Attached Link: Here's a tutorial

Just a small tutorial that will perhaps help a little for those wishing to link their Poser 4 Runtime or even a third or fourth one in Poser 5. -darlisa

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I ran through the manual info and got the folder icon to show up, but no figures when clicked on the icon. I'll have to try this.

ah, that worked. Thanks. Now to get busy organizing.

Woohoo! Glad it helped.

Thanks a lot. You're building a nice set of really useful tutorials.

You're welcome and thank you. I've gotten so much from the Bryce/Poser community, that I do my best to give something in return.

Thanks for giving in return. I started out here on the bryce forum a few years ago and am greatful for the help. Since then I have put up some tuts and answered a lot of questions for the folks who are new. I've been brycing since 98 or earlier. I'm back in the newbe side on poser cuz I just bought poser/pp in May. Guess its a happy cycle.

Thank You SO much Jelisa,it worked great!Now do you know how I can adjust Windows98SE to give me the appropriate memory to use Poser?LOL.If I can't do you know what version of Windows works best with Poser?Thanks again.:o)

Artist3D Win98/ME has very poor memory managment for an app like Poser. Its an OS limitation, and there is little you can do for it. You may want to get Windows XP or Windows 2000 which have far superior memory capabilities. Getting XP was the best thing I ever did for Poser. Very nice of you jelisa...don't have P5 yet, but nice to have some bookmarks ready for when I get it!

I was able to link my Poser 4 runtime directory to Poser 5 without any problem. But I have noticed that Poser 5 doesn't seem to be able to find the textures for the Poser figures I load from the Poser 4 runtime folder. Or more accurately, it doesn't seem to be able to find the first one. After I show it where the first one is, then it seems to find the others okay. Problem is, sometimes I'M not sure where the first one is. There are SO many directories. Does yours work like this, or is there some setting I missed? I also noticed that when I load certain figures - like I have a mermaid tail that I got from DNA and I followed the instructions to set the figure up in Poser 4 and saved it to my poser 4library (This all occured before I got Poser 5)- that I get the tail without the millenium figure. I'm guessing this happens because Vicki and Mike are located in the poser 4 library and the mermaid is a composite, so it doesn't know where to find the other parts.

Well didn't work for me, wth am I doing wrong? Marque

Ok, I was selecting the runtime directory and that's why it wouldn't work. I chose the Poser directory and now they are there. Thanks so much, this was making me crazy...er. {8^| Marque

Artist3D, scifiguy said it best. Win98SE is not known for its memory management. I have WinXP Pro, but Win2K would do as well and upgrading would not be a bad idea, in my opinion anyway. Win98SE was very unstable on my machine, as was WinME. XP gives me very little trouble.

Attached Link: TextWhiz

MeinOhio, I really don't know anything about the problem with the tail not coming in, that's beyond me. Perhaps someone else has a solution for you. As for not finding the textures, I'm adding to the tutorial right now. Poser 5 seems to be not only case sensitive, but pathname sensitive. I gave this example in another thread, but will repeat it here so you don't have to go find it. I applied a MAT pose file to Victoria using one of their MAT pose files and it worked perfectly. I then applied a MAT pose file from the Sakari package and it started asking me to locate the textures. After comparing the two files in WordPad, I noticed that the DAZ file used a relative pathname, ":Runtime:textures:DAZ:..." while the Sakari file used a full pathname, "C:Program FilesMetacreationsPoser 4RuntimetexturesSakari Textures..." Since my Poser 4 is in "D:Poser 4", this pathname didn't exist. Using a multiple file replacement tool, I changed the full pathname to ":Runtime:textures:Sakari Textures:..." and the MAT pose files then worked perfectly. You can either use one of those text replacement tools that does multiple files at once, but you'll need to open the pose files to find the pathnames, or you'll need to use one of the tools available that will go fix the pathnames for you. I'm not sure what tools are available though, anyone else know?

#8- CL website has a link to a little program called Cacheman that's supposed to allocate memory for Windows pre 2000. I haven't tried it yet but that's what they're recommending for those that don't want to move to xp. It's under support, utilities, windows. http://www.curiouslabs.com/

Jelisa, thanks for the tip on how to modify the files. I was going to go through them and replace with the exact file location. Now it looks like I can just do relative paths instead. I have Cr2Edit to modify my files. Kevin

Thanks HSStud.I would update to Win XP but then 80% of my other expensive older programs WON'T work.That is what the guy at CompUSA said.Damn,I can't win! LOL