Stunch opened this issue on Sep 21, 2016 ยท 27 posts
Stunch posted Wed, 21 September 2016 at 5:50 PM
Hey all - I upgraded to Poser 11 a while ago and am only now trying to (manually) install Victoria 4.2 with all her morphs. I've managed to get every individual morph to load and they all work fine - but I can't seem to get any of her full-body morphs (Base, ++, Elite) to work. When I select the top of the hierarchy ("Body") I've got nothing. I can only morph individual body parts. What in the world could I be doing wrong?
willshetterly posted Wed, 21 September 2016 at 11:00 PM
Do you know if you have V4 installed in more than one runtime? I understand that can cause trouble.
hborre posted Thu, 22 September 2016 at 8:56 AM
Has V4 been initialized after installation?
Stunch posted Thu, 22 September 2016 at 4:44 PM
willshetterly posted at 5:44PM Thu, 22 September 2016 - #4284296
Do you know if you have V4 installed in more than one runtime? I understand that can cause trouble.
No, I know that I do not. Just the one.
Stunch posted Thu, 22 September 2016 at 4:48 PM
hborre posted at 5:47PM Thu, 22 September 2016 - #4284325
Has V4 been initialized after installation?
I'm running a MacPro and I don't think I can run the .bat app to do that. And I have never had to do it before. Is there a Mac equivalent, do you know?
nerd posted Thu, 22 September 2016 at 9:53 PM Forum Moderator
I don't have a good answer here maybe a PC emulator to run the BAT files? Sadly all those convoluted EXP injections files have been unnecessary since Poser 6.
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 4:26 AM
In the same place where the bat file is there is also a .command file (actually 2 one for v4 and one for v4 to v3) which is the mac version of a bat file.
it is in the /Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/ folder
in my mac the full paths are: /Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit; and: /Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4V3.command ; exit;
If you correct the path to reflect your setup you could also just paste the above commands into your terminal at it will create/ initialize the files
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 4:57 AM
sorry one mistake if you run form the terminal you need a slash in front of the !DAZ so the correct path is: /Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4V3.command ; exit; and: /Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit;
or just double click the .command file in the folder itself.
Stunch posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 8:35 AM
david_macrae posted at 9:35AM Fri, 23 September 2016 - #4284466
sorry one mistake if you run form the terminal you need a slash in front of the !DAZ so the correct path is: /Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4V3.command ; exit; and: /Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit;
or just double click the .command file in the folder itself.
Fantastic! I'm on it!
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 8:47 AM
I meant backslash so it looks like this "/!DAZ/" as the ! needs to be escaped anyway I just noticed that this forum keeps deleting the escape backslash every time I post it. very strange. I did type it correctly then I corrected myself only to find it messed up again at so I am trying things here to see what works maybe quotes. because if you cut and paste the command into the terminal on a mac it will not work without the back slash.
"/Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit;"
without quotes
/Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit;
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 8:49 AM
Yes ok so I just noticed that no matter how I do it this forum software deletes all backslashes that are used for escaping characters after a forward slash. very strange.
so with spaces it looks like this: / ! DAZ
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 8:52 AM
The backslash disappeared there as well. now I dont get it it is not possible to and I used spaces so it should have worked. this is very annoying. ok how about
/--!DAZ
and remove the dashes
ngsf posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 8:53 AM
Do we have to still use the V4 as the main character figure in Poser 11? Is there new figure available in the new Poser? If I buy the Poser 11, what main characters should I use?Still the old V4?
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:02 AM
Ahh I get it. The forum is probably running stripslashes. So no back slashes allowed "well a pain if we try to use code snippets."
anyway sorry if I confused anyone. you can just fint the .command file and click on it.
@ngsf there are manny poser native characters including Paul and Pauline which are the newest characters in Poser 11. This thread was specifically asking aabout V4 on a mac computer.
I personally use her a lot as well as A3 and m4 and H3. as well as many other figures including those that come with natively with Poser.
raven posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:06 AM
To get a backslash to show you have to input a double backslash.
If you type a single one (example: ) it may disappear. If you type 2 (example: \ ) a single one shows.
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:46 AM
@raven thanks.
so the correct command on my computer everything between the quotes: "/Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit;"
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:46 AM
/Users/Shared/v4/Runtime/libraries/!DAZ/DzCreateExPFiles-V4.command ; exit;
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:47 AM
It still strips it out for me.
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:48 AM
\
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:48 AM
It must be because of the context
david_macrae posted Fri, 23 September 2016 at 9:53 AM
because It still strips them in the command string so I just cannot type any code that requires a backslash oh well I was just trying to make it easier to paste into the terminal window.
Well a person would have to check the path first anyway. :-(
Boni posted Sat, 24 September 2016 at 2:45 PM
You could use a text editor and a screenshot ... just a quick work around.
Boni
"Be Hero to Yourself" -- Peter Tork
Stunch posted Tue, 04 October 2016 at 8:40 AM
Well, I think I did everything right and every file is where it's supposed to be. But when I try to run the .command file to initialize V4.2, I'm told I don't have the correct permissions to run it. I checked the permissions on the file and I do, indeed, have full read & write permissions, but it still won't run. Just for kicks, I made a duplicate of the file, and that actually opened and ran in Terminal. But the operation will not complete. It gets most of the way through and simply stops. I've re-downloaded the file a couple of times, cleared everything and started from scratch, with no result. Have to admit, I'm running out of ideas.
Boni posted Tue, 04 October 2016 at 10:12 AM
Have you linked to other runtimes with V4 installed? You need to only have V4 installed in one runtime ... just in case that might be a conflict.
Boni
"Be Hero to Yourself" -- Peter Tork
Stunch posted Tue, 04 October 2016 at 11:51 AM
Just the one, unless I'm sadly confused. I'll keep double checking everything
Boni posted Tue, 04 October 2016 at 12:32 PM
Just covering all our bases, it does cause problems if there is more than one.
Boni
"Be Hero to Yourself" -- Peter Tork
david_macrae posted Tue, 04 October 2016 at 5:21 PM
Try repairing permissions on your Macintosh HD with the disc utility in your utilities folder. I seem to remember I had a similar issue once.