Well my memory bug problem APPEARS to be solved but now I have a NEW one! 1 hour into P6 after installing SR1 and I have a bug that I did NOT have before....It would seam I can no longer use 'dynamic' hair! When I try to load any dynamic hair poser hangs (see pics)'Doesn't happen with any other hair, just dynamic hair??? Any Ideas?

What about if you are in the Hair room?

Yep! same thing?

Does the hair item your trying to load have a pre-calculated simulation, i.e. a .DYN file ?

Try loading one of the P6 hairs (doesn't matter for which figure).

If you can load the P6 hair, then I think the problem is due to a change in format of the .DYN files.

To confirm this save a copy of the item and the .DYN file(s), then edit the hair file to remove any "hairCacheFile" lines, and then try to load.
If the item loads, calculate the simulation, save, close Poser and try reloading.

This appears to be the case with pre-SR1 dynamic cloth sims as well. I've lost a lot of work to SR1. :-( I haven't yet tried running brand new sims yet but will tonight.

Checking now to see if it's the same change.

Look's like you've nailed it! Jesse' hair loads super fast and renders super fast. I'll now try what you suggest and see how it goes. Thanks Guy's

The hair cache file problem was in P5 as well. When I found it, all of the P5 hair at RDNA was updated to reflect that. In general, any dynamic hair file needs to have the lines removed.

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Yep, it the same small change in the .DYN files.
It's easily fixable, so anyone want to be a Guinea Pig when I get a script done ?

I don't get a hang / crash when using old files with an updated P6, but I'm going to post the script anyway.

It will create a modified copy of .DYN file, which will be written to a file of the same name but with .FIX appended.
You'll then need to rename / move the original .DYN and rename the .FIX to .DYN

Do NOT use the modified files with an unupdated P6 (I'm sure it will confuse it or worse).

Incidently, did they change Jessi at all, did anyone notice?

Is that dynamic hair? I've never even tried using that, lol. That looks great though! Will have to look into those P6 dynamic hairs... I noticed that one of my MAT pose files caused pose 6 sr1 to wander off into never never land...I'm not sure what it was about that file, but P6 didn't like it. eric

Jim, from the install log it doesn't appear to any figure changes. Just some face room tweaks maybe? From logfile: Copied File: d:poser 6RuntimeheadsJessiHighResjessiTransparency.png Copied File: d:poser 6RuntimeheadsJessiHighResJessiHiRes_eag_t.ph5

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blonde moment here.....how do i apply the script to p6?

"I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away"

The readme says no content changes at all.

If your having not problems after updating don't bother with the script.

It's also not clear whether the problem was due to the change in format, or just a missing .DYN file, so I'd suggest you only use it when a cloth or hair sim that was Ok before the update isn't working after it.

If you decide you want to use it, save the script file (right click on link) and rename it "FixDyn.py" (can be anything so long as it's .py)

There are two ways to actually run the script :-
File menu, select Run Python Script.
or add it to a button in the Python Palette, Windows menu, select Python Scripts, click on a spare button (this will assign the script to that button until you close Poser).

When you run the script you get a file dialog, select the file to modify.
The script will write a new file in the same directory.
(E.g. if you select abc.dyn, you will get abc.dyn.fix)
Now rename abc.dyn to (say) abc.dyn.orig, and rename abc.dyn.fix to abc.dyn (sorry about the manual renaming, I'll probably update the script if the problem is confirmed as the change of format).
You can now load the item or scene that the .DYN belongs to.

You can always return to the original .DYN file by deleting the new one and renaming the copy.

But the ReadMe also says

File I/O

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- Dynamic cache files are now cross platform compatible even for large objects
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This had me worried as it might have affected something I'm doing at work, so I looked into it.
I don't know what the extra 8 bytes are for, but they were the same for all the hair and cloth sim files I compared between the original and updated versions.

thanks.....will keep this incase I need it....many thanks

"I didn't lose my mind, it was mine to give away"

Hey, this sound's like tech'y stuff to me but i'll see if i can't follow your direction's. Thank's Noel