RedPhantom posted at 7:56 PM Mon, 26 February 2024 - #4481997

If I remember correctly, the progress bar didn't update properly. Try rendering a very simple image that would only take a minute or 2 to render and see if it finishes. I was able to get it to render but it never showed progress until it was done. I can only render locally so I can't say if it will work differently on a networked machine

So far so good, ...  i've worked in poser a couple of hours without any hickups :D

But now Queuemanager is acting weird ...  as you can see in the screenshot
in taskmanager(taakbeheer) the processes are running., but in the queuemanager the progress stays at 0% (it's like this for hours now.)

on Qman startup, I've allowed local network in windows firewall. (left public...  unchecked - as I have always done in the past)

anybody any ideas whats going on here ? Thanks !

The "in the past" problem when Poser would stop responding temporarily may be autosave.

You mentioned rolling back windows. You didn't say if you've tried reinstalling Poser. It may be something in Poser got corrupted.

Y-Phil posted at 1:49 AM Fri, 23 February 2024 - #4481864

nerd published some suggestions a few days ago: here not sure if it's related but it may be worth checking.

i have tried poser out, and so far no ''not respondings''  I haven't been able yet to work for a couple of hours  due to RL interfering with 3Dwork, :D :D

but it's looking pretty good so far !

in fact, to be more specific, it's the ransomware engine that "protects" (read blocks) all kinds of files, folders and tons of file-extensions ... found 2 solutions here :

1. deselecting all extentions (png jpeg...) in the "picture" list of antiransomware protectionsettings (made FS work properly) and deselecting database and design file extensions made airlibrary work or
2. whitelist every program LSMGUI.exe, poserpro.exe, FSviewer.exe in the RANSOMWARE whitelist, and not the firewall whitelist as i said earlier.

conclusion : iobit tightened the securityknot a bit as standard settings. downside : took a lot of digging and try-and-error before finding the cause. iobit is not very transparent on accessing securitysettings imo.

Anyway, just letting you all know in case someone comes accross similar probs with airlibrary or such :)

Found it . Seems iobit advance systemcare ultimate was blocking adobe air. Strange though as i have been using iobit ASC for years with no problems whatsoever. And now all of a sudden it blocks Adobe air and some other progs like Faststone image viewer as well. found nothing in the settings of ASC that pointed to this though. So uninstalling iobit made me discover that everything worked like a charm afterwards. Than i re-installed latest version of ASC and seems that everything works only on the lowest security settings in real-time protection. Any other setting blocks the library and Faststone straightaway... even whitelisting both doesn't help ... weirdweirdweird.. quess i should talk to iobit then :)

Solved for now, but any suggestions always still welcome !! thanks all !

Thanks for your quick reply Jules53757, Yes, adobe air is updated to the latest version. I'm on win8.1 btw.

Forgot to mention : When i open the library with IE explorer, it shows up with the thumbs correctly displayed :

POSERPRO PATH//Runtime/ui/Flex/LSMGUI/bin-release/LSMGUI.html#

But even so, from within PP12 >> window >> "check"parameter dials it still shows up the same as the image above.

WOWW, Excellent stuff !!! thanks a bunch Eric ! I'm starting with a little homerecording studio. Let it be said i'm still very noob in this . So I wondered (haven't yet experimented with it though) can your tracks be loaded in programs like fruityloops ?

OK thank you for clarifying that Rhaseltine !  Still no succes in transferring morphs from V4 to V6 . perhaps I should open a separate thread for this ?

sometimes it can be something really simple :) glad you've found it :)

Forgot to mention about the textures : V6 textures always seem to appear shiny and glossy. that is why I use the V4 textures. In most V4 textures you have often the option to choose between normalmats (also sometimes called poser9andbelow) and SSSshadermats.  With Draagonstorms textureconverter I create V6 textures from the normalmats. Once that is done, I do the above workflow to get a V4textured V6 into poser.

