I can never find just normal clothes that look realistic.  I don't know what the designers are trying to accomplish, but everything is so extreme from uniforms to dresses to normal women's and men's shorts.

Pappy, technically, I can't guide you, but I just wanted to comment on how I was annoyed with Inverse Kinetics years ago vs. what a handy tool I find it now.  I use it constantly when adjusting the position of hips, body parts, or final placement of hands and feet. 

I have been following this discussion intently.  I have always wanted to turn conforming clothing to props and clothify and failed before.  My experiments are beginning to work now.  Thank you.

My first surprise was the obj file coming back a tenth the size that it went out.

Quote - Nauerth

I had already clicked on update.  Once you do that you can't go back and the serial number doesn't show up anymore just a popup requiring the serial number that denies access to the rest of the application.

If they had put in a step of  ok now write down your serial number which you can get from the about page...

Or this will erase your serial number do you want that?

it would have been workable.

Now I see.  That installer  program needs rewriting,  It sure isn't customer friendly.  I was able to start over on my SR3 update or I couldn't have gone to the serial number.  Weird!

I don't get it.  Didn't anyone read my memo this morning.  The serial number actually shows up twice. Once at the bottom of the log in window and in Help/About Poser 8 on the top tool bar.  Good point, TrekkieGrrrl, I also checked my Note Pad with Passwords etc and there were the serial numbers for Poser 7 and Poser 8 also, Then I checked my DVD case and there it was again plastered on the disk.  I didn't have to call SM in the first place.  Something tells me that SN's are important.

Oh, I have two single socks as a result of the "washer bandit".  Maybe we could match them.

I had the same problem and called SM.  The serial number of your Poser 8 is obtained from the tool bar.  Help/About Poser 8, lower left corner of the window.

I started with Poser 3 and continually upgraded to Poser 8.  I also bought a loaded PC last year, Dell.  The first subtle problems started in Poser 7, V4 eye lids, crashing with morph tool in face camera.  No big deals.  Poser 8 has been a disaster for me. I have to go to Poser 7 to modify skin textures for V4.   I have lost hours of work with white screen program failures and occasional blue screens.  Just a slip of the finger when using the mouse can do it.  Or, one yesterday was deleting figures then changing cameras.  They come from all over the place, nothing consistent except for the Cloth room when trying to redo a saved dynamic.  My computer can handle Poser 2010, but a tech at SM told me my problems were because I was using DAZ figures and could expect more problems as I moved on with Poser.  I use DAZ figures 80% of the time.  After all these years, DAZ Studio would be a huge investment in time to learn.  Everyone here seems to be fine with Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2010.  Any of you people using a new Dell?  Is it my computer?  I thought Dell  straightened its problems out.  I love what I can do with Poser.  I wish there was a solution.

Nauerth (Early, EarlyB)

Quote - > Quote - I have heard the name often, but haven't a clue who Monty Python is.

The owner of a Flying Circus.

Thanks for the link.  Now I know. 

The morph tool in Poser 7, and 8 has been a bit spooky to me.  In 7 I couldn't use the Face Camera and click on a figure with it without the program crashing.  I learned to avoid that quickly.  I like the carry over to the neighboring group in 8.  It took a while to get the sensitivity setting where I wanted them.  Sometimes the Mesh doesn't show in 8.  Sometimes it doesn't work at all then suddenly comes to life for no apparent reason.  I wonder if it has to do with DAZ figures.  I haven't used it on Poser figures, yet.

Quote - Amusing ... yes, indeed ... but you have to be a number one fan of Monty Python or other deep black british humour ... :laugh:
Ok, Jerry Lewis (e.g. the typewriter scene) fan's are also welcome ... :laugh:

I have heard the name often, but haven't a clue who Monty Python is.  Maybe it's my age,

Poser 8 has been flawless outside of a few DAZ figure problems.  The fixes seemed to help.

Boy, good thing I didn't try to  post anything with my Poser treads.  I am enjoyed at other sites under a different name.  I guess I'll keep it that way.  Apparently, it is okay if you check violence or nudity, then it doesn't matter, or does it?  New to forum, but have been buying for a long time.

Quote - As you say Python ... with P8SR3 they have implemented somewhere a new bug.

