Hi,

We've just released the content updater for Mac and Windows at http://www.contentparadise.com/user/home.php?cat=435.

Thank you,

Steve
Curious Labs

Hi Steve - Let me be the first to say thanks for the quick response. I know you guys have been taking some heat for the problems in P6. This will help mend a few fences. Looking forward to some of the other issues being addressed in the same timely manner. - Dave B

Thanks :)

I am very appreciative of a content updater. That's great. It's good to see this type of response from Curious Labs.

Fixing the render memory bug will be even better.

Thanks, and looking forward to the first service patch.

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Fixing the render memory bug will be even better. At that point, I should be able to give this program a 99.99% rating. Outside of the memory bug, it's a beautiful thing.

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Weeeeelll The bug where the mat room freaks out if you enter it with the main camera selected if pretty... as the kid's say... "effed up right there dude." ^_^ Thanks for the content updater. Looking forward to the first bug fix.

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I just downloaded the update. Thanks. It's still missing the P5 kids, and nude Judy. The latest version of Poser I had was P4, and I was under the impression that all legacy content would be included. My install of Poser6 has P1, 2, 3, and 4 people and animals, the PP/P5 cartoon characters, Don and Judy Casual Hair and Don For Walk Designer. Also, many of the library thumbs are blank, for example, the James and Jessi expressions.

There's also the very nasty Color Tool problem that needs to be fixed up

Is this update only available at Content Paradise and not from the CL website (at least it's not there right now)? I don't have any intentions to create an account at Content Paradise so please make it available from the website as well!

Every organisation rests upon a mountain of secrets ~ Julian Assange

I agree - apart from the obvious and unnecessary commercial linking, it's a horribly sluggish site for us dial-up users.

From what I've seen it's only an update for the P6 people and since I kicked all the native P6 stuff out of P6 already I don't need this update anyway.

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What is in this update? I just finished DL and Would like to know what it fixes before I install. It really is a Very unfriendly site for us dailup users. It took almost 1/2hour, OK 20 minutes to get to the DL. Watched a whole movie waiting for the DL.

Here is a copy. Note it does say CONTENT Updater. Poser 6 Content Updater 1 Windows This Service release addresses all known problems associated with Poser 6 in product content as of April 6th, 2005, and offers several new pieces of Content for James and Jessi. Fixes: Translate, End point, origins, updated on Jessi and Jessi_HiRes hands and feet. Neck Bending updated on James, James_Hires,Jessi, Jessi_HiRes. End points fixed on all Jessi eyes. various path issues regarding texture locations. various path issues regarding geometry locations. IBL Light set Dusk By Ocean, main IBL light turned on. FBM Bending issues fixed. Additional Content: James Winter Coat conforming Set Jessi Lingerie conforming set File Update list: *Geometries: Poser6Clothes:Female:Fbra2.obz Poser6Clothes:Female:Fbra1.obz Poser6Clothes:Female:Fsweater3.obz Poser6Clothes:Female:Lingerie_bottom.obz Poser6Clothes:Female:lingerie_top.obz Poser6Clothes:Male:MWinter_Coat.obz *Textures: P6ClothingTextures:Female:Fbra1TEX.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:FBra2DSP.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:Fbra2TEX.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:Fbra2TRN.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:FBra3DSP.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:Fbra3TEX.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:Fbra3TRN.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:lingerie_bottomDSP.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:Lingerie_bottomTEX.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:lingerie_bottomTRN.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Female:lingerie_topTEX.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Male:BusinessJacketTieTEX.jpg P6ClothingTextures:Male:MWinter_CoatTEX.jpg dna:LaRoo:LRHEADTX001.jpg dna:LaRoo:LRHEADTX002.jpg *Python: poserscripts:FBM.addJamesTargetParms.py Python:poserscripts:FBM.addJessiTargetParms.py libraries:Pose:Jessi FullBodyMorphs:AddJessiHiResFBM.pz2 libraries:Pose:Jessi FullBodyMorphs:AddJessiFBM.pz2 libraries:Pose:Jessi FullBodyMorphs:AddJamesHiResFBM.pz2 libraries:Pose:Jessi FullBodyMorphs:AddJamesFBM.pz2 *Characters Jessi:Jessi.crz Jessi:Jessicasual.crz Jessi:JessiHiRes.crz James:James.crz James:Jamescasual.crz James:JamesHiRes.crz *Hair: Kozaburo:ALL *Props: Jessi Clothing:Boot L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Boot R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sandal L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sandal R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Shoe Casual L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Shoe Casual R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Shoe Flat L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Shoe Flat R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Shoe Heels L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Shoe Heels R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sock Footie L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sock Footie R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sock Long L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sock Footie R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sock White L.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sock White R.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sweater Red.crz Jessi Clothing:Shirt Sleeveless.ppz Jessi Clothing:Shirt Long Sleeve.ppz Jessi Clothing:Bra Black.crz Jessi Clothing:Bra Lace.crz Jessi Clothing:Bra Lace.png Jessi Clothing:Bra Pink.crz Jessi Clothing:lingerie_bottom.ppz Jessi Clothing:lingerie_bottom.png Jessi Clothing:lingerie_top.png Jessi Clothing:lingerie_top.ppz Jessi Clothing:Sweater Red.ppz James Clothing:JeansDark.ppz James Clothing:Winter_Coat.ppz James Clothing:Winter_Coat.png *Lights: Image Based Lighting:Dusk By ocean.ltz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The entire Poser team would like to thank you for your continued support of Poser.

