AntoniaTiger opened this issue on Aug 06, 2009 · 9 posts
AntoniaTiger posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 4:41 AM
I'm not sure just why it's started happening now, but I'm having trouble exporting items from Poser 6 as a .obj file. The selection of options has stopped working, so I can turn on and off the two options which are on by default, but not change the options which are default-off. This includes the "as morph target" option.
The same thing seems to be happening with P5.
Running on Windows XP. Maybe an upgrade/patch is responsible.
I am not rushing to the P8 upgrade.
Things were working a few months back when I frankensteined Aiko 3 with the Melody figure to get version without a built-in tail.
EnglishBob posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 5:42 AM
If I remember rightly, OBJ export is handled by a plug-in. A reinstallation may be called for.
ockham posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 5:56 AM
If it's happening in both 5 and 6, it can't be the plugin FFOBJ.ARP, because
that's not shared. Unless a virus has corrupted both of them, which seems
unlikely. (But oddly, a number of viruses have ARP in their name!)
You might try doing a System Restore to an earlier date, to see if a system
DLL is the culprit.
TrekkieGrrrl posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 8:15 AM
I remember something about the obj exporter losing focus.
Try clicking on the Start menu bar and then on Poser again to regain focus. I vaguely remember someone reporting that the option boxes were now selectable again. Doesn't make any sense of course but it's worth a try :)
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ockham posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 8:32 AM
I remember that too, now that you mention it. Definitely worth a try.
ockham posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 8:32 AM
I remember that too, now that you mention it. Definitely worth a try.
EnglishBob posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 8:47 AM
Quote - I remember that too, now that you mention it. Definitely worth a try.
Um, yeah, so do I. Now that you mention it. :-) The thing to do, I believe, was to switch to another window - if you didn't have one open, then Notepad would do, anything really as long as it takes the "focus" (in OS terms) away from Poser.
AntoniaTiger posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 10:56 AM
That one's actually buried in the release notes for one of the P6 upgrades.
This may be the point at which I end up trying Linux and WINE, rather than trying to figure which security patch on Windows might be responsible.
AntoniaTiger posted Thu, 06 August 2009 at 5:42 PM
I've still no idea why the problem started happening, but the "loss of focus" workround does work.