Quote - ...that also includes my older Poser Pro which, also, no longer recognizes .wav files. Even the voice files are designed for Poser. MIMIC works fine as does DazStudio....so I can't figure this one out. Before I report this to SmithMicro...I thought I'd ask here.  Thank you, in advance, for your time and advice.

Hi!

I´ve got the same problem in Poser 7 after rebuilding my system on my new PC with Windows Vista Ultimate. First I thought about an installation problem of P7 but after updating to Poser 8 I have still the same problem. No standard .wav is recognized and I got the message that Poser isn´t able to load this file types. Weird thing! Anyone an idea?

Mimic works fine for me too.

@toulouse2k

Any infos since you posted your question?**
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Thanks for any hints and all have a Merry Christmas.

Jochen

Quote - Jochen,

Grusse Dich! Ich habe Jahrenlang in Bonn gelebt - nur eine Stunde von Aachen!
In regard to display issues: pls. try to upgrade your nVidea driver - it usually solves the problem. I have nVidea GEforce 8600 GT and have just upgraded the driver - it makes all the difference.
In regard to problems with getting things right:
we are about to release a new version that has some significant improvements - it's a free upgrade to all FS users.
Laslo

Hallo Laslo!

Wir hatten ja schon per Email das Vergnügen :o)))))

I already had the latest NVIDIA-Drivers and the display issuses are still alive and healthy. As I told you that I work with 3D applications that are about some years old and I never had such issues there and b.t.w. no other application (Poser, Lightwave, Studio and so on) makes me such trouble like Faceshop actually does. I updated my graphics card last year to a Nvidia 7600 GS and everything works fine for me up to "Faceshop". From up my purchase I couldn´t use it well and I waiting for your update, hoping to get rid of the stupid errors I have constantly. Otherwise it will be absolutely useless for me. I am just working on a character where I planned to use Faceshop as little aid and now I managed the face morphs  with the traditional "turn the dial method" like I´ve done before, which is for me, by the way, actually easier to create like in Faceshop....;o)

Looking forward to test your new version.

Regards

Jochen

Hi!

At first, English isn´t my native language. So sorry if something in my words could be confusing. Hope you´ll understand.

I purchased FS a few days ago and sorry....I am very dissapointed because working with this tool isn´t as easy as it is promised and I am no beginner in 3D graphics and Poser. Especially regarding the issues I got because of hard errors in the 3D display (Palit Nvidia 7600 GS with latest drivers, WInXP, 2Gb RAM, 2,4 GHZ CPU). No other 3d application has any problems with this combination. Sometimes the preview in the right window shows only black or white flat shape of the head object and you are not able to adjust anything. This happen the most if I try to load a saved project, a in FS premade head object or when I want to refine a previous made morph with a new photo. So you are not able to do anything more. The basic procedure and the first run up to the first result work and it is no way to reply what causes this errors. For me it´s in that state absolutely useless and not worth the 50 bucks I payed, because I can get no satisfying result in the first run and refining is not possible because of the mentioned display issues.

Next is the on one hand nifty way to adjust the 3d head to the perspective in the picture but less ability to get it really fit. After several boring attempts in placing the points as accurate as possible on a face that is shown nearly in front (of course not exact symmetrical), I was not able to adjust the 3d head to the given perspective. Why is it not possible to make small fine adjustments to the 3D head in the right window after the point placing procedure?
Okay maybe I need a little pratice here, but now I it is how already mentioned in a post in this thread it could be faster to load a morph target in my favourite 3d application and do the morphs there on a template or work with the dials in Poser (and this works with a little patience too).
Another issue for me is the exported texture. On the first look it seems really nice but if you open it in Photoshop...hey guys..the postwork which has to be done to get rid of and correct the errors is as much work than creating it for myself from scratch, photo resource and a texture template for the used figure.

So, what can I do....keep it away and waiting for further improvements, trying more and more until I will get nuts or continue working with often useless results and making corrections in the normal way that means as much efforts as doing the whole project from scratch? Sorry, maybe that I am alone with this experience, I am nittpicking but for this price this tool should work without display issues and crashes. B.t.w. I really know the click-one-button-art.making-tool (didn´t expect to get one with FS) isn´t possible but a tool should be a helper during workflow.

Regards

Jochen

For V4 I use the Realskinshader scripts in P6. which  easy to adapt to other figures than the basicly included ones. How to do this is described detailed in the special forum. Adresses are to find on the product site of Realskinshader. This might be an alternative solution to the Realism Kits.

Regards

Jochen

Wow....a lot´s going on here and I wonder where you guys and ladies got the time to make such a lot of impressive works. That´s an art too ;o) My mail account gets flooded in the past few days. I think for me it has two effects. I learn not only by being commented (hey I´ve uploaded nothing in the past few days and my older works are waiting ;o)) but also by reading the very competend critiques on other images.
One thing more, please patience....English isn´t my native language and in some cases it´s a little bit difficult for me to explain my thoughts in a foreign language (but I learn here a lot too, that´s the third effect by hanging around in this thread) and if you found errors...keep them ;o) Thx.

Regards

Jochen

Please give me some glasses, I can see no nbeep s or a*****beeep in this picture, only a shaded area that could be look like really wll formed  beeeeps . Sorry for my babarian european attitude to such weird, exaggerated views about natural facts of live.

Quote - I made a try to make Lucy Liu, see the pic

That´s my attempt, done with a V4 but completely without makeup.

Hey folks,

the first time I´ve got a lot of mails and it´s no junk but infos about the people added me to favourites or they uploaded something into the galley ;o) Good thing, wonder how to manage this...lol

@Acadia

Thanks for this link....

Regards

Jochen

Quote - I have my 17inch LCD hooked up to the laptop and there is a significant difference in color on everything between the two screens. I get the color that I like on the laptop screen but when i look at it on the other monitor its got this yellow almost aged look to it. I don't know which one is is closer to what others see but noticing the difference makes me check my final results on both monitors before uploading now LOL

Have you tried to calibrate you monitors? I. e. Adobe Gamma, which comes with Photoshop, is a good way to get a basic calibration.

Regards

Jochen

Thanks Karen,

I just received a big bunch of mails from here :o))))))) Now let´s explore the art. :o)
B.t.w. an impressive list. Thanks for that. It´s a good helper to find all the people.

If I had worked myself through all galeries,  I would  probably get more grey hair than I actually
have ;o) I do what I can......

Regards

Jochen

Hi!

Good idea! I think I like to take part too. Only in getting critics and suggestions I can improve my work. I only have the problem that I´m someone who thinks more technical and not so much as an artist. This means, give me a detailed idea what you want to be visualized, and I do it for you and this now about for 20 years. But I think I have a lack in getting creative ideas for myself according to composition, mood and other things art means. So I can only give technical suggestions.
Sometimes it´s more frustrating for me to get no response than negative critics, even to my products, which are sold for my opinion quiet good for this first attempts but I get only response from a fraction of customers (one does it twice...how can this be able?).

Thanks and regards

Jochen

Hi!

My first : Atari 800 XL with Datasette in 1984
And the the one and only (not alone for Kids) Amiga 500 up to Amiga 4000 in 1993
At work MAC, SGI and PC and at home only PC (with an Amiga Emulator in it ;o)))))))).

Thanks to the Amiga. If I never had this computer I would not do what I do today. I made
Computergraphics and Animations on Video (oh wow this is nearly 20 years ago) at
home in times the PC´s had only a beeping sound and 16 colors together on screen. ;o)

Regards

Jochen

Hi Clint! Thanks a lot :o)))) Now it works. Kind regards Jochen