Yes, the content is nice, but please fix the memory bug quickly...

I just find the interface at Conten Paradise utterly frustrating! I wish there was a minimalist style interface at every site. I have Flash blocked because of my slow dial up and I hate Java and all that stuff on principal... I would block scripting on security grounds but then I wouldn't be able to shop or view people's dumbbum menus. These effects and styles are crutches/causes of bad design. I think if a site can't be Netscape 2.0 compatable the designer is 2.0 lazy!!! I'm set up to intercept every cookie and spyware and you would be amazed what turns up! N.B. I don't use Internet Explorer or Netscape... but be careful, many browsers macarade as independent but actualy drive off the MSIE engine --the favorite tube for viris and worms.

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Ugh! I am trying to DL from Content Paradise in another tab and I can't see what I'm doing for all the "Fries with that?" and "May I supersize that?" Normally I am blind to banners et al. but in Paradise I would say there is 80% "pitch" space to maybe 20% "actually going about my buisness" space. Maybe if I had some gignormous screen the situation would not be so bad...

Thanks Kingfisher. Some good came of this. To bad, I thought they might fix the poor material groups on the new figures. Guess I'll have to fix them myself.

It would be nice if they put in the missing clown texture for the tutorial project (I think some other tutorial related stuff was missing also) and a pdf keyboard shortcuts for people who bought the download version.

Is "content paradise" now the method of choice for providing fixes? What happened to http://www.curiouslabs.com/go/downloads ?

It was a real pain to download as well. Had to go dig up my serial number...

bkmrk Question: why some people have these troubles with ContentParadise? Whats about create an account or download the update from here or there? I dont understand. I created yesterday an account and I have downloaded 5 freebies $0. It rules!

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could some kind soul tell me exactly where the =hell= they hid the download link for the updater? After doing the stupid forced registration and check out, there seems to be a nice invoice, and no link to anything like an executable. For 3rd party content this might be acceptable; but for obtaining a =FIX= for the content that came with the software? Not Acceptable. In fact is smells suspiciously like a gimmick to generate a lot of active hits on CP, to make it look like it actually performing as intended...

Attached Link: http://www.curiouslabs.com/article/articleview/1389/1/595/

This really is somewhat unprofessional... There should've been some kind of newsletter and the download should really be at the CL site. Funny thing is this little article at CL does link to the CL downloads/updates page... But there is no update available. "A few last minute corrections to the content library did not make it into the installer. Please apply the content service release available here. "

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Dale B. I just clicked on the word Download on the Invoice page.
Towards bottom of page & to the right.

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In fact is smells suspiciously like a gimmick to generate a lot of active hits on CP, to make it look like it actually performing as intended... Nah, CL has far too much respect for their customers to pull something like that. They wouldn't do that any more than they'd sell a product before it was ready for general consumption. ;)

Thank you CuriousL.

I only have one little problem at the CP site: I click the 'add to cart' and still have nothing in the cart.
Have tried several times.Been logged in, given serial #, etc.
Empty cart. Anyone else getting empty carts?

I agree with the comments about how hard it is to use it - for a bug download, you should not have to go through all the steps as if you were buying it, setting up new user accounts. I like Poser 6, but isn't it embarrassing enough to have to acknowledge bugs without making the acquisition of the fix more frustrating than the bugs?

