Strangechilde opened this issue on May 08, 2004 ยท 11 posts
Strangechilde posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 6:18 PM
Heyas-- Some of you may remember me from 'way back when. I've been absent for a while, the reason being that I never upgraded to Poser 5, and then the Classic interface for Mac couldn't handle running P4 across systems, so I kinda got out of the loop... anyways, I've just landed a bit of work and got Poser 5 (woo!) and am encountering a strange difficulty. I pointed Poser 5 at my Poser 4 Runtime folder, and bing, there's all my stuff! Hoorah; I have a lot of it. However, when I load Mike 3 and go to inject some morphs into him, the machine can't find them, looking in the P5 folder. I reinstalled Mike, but that didn't fix it (it installed everything in the old P4 Runtime folder, as far as I can tell). What's the best thing to do about this, do you reckon? I ma most grateful for your advice.
estherau posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 6:55 PM
You have to move a folder called !daz from your poser 4 runtime into your libraries in poser 5. that fixes it. ie it sits just above the camera library in your poser 5 runtime libraries folder. Love esther
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
Strangechilde posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 6:58 PM
Thank you very much! I will do just that. I'm glad to see this place is going as strong as ever and I'm looking forward to being around a bit more now.
nruddock posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 6:59 PM
When running a DAZ installer you can cancel the search and choose where to install.
Strangechilde posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 7:03 PM
Thanks again! I tend to let the installers do whatever they want... they usually seem to know what they're doing. It's a great help. I was just so glad I didn't have to move/reinstall all my myriads of stuff... from my limited experience Poser 5 absolutely rocks.
estherau posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 7:09 PM
Let me know how posing speed goes on P5. I find it quite slow, but then poser only sees 500mhz processor ie 1 out of my two, and I have a gig of ram. Love esther
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
Strangechilde posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 7:13 PM
Erk, I think I won't be able to match you at all... I'm using an old 350 mhz G4 with a gig of ram. Still, it seems to be comparable to rendering time in OS9, and I was able to render a file with Stephanie, a Brycetech critter, AND some Kozaburo hair, with textures, without encountering an out of memory error. That's never happened before.
estherau posted Sat, 08 May 2004 at 7:28 PM
It's the posing which is really slow. Drives me mad. Rendering you can do other things while it's happening. But posing slowly - try to turn a dial and nothing happens for ages etc. Love esther
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
Triarius posted Sun, 09 May 2004 at 10:05 AM
I'd suggest a processor upgrade as your next major cash outlay. I think Otherworld computing is selling a processor for your machine for around $200, IIRC. I just upgraded from G4 750 Mhz to G4 1.2Ghz, and posing is no longer slow!
estherau posted Sun, 09 May 2004 at 8:29 PM
Oh wow, well that's great to hear. Because I'm planning to buy a G5 just as soon as I can get some cash. (Mind you that upgrade doesn't sound that expensive.). Love esther
I aim to update it about once a month. Oh, and it's free!
Strangechilde posted Mon, 10 May 2004 at 12:17 PM
Indeed... I would never have bothered getting Poser 5 if I didn't know that I would be inheriting my husband's G5 in the not too distant future. Right now, I'm just not going to touch the hair or cloth features.