Well that's going to be tough. There are 400 objects in the scene. I may test it again in a separate scene file and see how well it goes, before attempting it in mine :) Thanks again, Andy

I have it a shot and it didn't seem to work on anything. No matter, I guess I'll just keep dialing up the bump maps and mapping modes. Thanks anyway to both of you:)

Thanks! I'll try that and see how it goes. It should be pretty easy since only one item needs an AA pass :)

Esther, Good deal. So running on boot was the answer to the speed issue. I happened to go the other way and replace everything with Poser5. Classic and MacConverter are gone and I can forget about OS9 ever being on my system again. Glad it all worked out :-) Andy

Esther, Yes indeed you will. And just think, we may not even need MacConverter anymore. Geez I hope that's the case. Really, I think you should write to the support department at Curious Labs and ask them every question that way you can get it straight from the source, Then again, many OSX users are happy with P5 so I'd definitely give it a shot. Hang in there :-) Andy

Esther, The great thing about P5 is that you can have separate runtime folders so you could try it and see if it's better. The learning curve is always steeper with something new, but I only render my characters and build the rest of the scene in any of my other apps (MojoWorld, Vue, Bryce, Photoshop). Again, for me it's not a drastic step and I hear the new render engine is much better. Write to the people at Curious Labs and have them address your concerns to see what they say. It could be you're worried about nothing (I would hope so). By the way, Vue has a patch to work with Poser5 so don't worry about that either. Keep us posted :-) Andy

I agree. It's time to move up and move on :-)

Esther, I remember the Keynote when Steve (Jobs) talked about OS9 and mentioned that it's considered a dead OS. I don't think that what Apple did in this case was deliberate, but their way of saying that OS9 will no longer be updated for additional compatibility in Classic mode. Since many of the underpinnings and functions of Panther are much more advanced than Jag, this is where the incompatibility comes in. As far as what you've tried, I admire your effort, but the problem runs deeper into how Classic interacts with Panther. The flickering menu bars and speed issues don't point to a bad video card, but a poor interaction between a very memory intensive application (Poser) and a very high-end OS (Panther) with a lack of additional integration thrown in. Apple has basically washed their hands of Classic. I hate to say it, but it appears the only way to fix it is to either boot OS9 or upgrade. I can live with what's happening, but it sounds like your condition is much worse than what I'm experiencing (I'm not getting any kind of speed loss). I'm in the process of trying Poser5 and since I do so much additional work in Photoshop and Painter, it probably won't affect me since I only use models and occasional prop armor, but your situation sounds a little more tough. The only way around it is to work in 9 and then go back to X when you're done. Oh and I may not be seeing the speed issues since I have a dual drive and my OS9 and OSX systems are on different drives (and I do run Poser on the OSX drive). Maybe there's something to that after all. I'm really sorry we couldn't solve this and I urge you to hang in there. It could be worse! Andy

Esther, Mine asked for the same thing (a QT Update) and that didn't help either. I'm running on a Dual/867 so it's not too bad, but what drives me nuts the most are the dials going out of control. The only thing I can think of is to boot into OS9 and not run Poser in classic mode from within OSX. Make your PZ3 file from that side and then restart and boot into X for all of your Vue work. That should stop the problems, but I'll leave it to you to let me know if that helps. Andy

Thanks Barry. I thought I was the only one with these problems. I may just downgrade to Jaguar since everything worked well.

I also pick #84, however it's likely a wasted effort since these contests are more about who can kiss ass and get their friends to vote for them than it is about making great art and having it judged accordingly.

The second option sounds much better as I don't use Photoshop or any other graphics program for post rendering. Thanks for your help and I'll report back as to the results as soon as I have a chance to try it out.

I'm running on a G4/466 and I run all of my renders at 1600x1200 on a 1:1 ratio and performance is really snappy. Reliability under OSX 10.1.2 is phenomenal and you'll love that you can run a render and switch out to do a thousand other things. The only advice I have is to run tons of RAM since if OSX starts to page to the vm swapfile, things can get kinda ugly. I run 1.1 Gig in my machine and it's plenty quick although a DP 800 would be nice! But yes, it's more than worth it!