Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser crashes

rokket opened this issue on Jul 07, 2019 ยท 8 posts


rokket posted Sun, 07 July 2019 at 9:33 AM

I had this problem before and I don't remember how I fixed it: I will build a scene, work on the textures, do a render, save the scene as I go... Then the next time I attempt to open the scene Poser crashes.

I am not sure what is causing the problem. I am going to attempt to do something that will take a lot of time, but I think it will help me figure out what is going on: I will load the scene one object at a time, save it, close it, and then attempt to reopen and see what happens. If it's one of my props making the program crash I will have to take a close look at it and figure out why it's happening.

I don't think I am going beyond the capabilities of my computer or the program with a single figure and 6 dynamic clothing items, so that isn't the cause.

I have a feeling it's one of my props. In fact I can probably pick out the culprit right now. This is more of a rant that a search for answers. I am just frustrated with Poser right now between the U/I scaling issue and everything else that has been happening the last few days.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.


an0malaus posted Sun, 07 July 2019 at 9:42 AM

Can you verify whether the file is corrupted (i.e. has been truncated while saving) by looking to see that it ends with a close brace at the beginning of the last line?

If you're using Notepad++ it will automatically cope with compressed Poser scene .pzz files.



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rokket posted Sun, 07 July 2019 at 10:01 AM

I can't now because I deleted that scene. It never occurred to me to open it in an editor and take a look at it. I wouldn't have known what to look for anyhow.

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an0malaus posted Sun, 07 July 2019 at 10:58 AM

I have a particular clothing figure, made long ago, that occasionally causes Poser to throw a fit and explode vertices all over the place whenever a limb is bent. It doesn't crash Poser, but I certainly can't render the scene with that piece of clothing visible. Strangely, it doesn't occur every time. Just sometimes.



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rokket posted Sun, 07 July 2019 at 1:20 PM

I am still thinking it's one of my props. I think it might be the suit. I am going to take it into Wings and see if I have any intersecting polys or isolated vertices. Sometimes this will cause problems, especially with a cloth sim. It might be causing the glitch in the scene.

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rokket posted Sun, 07 July 2019 at 1:30 PM

As I suspected. There were some isolated vertices, and when I took it into Blender, I had about 900 duplicates. I removed them and I am going to try again to see if that was the issue.

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an0malaus posted Mon, 08 July 2019 at 1:05 AM

If you have success with that, It may be the path I need to take with my problem figure.



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rokket posted Mon, 08 July 2019 at 7:24 AM

That was the problem. It was either the isolated verts or the duplicate polys. The scene isn't making Poser crash either way.

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