Thanks so much for that information.  I'm playing with the settings now and adjusting both the depth bias and the main light's Preview Shadow Map Size.  I'm hoping to find a happy medium whereby there are self shadows on the figures but not those black hair and eyelash shadows.

Oh, and SR3 had no ill effects for my system.

Found the David head and body morphs among all the stuff I've purchased and reinstalled them.  Now there is a David folder in the !DAZ folder.  I then tried injecting the Lionel character into my new M3 character and it worked!

I also reinstalled and tried loading all the M4++ onto M4 and it worked!  A couple of years ago I couldn't get it to initalize.  I was even working with support at DAZ and they couldn't figure out why it wouldn't initialize.  But it's ok now.

Thanks much for your patience.

Okay, downloaded and reinstalled the M3 morphs.  That created the head and body folders in the !DAZ folder.  I then took a blank M3 and was able to load all the head and body morphs.  The only strange thing is that while doing so, it asked for the delta to remove the eye wince R dial and when I went to look for it in the new folder with all the other deltas, that one was missing.  There's one to inject and remove the left eye wince but just one to inj the right one.  Strange.

I then tried to inject Jepe's Lionel character into the new M3 and it started asking for deltas that did not exist in the M3 folder.  I then saw that it was asking for deltas from David's folder, but there is no David folder in the !DAZ folder.  So I downloaded and reinstalled David.  I tried again but the same thing happened.  I noticed that the reinstall of David did not create a David folder in the !DAZ folder.  Should there be?

Was there a separate David face and body morph package?  Do I need to do something else so the Lionel character injection can find all the deltas it needs?

I will do that.  Obviously I had it right at one time if I made that copy of M3 with all the morphs and saved it.  But after that, I must have moved them or archived them.  Now that I think of it, I think I did do that long ago.

Thanks for your patience.  Will let you know how it goes tomorrow.

What install are you referring to?  There are only basic morphs on the M4 figure right now.

I only have one runtime.  Everything is installed to that runtime. It's C:/Poser7Runtime.  I just haven't changed the name from when I had Poser 7.

There is indeed a !DAZ folder in there.  It has folders for Michael 3, Victoria 3, and Michael 4.  The only thing inside the Michael 3 Deltas folder is a Wolf-InjDelta file.  However, I did find a Michael 3 figure in my runtime from a long time ago.  I remember that I loaded all the morphs onto it and saved it as a separate figure.  But when I try to load Jepe's Lionel character onto it with an INJ pose, it asks for the Deltas.  Same thing happens if I try to load the head and body morphs onto a new, empthy M3. Those deltas should be there in that folder, shouldn't they?  It was so long ago I might have archived them.  Think I should try downloading the M3 morphs again?

The !DAZ folder does have the "DZCreateExPFiles-M4" file and I ran it.  I tried loading the Brock character with an INJ pose and it looks like it worked!  I remember buying the Morph++ package but I could never get it to load because I could never get the the initialization to work.  Since it looks like that worked, think I should try installing them again?

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!

I didn't realize that square in the primitives folder was a cloth square, and I'll experiment with saving out subdivided objects.

(Smiles)

Well there's more now.

Lou,

Thanks for the suggestion.  I will definitely look into that.

No, I don't.

Vitachik,

Currently there are 1, 236 layers in the doccument.  Most of them are text (single words).  It's a big document though physically (at least for me) at 8200 x 4100 pixels.

Yes, I've set my cache sizes and preferences to maximum.

I usually have the memory alottment for Photoshop CS5 and CS6 set to 75%.  Just for kicks I decided to set it to 100% for CS6 but there was no change.

Before I made the changes you suggested, I decded to try opening the file again and waited for a long time to see what happened.  The file did open eventually, but it took about 10-15 minutes to load.  When it opened, it did not display correctly.  Most of the layers of the left side of the document didn't show, but as soon as I zoomed a little, everything showed.  Changing the screen size though took forever.

CS5 opens this file in about 10 seconds.

So then I made the changes you suggested and restarted my computer.

I tried opening the document in CS6 again but it was just as slow

Interestingly, the document sizes in the status bar, for the same document, are different.  In CS5 it shows as 96.2 MB/2.55 GB.  But in CS6 it shows as 96.2 MB/8.17 GB.

I would be very interested in seeing a weight mapped M2 and V2.  I use both of them a lot.

Quote - Does this mean I can trade all my 3D software and content in on a Jaguar?!?

I don't see why not.  As long as it comes in .OBJ format.

An average of $11.96 a month.

It sounds better that way.

And just to give you an idea....I started the day Poser 2 came out.

Universal poses was on.  I turned it off and loaded the pose (pz2) again but the problem was still there.