If you load stuff via the flash library things mostly work but if you do the same via a Python command like done by third party libraries the internal numbering :1, :2, etc. is mixed up. As a result of this superconforming aka crosstalk may not work and also I found that the stuff from the figures greater first Vicky tends to be settled into the deformer chains of the first Vicky where it doesn't belong. So at the moment P8 is on the way to be a one figure show.

May be you have also such problems that locks the SRK cause the Python is running into dead loops ...

At the moment I prefer not only to rigg figures but also set up scenes in P7 and then use the ready PZ3 afterwards in P8 for lighting and rendering.

Not the best but working solution. Seem's that P8 is heading for the championship of SR pack numbers ... :crying:

Amusing, thank you for the insight.  Your Poser 7 to Poser 8 seems very logical. - nauerth

ONE SOLUTION: I was getting a scene put together with six figures and intend to add more using Poser 8 in Windows 7.  Most were V4.2 or M3.  I was having trouble with my Skin Realism Kit which was running out of the Poser 7 Runtime folder.  After one set, it locked up and wouldn't change again.  (Paul Kinane's SRK).  I copied the figure to the Library as "transfer" and opened it in Poser 7 without changing anything but redoing the textures and SRK (Python), saved it in "transfer" and in Poser 8 again loaded it back into the scene replacing the figure in question without checking any of the options.  IT WORKED! My export binary morphs is off as suggested by SM.  Bothersome, but now I can at least work around my major problem.  I looks like from now on I am going to have to create new figures to replace the old ones V4's.  I might as well to to PP 2010 while I am at it and add 4 more GB of RAM first, and maybe a new video Open GL video card.

P.S. I still couldn't get the eyelids to work on the saved figure. 

Quote - Same here ... all DAZ stuff is running fine with Poser 8. It's definitive NO problem with V4 or M4 or such, mostly it's a problem of the environment, hardware like memory or graphics card, software like OS or drivers, and the rest (not too small) is a original problem of poser and it's sometimes crude programming.

And as far as the gotten answers from SM techs are in question ...
Hm, that people are a little bit let's say snobbish. They are unwilling to except any problem or error shown with stuff that isn't original SM stuff. So the answer that V4 isn't supported is a big big wish ... look to the usage of SM figures ... if DAZ figures doesn't work further in Poser than Poser is as dead as can be ...
They have not understood that poser is a program and thats the one side and V4 and such content is the other side. They try it like if M$ would say Word is only working with letters written either by a MS-clerk or in a MS-building or such and therefor never report us a error if it happen with otherwise done letters ...
That's a poor silly behavior and I'm long enough with IT business to have seen more companies with this attitude vanish than been founded ...

I totally agree.  The first problems I started having was when ti upgraded from Poser 6 to 7..  That is when the eyelid problems began with saved V4 figures and the forearm began to distort when flexed, saved figure again.  Both also said that 7 was the first break from keeping up with DAZ figures. 

Poser has sure been kicked around.  I think I started with f/x & Design, then Curious Labs, then e-frontier and now Smith Micro.  Their in house attitude toward DAZ in usually a reflection of management.  If sales fall, they will just drop Poser and go on with their other products, figuring it was a bad buy.  I hope I can resolve my problems, but I certainly won't go beyond PP 2010 unless there is a change in direction from SM.

Quote - I cannot confirm, that Poser 7 and later doesn't work with DAZ figures.
I am using them with PoserPro 2010 without any problems. The figures have originally been
installed to my Poser 6 runtime which is connected to PoserPro.

I think there were some issues with some new DAZ figures or morps (kids & S4) using scaling.
But those are working in Poser 8 and Pro2010 as well...

So, it looks like your problems are not directly related to the DAZ figures but something else.
Maybe it's some security setting, maybe the graphics driver, maybe some other hardware...
 

The first tech had me change my setting from OpenGL  using ATI Radeon 4800 display adapter to sreeD.  I don't see any difference.  And he had me turn off export binary morph targets because of the v4.2 problem.  He said the Kids4 just didn't work with Poser 8.  With Windows 7, I can[t load a zipped program into runtime of Poser 8.  Also can't modify a texture map and save it back into the Poser folders.  It is a personal computer, I am the administrator and it say I need my permission.  With a dual 64 bit system I should go to PP 2010.  I had Poser 4 Pro, have the disk and can't find the serial number.  They can't help because their records only go back to 2005.  I still have a computer using Windows 98 for an old DOS financial program.  It is so simple.