hborre, thanks for responding. I'm confused. From the Pose category? You mean the pose library? Click the "+" to create a new pose? In the popup that appears there is an option to "select subset" but I can only choose body parts, not specific morphs.

Yes. I know how to do that. But as you mentioned, I might need to adjust the pose after the fact. Is there away to make a save a morph change without having to adjust the current pose? For instance, let's say I make some changes to the morph dials to make the character fat. Is there a way to make the character fat (according to my changes) while still in any pose? Can I just change and save the fat morphs but not the position poses?

1. I have the same problem with the library not showing thumbnails intermittently. The vertical bar that you can slide to the left to reveal the thumbnails gets pushed all the way to the right sometimes, hiding the thumbnails. Sometimes it's when the program is launched and sometimes it's when the library is revealed again.

2. Some clothed figures that were created in Poser Pro 2014 load with clothing items that don't show in Poser 11 Pro. I have one character whose tennis shoes don't show in preview or when rendered. The properties tab shows it as visible and the textures show up on the material room as 100% visible but you can't see the shoes. Another figure is wearing an army commando type vest with buckles and canteens and pockets, etc. Everything shows except the straps of the vest.

3. Where are the file counts for the folders? Was that feature removed? I really found it handy.

No need to worry about the late response.

Instead of a morph, make a face that only includes the morphs you want to change.  Or make a face that only includes the morphs you want to restore.  For instance, when you save a face, there is a little button that says "Select Subset".

Click on the "Select Subset" button and a list of all the morphs in the figure will appear.  Click only the morphs you want in the face, and then give the face a new name.  In this case I named it "Bruce default 12052014".  That way I know it's Bruce's plain face as of Dec. 5th, 2014.  Then you save the face.

Now, I can screw Bruce's face up any way I want.  I can give him donkey ears, make him really mad, make his nose really big, or make a new face with a huge amount of changes, and when I want to change him back to normal, I don't have to remember what morphs I changed.  I just choose the face "Bruce default 12052014" from his library of faces and apply it, and back he goes in a flash.

The same thing can be done if you only want to change certain things.  Let's say you wanted to make a face that left the face unchanged but changed the ears and mouth to cat ears and a cat mouth.  Then you'd make a new face as above and only include the ear and mouth morphs.  That way when you apply it, ONLY the ears and mouth will change.  Or let's say you wanted to make a new face that restored his ears to the normal ones he has now but left all the other face morphs alone.  Then what you'd do is, while he's in his normal state, you'd make a new face that only includes the ear morphs.  Or let's say you made a custom morph on his face and you want to make a way to apply only that morph.  Then you'd make a new face that only includes the custom morph (or morphs).  If that custom morph changes any part of his ears, and you didn't want it to, simply choose the new face that ONLY changes his ears to a normal state.

That's for the face.

But you can do the same thing for the body with poses.  Make new poses, but only include the morphs for the bodyparts you want to change by using the "Select Subset" button to select the morphs to be included in the new pose.  Include morphs that are already in the figure, or custom morphs you made yourself.

As to your other questions, the "full" setting for morphs is indeed 1.  What might be happening is that other morphs were included in that morph that are contributing undesired effeccts to the desired effect.  When saving morphs, only the ones that need to change should be saved in it.  So if you save a new morph, say, one that makes a clown nose, and the ear morphs were not set to 0 when you saved it, then the "Clown Nose" dial is going to make the nose AND the ears change.

As to your last question, that depends on whoever made the morph, and it might have something to do with what I just said above.  Maybe, by accident, the maker of the morph forgot to set a "HeadLarger" morph (or something similar) to 0 when he made a new character morph.  Consequently, applying the new character morph is going to make the head bigger too.

Can you make a "face" that restores, say, the ears to their preferred state?  When you make a face, I believe you have the option to include whatever morph dials you want.  You could make a face that only includes the morphs that change the ears back to their preferred state.  That way you could add facial morphs or adjustments to your heart's content and then apply the "Restore Ears" face you made that will only change the ears.

I do it for poses too.  All my characters have a "back to normal" pose that restores all their settings.  I put the date in the name too so I know which one is the most current.

No.  I'm not thinking of expressions, although you can do the same thing with the head morphs.

In the Select Subset dialog, select only the body parts with the morphs you want to keep and save as a pose.  If you want only certain morphs, apply only those morphs to a default figure and save only those bodyparts as a pose.  That way you can apply that pose onto any figure.

Be sure to check the "Save morphs.....?" option when you're saving the pose to the library.

Not sure how this would work in an animation though.

I hope I'm understanding you correctly.

What I do is, while I'm in the process of saving the pose, click on the "Select Subset" button on the save pose dialog.  From there you can check off only the morphs you want to include in the pose.

I would like to know why this happens too.  I only had it happen once and I ended up deleting the figure and rebuilding it.  But I'd like to know what causes it in case it happens again.

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I save my most used Poser textures as Bryce materials complete with bump, transparency,  and specularity settings.  I made special folders for People textures which has subfolders for skins, eyes, hair, and clothing.  That way, when I import my Poser .objs and Bryce asks me to find the materials, I just skip it all.  The object imports as a blank, white figure.  Then I just apply my saved Poser materials from the Bryce libraries I made.

This way, you find the materials once, set the bump, transparency, specularity perfectly, save it, and you never have to go searching through your Poser texture files for it again.

I frequently reduce texture sizes when applying them to imported OBJs in Bryce.  I too can reduce a lot of textures by 50%, especially for small or simple objects that don't really need a 4000 X 4000 texture map.  As Kalypso said, skin textures, as well as other intricate texture maps, or maps that are going to be seen close up, probably shouldn't be changed.  Other things you can do to reduce texture overhead in Poser or Bryce are:

1. Substitue materials for texture maps.  Glass, metals, stone, etc. look far better and consume less memory overhead than a picture of glass or a picture of shiny metal.

2.  Bump maps, transparency maps, specularity maps, etc. are almost always color pictures pretending to be black and white (greyscale) images.  Change the mode from RGB to greyscale so that they are truly black and white images and you'll reduce the file size considerably.

1. Photoshop, and I imagine other photo editing programs, also has a "save for web" feature that will reduce a greyscale or RGB image even more without any discernable loss of detail.

I will often make a new "LowRes" folder in a texture's folder and run every texture through the "save for web" function in Photoshop, reduce the resolution of (sometimes every) texture, and convert bump and transparency maps to greyscale.  It's astounding how small the files become.

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I'm not understanding what you have and what you're trying to do.

*"One photo loads with a white background.  Both have a transparent background." *

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Could you post screen shots of how they render and also how they look in the image and material editors?

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