hey all,

I'm having a problem with some content from DAZ that they seem to be unwilling to help me out with because I have not gotten a response from them at all.

The problem is with some of the Daz main figure morphs....M4 Muscle, M4 Morphs++, The girl,  and a few others.

this is what I'm using:

Poser Pro 2010, W7 64

I get the error message:

With Poser TM, "Michael 4 Muscle Morphs" must be installed to the same directory as the application executible; due to restrictions on support locations. Please select the directory that contains your poser executable.

It does not matter if my poser folder is selected or I manualy re-select the folder I just get this error....which I don't get if I'm loading something like hair or clothing.

any help or a work-around would be great since it looks like Daz is unwilling to help.

Did you run the "Initialize" file after installing V4 and M4?

Do you have M4 installed to the main Poser runtime or to an external runtime?

Are all the morph packs installed to the same runtime?  The Muscle morphs must be installed to the same runtime as the regular M4 morphs.   

In whatever runtime you have M4 installed to, you should find a folder labelled !DAZ inside the library folder.  Open it up and run the .bat files for M4 you find there.

A last thing to try if you are using an external runtime is to copy the PoserPro.exe to the external runtime and rename it Poser.exe.  For some reason in the early days of V4/M4, there were issues because the Pro versions of Poser used PoserPro.exe and the other versions of Poser used Poser.exe.

Like icprncss2 mentioned, some DAZ content looks for Poser.exe in the runtime you are installing some of the gen4 content to. I've been able to use an "empty" text file with the name Poser.exe and everything works fine for me. I don't think you actually need a real poser executable (saves a little bit on disk space using the empty text file). Just open notepad, save the default file to your external runtime, then rename it to Poser.exe and everything should work.

Ditto on the solution post above.

that text file thing worked!!! You guys ROCK!!! thanks!!!

Brian

Simply selecting DAZ Studio as the target application will skip the check for poser.exe. It doesn't make any difference to the files installed.