Hmm. I only had to toggle between pages 4 times for the link that says 'download' to actually be active... If they put the actual SR 1 on CP, there is going to be...dissatisfaction in the ranks, methinks...

Jessi's Bra Lace conformer has a 0KB geometry file.

Attached Link: http://www.curiouslabs.com/article/articleview/1389/1/595/

People need to read the statement at this link. Here's a translation: "Dear customers, we released P6 knowing it had critical bugs that any normal application would never be able to include [like memory management]. Sorry for the inconvenience, but thanks for your money, if the program ruins hours of work time, we could care less."

I suspect that the content updater is on Content Paradise as a means to push the damn thing on us again.

ok,now i get it - back out the previous order with the serial number before the log in, then re-order under the log in putting in the serial number, then it gives the download screen. seems like a lot of work for a bug fix.

In their defense: you don't have to go to CP through Poser, and it costs nothing to register or download the updater. That having to re-enter the serial sounds like a pain though.

"That having to re-enter the serial sounds like a pain though." In order to avoid pyracy I suppose

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Agreed, Rafa... I had a little issues with logging in. But once the account was set up, you get the nice little option to store your Serial Number with your account. (Before anyone complains about THAT ONE, Bioware does it as well.) Once you get the account established, it give you 2 avenue's to work with. Through the Content Paradise Tab or through your web browser. SO far I am neutral on this one.

"Question: why some people have these troubles with ContentParadise? Whats about create an account or download the update from here or there? I dont understand. I created yesterday an account and I have downloaded 5 freebies $0. It rules!"

Ok, it might rule for you but not for me. I do not want to give my private information AGAIN in order to recieve an update/program fix. I have given my information already to them as I purchased the program - how many times they need to get this info from me?

I have no problems to enter my P6 serial in order to get an update over at the CL website but I have a problem when someone tries to force me to create an account at a site that I do not wish to register too.

Every organisation rests upon a mountain of secrets ~ Julian Assange

Dont kill me. Only it dont seems important to me I explain: you go to freestuff, and many of the items are in sites where a) you register and you get it, or b) you dont register and you dont get it. Well, probably I would like download my stuff directly from Rosity Freestuff. But as it isnt possible, Im registered (as probably all of us and you) in Renderosity, Renderotica, RuntimeDNA. PlantIt, Sara3DCreations, Sixus1, and a long list of etcs... so ONE MORE??? A drop in the sea. ALL THE SITES want you create an account. System would be different or better, but "as is", it sounds easy: you register, you get; you dont register, you dont get :)

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If you check the "registered users who downloaded the updater"
against your list of copies sold, you'd probably find out how
many users were using "liberated" copies????

I always see a motive :)

Message edited on: 04/07/2005 07:41 And CL, in spite of the fact that I bitch a lot, I really like Jessi

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What is liberated copies? Piracy?

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"Dear customers, we released P6 knowing it had critical bugs that any normal application would never be able to include [like memory management]. Sorry for the inconvenience, but thanks for your money, if the program ruins hours of work time, we could care less." That is just silly! Hello? Most programs have some issues when they are released. Any remember that little company Microsoft? I for one think CL is doing a great job getting the product released and addressing the communities issues. I dunno, I guess I'm happy with it! Oh, and I LOVE Jessie! :)

ALL THE SITES want you create an account. System would be different or better, but "as is", it sounds easy: you register, you get; you dont register, you dont get The difference is that this is a fix for a broken product, something we've already paid for. CL has turned their mistake into a marketing opportunity. They've been trying to cram content paradox down our throats since P5, now they're using their own screw-up to tell us the product we purchased from them isn't going to work right unless we sign up.

"CL has turned their mistake into a marketing opportunity" Of course ... ;) ericwiz, you talk about CuriousLabs-osoft?? ROFL (please, more sense of humour, folks, life is sufficient hard...)

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I was already registered at Content, and I just downloaded the updater but I noticed when you type in your Registration #, it is not protected - that is, you don't have the padlock icon below... Seemed odd as well to find the updater there while there is nothing at the CL site. :)

hee hee. I am happy with CL though. I dont find the CP thing a big deal myself. That's not to belittle when many of you feel is a big deal, just my opinion.

since content paradise is "a part of" Poser. what better place to put an update than "in" poser? What more efficient and secure way than entering it into a market place database. Givem a few weeks the web guys might get around to putting it on the main site. On to of that....What better way to find out what is wrong with your website than to get people to it and listen to them complain :)

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I dont find the CP thing a big deal myself. By itself, it's not a huge deal. On top of all the other crap CL pulls, it's fuel to the fire. Even M$ respects their customers enough to permit product updates without a bunch of marketing.

