, I dunno. Must have lost the connection to that material fix. This should make it right.

Glitterati3D posted at 7:35PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366090

HKHan99 posted at 8:29PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366076

I think that Rhia474's answer or something very like it should be a permanent sticky at the top of the forum, and all the appropriate 'tech' fora as well, with a title that tells what problem it solves. I'm sure Tiny isn't going to be the last Poser user coming back from an absence to find they can't open Poser. The more accessible that message is, the less grief will be generated.

You just haven't been around here long enough.........no matter how many times we type the same thing with the same answers to the same questions, the forum is like ReadMEs and the User Manual.

No one reads them FIRST, then starts ranting.

You don't hear from the people who do read them. If posting a sticky about this solves the problem for a dozen people, I'd say it's well worth doing. I understand why people would be pissed if their purchase suddenly stops working, and the faster they can be given a solution the better.

randym77 posted at 6:49PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366077

Weird. For me, La Femme does not have white eyes in preview, using either OpenGL or SreeD. Though SreeD looks a lot darker overall.

Maybe updating your graphics card drivers would help? Did La Femme always have white eyes for you, or only since you upgraded?

Always, but somebody told me a fix that had to do with tweaking something on LaFemme, and it worked- until the upgrade, by which time I forgot how to do it. For this reason I don't think it's a driver problem.

I think that Rhia474's answer or something very like it should be a permanent sticky at the top of the forum, and all the appropriate 'tech' fora as well, with a title that tells what problem it solves. I'm sure Tiny isn't going to be the last Poser user coming back from an absence to find they can't open Poser. The more accessible that message is, the less grief will be generated.

nerd posted at 5:44PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4366053

The not-Pro version of LaFemme included with Poser doesn't have all the extra goodies. Manuals, morphs. Think of LaFemme Pro kind of like a plus pack for her.

I have the pro version, have the morphs, but not the manual. Dunno why, but I can't find any trace of it ever having downloaded.

SamTherapy posted at 5:43PM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4365994

This is the easiest way:

LOL. Dude, did you render that just for this thread?

Apparently Sketch and the Comic Book filters from the little pop up window do not work with SreeD. So I get eyeballs and give up the rest. Also, in SreeD, Cartoon is just a silhouette with grey eyebrows and lashes, and Cartoon With Line simply adds a black outline, including for teeth and so on. Not a very useful solution for me.