Maybe try cancelling when the install looks for poser install and you should be able to assign it manually then...

Do you have a downloadable version of PP or the boxed cd? Also what exactly happens when you try to install the propack?

The test tool is described as being for people running FAT32. I am under XP with NTFS so i guess it should work whatever!?

Great, thanks Kelderek. I am happy to be a plat member now :)

I guess my question is a bit similar: say you save a face of vicky 3 using some injected morphs. When i reapply the face to a new "morph empty" vicky 3, the morphs won't load. What do you need to do then?

I totally agree with the point of view of people here (of course, being a poser user myself for more than 2 years). Now, since it is a pretty one sided thread, i will play the devil's advocate a bit: Taking the studio analogy again, you don't have to forget that you can get the best lights, best camera, best makeup and best models, the average guy would just make a shitty picture out of it... it is the same with poser, with one exception: you can even buy light, camera, poses and textures settings, so it can be like someone put everything ok for you in the studio and you just arrive and click the camera button and say you are the artist... Now once again, i totally agree with what i read in this thread, and i don't see why some people critisize (sp) the work of others when they use lets say a vicky char. with an existing texture and cloth... If you take the same char, textures and clothes, some people will make beautiful, creative pics and some other won't... that's life :)

Thank you Phil :)

The funny thing is that if you go to Amazon.de (german amazon site) you can get poser 4 for 99 euros but poser 5 is at 500 euros!!! The best way to go may be to Buy poser 5 at amazon and the "upgrade" it to poser 4! mouahah :P

I remember some really great looking renders of faces by Catherina Przazak (now Harders i guess, sorry for the spelling) and those were done in Poser 4 with her own made textures! Don't know if someone has a link to those (i know she had her own site now).

Will do, thank you :)

Great tutorial but i think the beginner / advanced should be placed on another level. This tutorial could be adapted to a lot of rendering package, not only vue so i would say it is a very easy to undestand tutorial, very well written (so beginner in that aspect) but it requires some "mastery" of the software you want to use to achieve your impressive result (in this case i would say an advanced level is required in Vue, requires to be "fluent" with materials, lights, atmospheres, boolean operations etc...).

Ah, thanks Dragon. Now, lets say i use procedural shaders in a .pz3 file from P5 and i edit it to change the version number, will it load in P4 with just no material or something or will there be other problems? (all this if mainly thinking on exporting the .pz3 files to Vue 4 and C4D btw)

I understand Anton, but then what you don't want is people making money with your morphs, now if they want to create a char from your morphs and ditribute the extracted "custom morph" as a free stuff, would it be ok then? PS: rereading your answer, i guess people could still sell a pose file (.cr2?) that put all dials the way they want to create a new char. right? The it is just that i don't see much difference between a pose file and the corresponding extracted "custom" morph! (beside that you can't see the exact original dial positions in a "custom" morph).

Anton, am i correct that your comment on morphs and characters mean that there won't be any (well maybe a few...) chars for Vic 3 other than pure texture since more or less everyone was using Vic 2 base morphs to create their Vic 2 chars!?

I really doubt you can since it would still be heavily based on that copyrighted texture.