So I decide that I want to do a nice render of a new character I  have done today..... since she  is V4 .2 using  morphs from about every morph set except elite (they haven't sold me on that one yet) she cant wear normal conforming clothing ....(I still have yet to  figure out  WW2 lol  I need to figure that one out  and start using it along with  PhilC's clothing creator sets lol)....... So I decide to put a dynamic tunic on her.

I run the cloth sim and its looking good so I fall asleep in my chair while the sim runs. When I wake up, she looks great but then I turn the camera and find that the back of the tunic is balled up into a frigging knot! the front view would have been ok but I had planned on a side view. the side view clearly showed the ball of  garbage the tunic had become.

I figured what the hell Ill do a front render because it does look good from the front, but first I want to delete the keyframe that is causing the camera to rotate around the figure when I  move the  animation slider ............. somehow when I deleted the  keyframe on the camera it instead DELETES THE POSE DATA!!!!!!!!!!!................. By this time I am completely wide awake and cursing a blue streak.

I finally calm down enough to find that the damned camera keyframe is still there and then I think screw it its not that bad its times like this that undo is for.......WRONG!!! I use undo several times and nothing  brings the pose back  so now I am back to square frigging one!

Sometimes I frigging HATE poser.

One word..... SAVE! Save multiple version of your scene when you make major changes, so you can revert back to whatever you need.

If you do that then frustrations like these will be in the past for you.

Here... hate DS instead for a minute:

Conforming has issues in the latest build.
ERC has issues in all versions.
Scaling has issues in all versions
Mat poses MUST see Poser acompanying pz2 files, otherwise they don't even show up.

Least poser doesn't have these issues at ALL!

I normally save every time I have significant differences from the previous saved version, but this time I didn't. pProbably because I was still half asleep due to my unscheduled nap lol.

OK, then you're allowed to rant on :-)

*Garee: Here... hate DS instead for a minute:

*:thumbupboth:

Quote - ... but first I want to delete the keyframe that is causing the camera to rotate around the figure when I  move the  animation slider ............

The way Poser automatically keyframes everything all the time is just exasperating. Any half-decent animation program should let you specify what you want to keyframe.

It helps minimize the nasty surprises if you turn off animation on all cameras and lights in a blank scene and then set that as the preferred state in prefs. Then if you really want to animate a cam or a light it's easy to turn it on.

Finally got the cloth sim to run properly I should have it rendered some time today too.

Poser has Poser 4 renderer which is much faster than DS plus it has shadow mapping and bump map too. Poser RULES!!!

Finally got it done

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1711761

This is what was giving me such trouble all day ... first a mistake that cost me an hour cloth simulation and then a 5 hour render lol.

checked nudity because some may consider the render in my link nudity even though shes not really showing anything but sideboob :P