Since Daz was so kind to give us all their base figures, has anybody made available a runtime template for us slow learners....I have searched the forms and Googled Multipal runtimes just to find broken links, pictures missing, interuptions of tut flow, etc....I good template and step by step instructions (with no sidetracks) sure could help a lot of people..Why can't we just get something like this from the Poser people...

Thanks for any help
Poser V7.

Do you mean how to set up an external runtime?

If so, do a search for Acadia here in the forum and you'l find all of her tutorial listings.

It's really pretty easy.  The problem is that most people over think it.  

Just remember that an external runtime is exactly the same as the runtime in your Poser folder, only it's just sitting in a different location.  

All "multiple runtimes" mean is that you have more than 1 runtime IE: 50 like I do,  LOL

It functions exactly the same way as the runtime in your poser folder.

And files are installed / added to them in exactly the same way. 

And they have the same folders in them as the main runtime does. Well almost the same folders.  Scripts for example have to be installed into the main Poser runtime and won't work from an external runtime.

Here is a sample of an external runtime.  Simply download it and unzip it. You will have a folder called "Runtime_Sample"

www.divshare.com/download/8531562-1f6

Find a place on your hard drive that you want to have your external runtimes living. For me it's on my partitioned drive D.

Make a folder called "Poser Runtimes"

s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/Acadia_ca/

Then simply copy that sample runtime you unzipped into that "Poser Runtimes" folder and make as many copies of it as you want to.  Change "Runtime_Sample" to whatever name you want.  Here is what I named some of mine:

s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/Acadia_ca/

Then all you do is simply install your content into whichever runtime you feel it fits best into.

Once you have finished installing your content look in the Runtimes where you have Daz characters such as V3 or V4 etc.  Go into the Library folder and look for the !DAZ folder.  Make a COPY of that folder and place the COPY in exactly the same place in the main Poser Runtime. 

Poser looks there first so by placing a copy of them in there, you are helping Poser out.  Don't delete the !DAZ folder from your other runtimes though. That defeats the purpose of having external runtimes, which is not only to allow Poser to work faster, organize your content better, but also to not lose your installed runtime content in the even of a crash because hopefully you have also saved your external runtimes to a couple other places for easy access in case of the need to reinstall.

Hope that helps.  If you have more questions, just ask.

Oh yeah, never install anything directly to your runtime. Always unzip / install to a folder on your desk top so you can see what is in side and what the folder structure is.

Here is another tutorial if the above doesn't help you.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2750159

That was very well explained, Acadia... there were things I learned from that, and I thought I pretty much understood the runtime thing. Thanks so much for that, Acadia. :)

Acadia> Thank you very much for your time and knowledge...If you ever need a Dragon slayed, Im here for you
Richard

Victoria Lee:
I find your Big Brother Obama signature rather disturbing, in fact theres another thread going on here talking about how unsettling those signatures are, Im not sure if it was in referece to you or not.

It's a joke and doesn't collect any information.  You should read JenX's response to the traffic and go from there.

BTW - I've been using this since before he was elected President.

In case anybody cares, I changed my sigline image.  Hope you're all happy!

haha..a gay ant eater is certainly more comical!

What can I say?  I'm a child of the 60's and he's definitely colorful.