If they can "liberate" Poser, why not "liberate" the upgrade, too?

I am glad they fixed the hands and feet. And the neck!

But I'd rather they fix the bugs in the program...

CLSteve - There is no way I will be able to download that 25mb file. My dail-up is only 19.2k. I need to have these files sent to me on cd! This is why I bought the hard-copy.

Doesn't the "Software Update" in Misc under Prefs do anything?

Hey, I'm on Roadrunner at home which is lightning fast and CP crawls on my computer. I was actually looking forward to having a lot of cool merchants all in in one spot and when I tried browsing it, it was pure hell. I gave up trying. Not only that, the interface stinks.

Do I "really'" need this update?

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Connatic Just get "Getright" or some other download manager and let it DL overnight. If it times out you can resume. I used to download HUGE PC game mods and stuff in the Hundreds of megs, back in the dark days when I was on dialup.(shudder)

Downloaded my update quickly without any problems. Weird :- However, I've noticed something in the content that doesn't seem to have been fixed. Wasn't there some kind of bug where Jessie's eyes were always rendered black/very dark? Someone told me it was, and for the life of me I haven't been able to make a decent render of her with her eyes looking bright without changing the materials manually. I made a post about it a while back, and someone said this was a confirmed bug with Jessie and P6. Here's a pic to illustrate. No postwork or anything, so I didn't accidentally dim them myself :( Guess I'll mark the nudity tag just incase.....

I already have GetRight. I am trying to get the file with it, but nothing is happening. I hope they will work with me to resolve this. Sadly, I live in a rural area with no cable or dsl access. DirectWay is the only other alternative, and is beyond my budget at the moment.

So, Just change the mats and resave her :) Could be that some of these "well known" problems never actually get reported. ^_-

"So, Just change the mats and resave her :)" I may do that, still....kinda pesters me that I have to change the diffuse value from 1 to sometimes 1.5 or even 2. It may just be my lighting, but I know other people were having the same problem, and I still seem to be.

"Sadly, I live in a rural area with no cable or dsl access. DirectWay is the only other alternative, and is beyond my budget at the moment." I feel your pain. :(

Hell yah, I been waitng for this thing a long time. Tahnks mate. Whats in the new update. Any new fictures that I need to know about. Does it fix the memory problem. Does it add more content.

I am VERY concerned that I will be required to download SR1! My connect throughputs at 1.5-2kb/sec! I did not realize that a service release was already planned when I made my pre-purchase. I understood the pre-purchase was intended to leverage funds for the launch but I thought the wait would mean there would be no need (soon at least) for an update. With apps this big it is a strange assumption everyone has broadband. No high speed is a vailable in my geographic location.

how big is the update?

Luck is with me! GetRight has begun the Updater download. Hopefully it will resume when the inevitable boot-off of service occurs!

how big is the update? 25.1MB

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getright is no use for people with copper wire dial-up modem connections. Much software I can't buy because no matter how many times I try a 80-100Mb download in craps out on error about 5-6 hours in... and don't blame me! I should move to use the internet? Maybe it would be more considerate of companies to "split" their downloads like they used to. Lord knows I wish I could install only those Poser components I want... since it is clear the code is modular work done by different teams and even companies, why can't that modularity br incrporated in the end application, a plugin-structure maybe.

Can't seem to download the update at all: says my serial number isn't valid. Valid enough when I registered Poser 6 ... Actually created an account thinking that would make a difference. Don't know what to make of it. Rance

It's always fun to come back in here after 10-12 hours away. Catch up on what's happened to the threads overnight.

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No, I didn't really care for having to register at CP in order to obtain the updater -- but I think that I understand CL's reasons for doing it that way. So, I'll give them a pass. They've got a business to run. And sometimes it's a balancing act between pleasing the customers and keeping tabs on legit copies of the program.

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Once again -- content updates are nice, and we should all thank Curious Labs for providing one in a timely manner.

But that !!!!!!! memory bug -- that's the sort of thing that keeps the program from being what it ought to be. Content is great: functionality is crucial.

No doubt, Curious Labs is working on the problem. And we'll see a fix soon.

Thanks to the entire CL team for all of their hard work. I appreciate it.

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I know that it's hard to be heard above all of this clamor. Like attempting to talk in a normal tone of voice while at a football game. But thanks, CL. Over time, you are getting the job done.