RHaseltine : Sorry I'm not sure what you mean with CMS ? I'm a DAZstudio noobdummie as I only installed studio as a necessity for getting V6 into poser :)

Ian : here's a more or less on how i did it : first you need Draagonstorm's V4skinsbatchconverter.  assuming you have created textures from V4 to V6 with this one,

you load V6 in Studio. you apply one of your converted textures.  Save this new V6 into DAZstudioFormats/my library/people

highlight the newsaved V6 and rightclick content library and press "create poser content file.

in the new window that pops up leave paths to there origin as they load .. (things often don't work when you change directories...

base source path should be set to : ....../my library

Relative path should be set to /people

click use all .DUF files and check include all .DUF files in subfolders as well

Destination base path should say : ..... /my Library

Relative path : /Runtime/libraries

Supplemental path : /DSON Conversions

Don't use the metadata setting. it will not work;

check instead : use libray and file extension (set it to CR2)

I don't know what it does, but I check "copy relative source path as well and check also "trim from....."

hit accept and the script should run.  Close or minimize Studio and in explorer go to Destination folder C/users/.../Documents/................../Libraries/DSONconversions

Copy the .DUF, .PNG ..CR2 and .PY from your new converted V6 and paste them into your poser runtimes libraries character folder of your choice.

launch poser, add the  my documents/DAZ3D/studio/my library as an external runtime.. I don't really use it in poser , but it seems that it needs to be loaded as ext runtime  for things to work properly in poser. pulled my hair out serveral times before I figured this one out. LLOOOLL  (i think....)

If you now load V6 from the characterfolder you just copypasted her to, she should load with the DSON importer. If you have outlines, set  SUBDivision to O in the DSONimporter script.

Remember, as BHOINS said, don't forget to switch back to 1. 2 or 3 before rendering.

Let me know if you need more ellaborate explanation on any of these steps ...

Now next issues to figure out would be : copy the custom character morphs from V4 to V6 and load (converted) textures on V6 within poser.  In Dazstudio I haven't experimented yet with creating PZ2 files in the "createposerecompanionfiles"script...

I dont have poser debut either, i'm on ppro2012 ... but can you explain what you mean with "all the screens" ? . so it isn't just the previewworkscene that goes black?

can you post a screenshot ?

OK thanks for replying, sorry it took me a while to get back here. Meanwhile I've been experimenting with everything said inhere, but but there seems to be no fixed workflow to follow. So I ended up with the DAZ3D V4 skins batchconverterscript.  What I do now is convert my V4 skins with the script. then I load V6 in Daz and apply them. In Daz I then create a CR2 from DUF with the "create poser companion file".

For the CR2file to work (because it doesn't from the folder where it's saved by the script - Neither in DAZ neither in POSER) I copy the new CR2,DUF,PNG and PY to my poserruntime  libraries-haracter folder. 

and voila ... a fully morphed V6 with no plasticlook and no outlines... YAYYY :)

no determined/fixed howto's were one of the main reasons I started with poser instead of DAZ as there is no fixed workflow to follow, it's always try and error... DAZ has so many folders, I don't even know where to begin ... there's DAZ in programfiles, there's Daz in programfilesX86 (yes, 32bit and64bit) but then there's a DAZ in C: next to programfiles then there's one in my documents ... and this one bothers me the most ... this is the main folder to work with where all content needs to go and that is placed in "my documents" (?????) . then there is the smart content issue ... then there is rutimefolder in data,people,content folders  and all this besides another runtime folder next to the data,people,content ones...

I have installed DAZ in the original path, I have installed content in the original path and nothing shows up in DAZ (left pane) ... I still have to work by selecting DAZstudio formats in the right pane...and then, best of all ... I select V6 and when I apply the createposercompanionfile i get the error message ..."...content could not be converted because of unknown/unsupported file type ;..' (!?!?!?!?) I mean, REALLY??? ... DAZ not recognizing it's own DUF files ??

But besides that I don't feel comfortable at all with a program deciding what should go where on my computer.... In poser, you can organize runtimes as you want them...  (yes, i like to be in control of things and have an overview... not the other way around lol). but anyway... this is just nagging and complaining from a diehard poser fan LOL

so, now ...up to the next challenge ... copy custom character morphs from V4 to V6 ... Feel free on any comments or tips please :)