Digital 3D art / V4.1 - wtf??? / FyreGarnett 17 years ago

V4.1 - wtf???

I went ahead and downloaded the updates and installed them. spent some time this weekend working up a couple of new pieces using V4.1. they looked great and all that, had to go, saved them and walked away. came back later.... nothing.

posert acts like it's opening the file, but there is no image box. if i try to open something else it asks if i want to save my changes??? wtf??? changes? i can't even see the durn thing!

apparantly i'm not the only one having issues with this update - did some poking round at a few of the forums. unfortuneatly, the only solution that seems to be offered is to uninstall and go back to V4.

i have tried to open a bunch of other stuff and as long as V4.1 is not in it, it opens just like it's supposed too....

anyone have any ideas or fixes???

P.S. - thank sartori for pointing me in this direction!!! you were right on the money!!

Adiene 17 years ago

Yeah it happens to me , Ususaly if I run a test render like in the cornor or something then go back to pose tab I can see stuff again . Donno if it will help you are not tho , but hey.. worth a shot I guess hehe

FyreGarnett 17 years ago

have to try that on the older images it's actin up on. Sartori had a suggestion that works on new images, though it's kind of irritating to have to mess with the preferences on any image i do that i use V4 on.

patslash 17 years ago

sincerely, when i saw i had to install her in the basic poser runtime i closed the installation. i don't need an update, i guess, v4 works fine with me and i dont use her that much too
i hope however that they resolve the issue, it's really frustrating when an update comes out, which should better the product, not the contrary

Vex 17 years ago

i believe the issue may be that you're using external binary morph targets. turn those off inside your general preferences.

v4.1 is optional and is only needed if you are loading a ton of morphs ( like the muscle and the creature morphs )

FyreGarnett 17 years ago

i think my real irritation here is that Daz released this making it sound like an update. not being a hardcore user in the first place, i didn't have a clue what it was doing and why it needed to be updated. since it really didn't have a basic english reasoning spelled out, i assumed it was like a bug-fix thing.

instead, i get massive headaches and irritations.

it was the ext binary thingamajigger - like i have a clue what that is, what it does, or why i might use it. though i did pick up the creature pack, so i may end up needing it after all...

whatever happened to keeping things relatively simple???

Vex 17 years ago

well i uh.. posted a thread about v4.1 in te crayon box. =x

external binary morph targets = the .pmd files, aka "poser morph data". its somehow supposed to shrink filesize, or some nonsense, but i think i'd rather keep the data in 1 file than in 2. so yeah.

go read the v4.1 thread in crayon box, it'll help clear up some issues. i'll amend it about the external binary morphs too.

FyreGarnett 17 years ago

assuming i found the right thread, i don't feel so bad! if it was "hovering 10 ft above your head" there was no way i was gonna figure this out at the rate i was going!!!

i did go looking for this thread, cuz i remembered seeing something about this, was pretty sure it was from you, but since it didn't talk about the darn thing wigging out and i had done exactly what you had outlined... well, i figured the problem was at my end and went poking around the other forums... and the more i read, the more irked i got. thank goodness Sartori had had the same problem, which did fix the idiocy i was engaging in!!

i just think daz could have handled this better from their end. end of my bitching!!

thanks for the help!

Janthin 17 years ago

That 'external binary morph target' nonsense has been a problem since they introduced it in Poser 6. It crashes, it screws up files, you lose work. Yeah, turn it off, for sure, and leave it off. Note that this is not DAZs fault, really, it's a Poser issue. The only time you need it on is if you are purposefully creating .pmd files with morphs in them you want to distribute. Otherwise, fuggedaboudit.

I've been using V 4.1 without any problems.

Vex 17 years ago

even when i make morph inj's i extract the data out of a cr2. sure its a lot to fish through but fuck pmds