When trying to see the Hydra in texture mode in the document window Poser 5 generates this error: "Exception Handler Caught C exception:exception access_violation trapped at 1b:1f62075" After I click OK I get a preview like the included image. Trying to render the Hydra brings up the same error message and Poser render locks, I hit cancel and it locks on canceling. This is Poser 5 with the latest patch running on a windows 2000 system

I am installing my old poeser libary in a new way in poser 5, and i used poser 5 for a lot of old characters and textures, and till now i had also many errors like you discribe

The problem with the Hydra is the textures. They are bigger than Poser 5 can handle. If you reduce the resolution of the texture maps by 20%, they should work fine. The body textures are at 5000x5000 and the head textures are at 2000x2000. Make them 4000x4000 for the body, and 1600x1600 for the heads. The C exception errors should stop.

That did the trick Jcleaver, lowering the resolution of the maps got rid of the exception errors! Thanks!

Same problem I had. Like I said in my post though strange that P4 handles the Hydra Fine. I'm not so sure it's the Textures though Now since installing the patch I am get those exception errors on tons of my mat poses and on any character I've saved to my libraries with Tex maps.

maybe a guess. in firefly render the texturesize is limited.look in the left lower of the renderoption menue. in ff draft mode to 1000 and ff productionmode to about 4000. maybe that causes the problem. but i think one can change this manually ( didnt try it till now) only wondering why textures looked so crappy in draftmode before i realised it :-((

"The problem with the Hydra is the textures. They are bigger than Poser 5 can handle." There is a fix for this C -Exception in the next SR release. Thanks, -Brian Romero aka Default Guy

I resized my hydra maps 20% body 4000x4000 Head 1600x1600 So the seems match up someone else suggested that res. (Sorry Can't think of who it was now). Not to pick on P5 I really like it. But eveyone keeps saying the textures are the problem that they are too big for Firefly. I disagree I think they are too big for P5. If firefly was the problem then why is the error generated as soon as you apply the maps and not at render time? Also why is there a option for texture resolution. It's a no brainer that P5 is P4 with value added and not new from the ground up, but why does Hydra load and render fine in P4 no errors what so ever. And chokes P5. Also if you go to the materials room P5 locks up. Again for the money what P5 brings to the table is impressive to say the least in my opionion. I'm just annoyed at a few things here and there.

Well, I never got the error until I hit the render button. But, it apparently is going to be fixed with the next patch, so all is well (I hope).