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Hey momodot - GetRight works fine for THIS copper-wire 19.2k connection! We slow dial-up users are who GR was made for, with the ability to resume (some) downloads. I got the P6 content updater downloading thru GR. I am hoping it will resume. Some links will not resume, depending on the hosted server settings. My dl is 30% complete. Hours to go.

Connatic, this is a huge help. I was using FlashGet not GetRight! FlashGet had been the least sucky of the downloaders I found. I am testing GetRight this moment and it seems amazing! And only $25USD! I have much more faith now :)

momodot, I am glad this has helped you. I am very happy that CL has set up the links so GetRight can be used! I have been downloading the updater for hours, and have resumed 3 times already. I was really worried about being able to get these updater files. Now at 82%. It took me an hour just to navigate thru and join CP. Renderosity pages load much faster.

Hello . . . I downloaded this update, not off to a good start, could not find Poser 6 which is in the default directory. Didn't install anything that I can find just seemed to terminate for some reason. Anyone else had that happe? WinXP Home, P6 D/l version.

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Ok, this is pissing me off, how come, every time I check go to checkout, it deletes every thing in my cart.

Well, I'm underwhelmed at having to "purchase" the update through CP. Asking people to jump through the CP hoops to get bonus freebies (or free bees, as the case may be) is one thing. Making them to do all that for an update - a fix to things that was broke - is something else again. This should have been put on the CL site, with the other SRs. Even finding the @#$% updater was a pain. (I finally searched on updater to find it.) There's the whole put in serial, put in cart, purchase cart rigamarole. Arrrrghhhh. And the missing P5 figures are still missing...

"And the missing P5 figures are still missing." Really? I never noticed. I still have P5/P4 installed. I like to make sure everything I make works on all versions. So, that also means there will be a need for an SR for the just released SR? What scares me, who bought the box version, the size of the program SR will be and having to DL it on a dialup. I think a disk should be sent to us, free of shipping and handeling and able to DL, too while waiting for the disk.

It is not funny how well this Getright works. Totaly must have this for dial-up. Great design. And it is one of those shareware apps that basically uses the honor system for payment as far as I can tell... "use now, pay when you can". It is smart design and very easy and powerful.

Will all Poser6 updates only be hidden in content paradise?, after all i would not have known about this one if it wasn't for the post, and thankyou for that. let's hope that the updates remain at curious labs website.

Getting old and still making "art" without soiling myself, now that's success.

There are still some clothing/morph problems but they may just be me. Bra Lace doesn't load Jessie's FBM are set way to high, if I manually set the morphs then they work great but if I use the body dials then all heck breaks loose :) The abs are not inlucluded in the "fat" morph. I find that a .5 on manual morphs looks about right but 1 on the FBM is too strong. If I load Jessi ( not the fbm version ) and load the morphs then I get this ( see image )

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Bra Lace doesn't load

It's the object file. Later, I'm going to see if I can substitute one of the existing geometries.

Ye gods, that's ugly. In a kind of fascinating way... I still have Poser 5 installed, too, but some people never bought P5. They were looking forward to playing with Judy, Don, Will, and Penny. But Will and Penny aren't there, and Judy is there only in her fully clothed incarnation.

That wonderful collection of P5 clothing for the children isn't included, either. I realize they won't fit Ben and Kate anyway (they're older than Will and Penny), but some of us are fairly skilled at adapting clothes to other figures, and markdc's Clothes Converter utility can do some great stuff also.

I already had an account set up at Content Paradise. I logged in via my web browser (Firefox) rather than using the connection in Poser. The updater was listed on the front page, where it says "Poser 6 content updater 1 is available now!" Clicked on it. Gave my serial. Viewed my cart. Went to the checkout. Confirmed the order. Downloaded it. No hiccups, no catastrophes, no problemo. Gawsh, I feel so special after reading some of the posts in this thread ;) Like casette said earlier in this thread, most all of the sites you use these days reqire a sign-up, and the procedure ain't exactly rocket science, neither is downloading a "purchase"...BUT, I do agree, if the product was purchased from CL then the update should be available from CL. BUT (Two big buts in one post???)...with all the same security constraints. We bitch often enough about people getting warez version of software, so using only a valid serial to get updates seems like a damn fine idea to me.

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Does this update fix the missing Zygote materials?

Well, I just installed the update and no it did not fix the problem with the Zygote mats. Is anyone else having a problem with them or is it just me?