DVTVFilm opened this issue on May 10, 2005 ยท 4 posts
DVTVFilm posted Tue, 10 May 2005 at 8:21 AM
My Poser6 work has completely ground to a halt. I'm very disappointed. Every project I've created has crashed with the OUT of Memory bug that CL is well aware of and posted in their FAQs as a problem. Apparently, Poser6 OS-X can't address more than 384KB (that's KB) and will either crash or overwrite your current work with an empty file. If you get the error and try to save-- then you;'ve killed your file as well... So, basically, Poser6 MAc is still in Beta (my opinion) and not ready for public use. It's really upsetting as I really love learning this form of art and working with this program. The last 6 projects I started all ended in a crash. Does any one know if CL is fixing this? The other frustration is Mr. Shruggy. Most of the alledged MAC/PC compatible products I bought from the merchants at Renderocity don't show up in the Poser6 Library browser. So, even though I have a long list of products I want-- if I can't see them. If I can't make a choice for my characters-- there's no sense in buying them. There is (as of yet) no OS-X MacConverter-type fix. I can only hope that someone clever will write one, since in all reality, this directly effects merchant sales. OS-9 is long dead and never to return...
zorares posted Tue, 10 May 2005 at 9:00 AM
Yep! Visit the Macintosh forum for more on this issue!
MrMongo posted Tue, 10 May 2005 at 9:01 AM
From talking with a Curious Lab tech support guy, it seems the upcoming Service Release 1 will address the memory bug and deal with the shrugging icons' cause in Mac OS X. I haven't created any large scenes w/P6 yet, but the only times it crashed on me was when I was trying to import an OBJ that had it's material paths messed up.
dbutenhof posted Tue, 10 May 2005 at 4:32 PM
I've had lots of crashes selecting popup lists (as in the Pose window menus for figures or body parts), and many more times when those simply don't work at all. But while I've had a couple of render crashes, for the most part it has been rendering just fine for me. (In fact it's been chugging along for a couple of days now on a complex IBL/AO scene. Slow, yes; but it does work.)
And in general you don't need anything like the old MacConverter anymore. But fmorgan has both freeware for converting Windows rsr previews to Mac form and a marketplace program (Mac Poser Browser Pro) to install runtime packages and browse your Poser runtime. They work well, though they don't do everything I'd like to see. (But then, while I've thought of trying to write such a beast myself, I never have time to get serious about it; and I'm quite happy to support our fmorgan in the meantime. ;-) )
