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edit: note to self... never assume that you are posting to something directly
before your post because invariably it will turn out to be pages earlier...
this was in reference to the sand painting video...
woah... i liked the, 'you've got a friend', one... neat :) thanks for posting that, dy. i'll have to go see all of them...
we are just waiting to hear on domain. the techs at host gator worked on it
live over the phone. if i could rate them plus 20 stars i would. really nice guys.
will check on tuesday and see if it went through.
thanks to everyone wishing me well and praying. hi, terre. my 24 hour bug
was like 24 hour 5 days or more. budget cuts? everything taking longer these
days. but, at least i'm not the new daz forum ;)
makes you grateful, doesn't it?
warning, they are trying to charge tax, and for calif. it's illegal...
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Xaa said:celticfire said:
Ok you guys thanks so much!. Yeah right now still trying to figure out how to get Poser to load my runtime. It's only detecting two sets by Xurge, but I know I've chosen the right runtime, I've checked five times now. grrrr so aggravated.
Unfortunately, you will have to rebuild the runtime in a folder structure that Poser can recognize and access. DAZ set up studio from the beginning so that it can recognize and open Poser runtimes, but the runtimes it creates, even with poser-compatible items, cannot be seen by Poser because the folders are not named the same nor are they in the same directory tree structure. As Suro already said, this is immensely tedious - but, once done, it is definitely worth the hassle.
Poser doesn't care how many runtimes you have, but every runtime you have must follow this structure of folder naming and hierarchy:
Runtime
- Geometries
- Textures
- Libraries
- - Camera
- - Face
- - Hair
- - Hand
- - Light
- - Materials
- - Pose
- - Props
If it's a figure of any kind (including conforming clothing), it goes under the "character" folder. If it's a prop of any kind (I.E. it doesn't have a bone hierarchy), it goes under the "props" folder, and so on. You can have any number of sub-folders beneath these folders in any arrangement you like, but Poser needs this root hierarchy and division of items to find stuff.
Ugh, wow this is turning in to a pain, but I understand now. I think I'm actually mentally kicking myself for never forcing myself to sit down and learn Poser from the get go cause that's what everyone was telling me to do. Now that I'm learning the main interface it actually makes more sense than the first go round, wonder why?
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction Xaa! So you're saying I'm going to essentially have two runtimes on my harddrive? If so I think I'll just say bye bye to Daz and rebuild my entire runtime for the poser format and just move it to poser's runtime.
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Characters = .cr2 files.
Props = .pp2 files
poses = .pz2 files
hands = .hd2 files
cameras = .cm2 files
hair props = .hr2 files
Materials = .mt5 or mt6 files
Face files = .fc2 files
light files = .lt2 files.
So, characters are *anything* ending in .cr2. Really, anything; don't care if it's a set or a person or an animal or a tank, it's something that is rigged. This flexibility is sort of why pose files can be either material pose or figure pose files.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
In fact, back in the day, before poser .mt5 and.mt6 files and multiple runtimes, when we were overrun with materials poses, we'd change the extension on them to .cm2 and put them in Cameras. They still worked. I don't recommend doing this now; it's not necessary and it confuses matters.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Celtic: no, you don't need two runtimes. Once you optimize your runtimes for Poser (and while doing so organize and clean them), you can point Studio to these updated runtimes and everything will be fine. Keep installing studio content into the relevant folders, and you'll be set.
I have two folders, a "shadow" folder with subfolders with the same names as my runtimes for the zips and installers. And the actual content folder with subfolders containing my runtimes, thus:
Studio3 [the main content folder -- so named before I switched to Poser]
- Animals
- - Animals - Air
- - - Runtime
Readmes and random stuff like templates
- - Amimals - Fantasy
- - - Runtime
Readmes and random stuff like templates
etc
I unzip or install into the specific subfolder "Animals - Air" or "Amimals - Fantasy" (etc) and I have no problems.
How you break up your categories is up to you.
Someone might recommend a plugin or library manager, but I'm cheap and I'd rather buy content and do this myself.
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Nanobot said:
Characters = .cr2 files.
Props = .pp2 files
poses = .pz2 files
hands = .hd2 files
cameras = .cm2 files
hair props = .hr2 files
Materials = .mt5 or mt6 files
Face files = .fc2 files
light files = .lt2 files.
So, characters are *anything* ending in .cr2. Really, anything; don't care if it's a set or a person or an animal or a tank, it's something that is rigged. This flexibility is sort of why pose files can be either material pose or figure pose files.
Quoted for emphasis.
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celticfire said:
So you're saying I'm going to essentially have two runtimes on my harddrive? If so I think I'll just say bye bye to Daz and rebuild my entire runtime for the poser format and just move it to poser's runtime.
If you mean "I'd have to have a DAZ runtime and a Poser runtime", the answer is maybe. DAZ can read Poser runtimes (though it sometimes doesn't want to), but Poser can't read DAZ runtimes.
As for me, I have one main runtime which is now floating around three hundred gig, and smaller specialized runtimes for character development and other things. With the current version of Poser I'm using (Poser Pro 2012), this is not an issue. With the previous version I was using (Poser 7), my main runtime was getting too large for Poser7 to use - it took five minutes just for Poser to scan the runtime and build the access tables. That's "click to open the program, then walk off because it won't do anything for five minutes", so, yeah, I needed to upgrade. The newer version doesn't have this problem because it uses a different library system.
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Studio really can read Poser runtimes, but it tends to add files to the folder above the "runtime" folder (or the folder containing the "runtime" folder) -- though not always -- for Studio-specific files.
This doesn't interfere with either program's reading of the runtimes (or with Carrara's reading of the runtimes, as far as I can tell).
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Happy Memorial Day. This is also Hug Your Veteran Day. *hugs* to Xaa! (and to my Kay)
This is more for LT..."Come for Tea" podcast. http://www.harwoodpodcast.com/comefortea on the web.
"If you love the art of Tea (or would like to know a bit more!) this is the
podcast for you! Host Cindy Harris will show you how to brew tea and
make scones, along with some wonderful afternoon tea ideas that will
help you connect with the people in your life."
LT has absolutely no problems connecting with people, but he IS a hella good baker. I know this! This is mostly about the goodies that accompany teatime, English style.
Great. Now I'm hungry again.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
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* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Another non-DAZ male figure being sculpted for Poser. We might want to follow this, too.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2846060&page=1
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Nanobot said:
Another non-DAZ male figure being sculpted for Poser. We might want to follow this, too.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2846060&page=1
very interesting. The traps and lats are nicely defined, for sure. Now if only he could wear m4 clothing... -
Yes, there is the whole "nothing to wear" issue. But heck, he's not even rigged yet. Well, not as far as I got in the thread.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Well... BoA couldn't tell me much as to why my info was compromised, they just said over and over everything was fine now. *sigh* I'll try to take their word for it then.I like Lucas' face, :) Not drop dead gorgeous, but handsome.How's everyone?
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Not bad, AP, not bad here. Struggling to have a day off from House Stuff. Posted a Vue scene in "Other Noir," just a little tidbit.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Ugh... house stuff... not fun, but is there ever really a break from it all? Hehehe. I'm hoping the heat outside dries my scrubs... don't really feel like sticking them in the dryer.
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Hey folks. How has everybody's day been so far? Glasgow has decided to cool down after good week of scorching days, which I'm happy about. Hap four cover lessons today and am knackered, but in an amusingly machiavellian act I managed to be out of school for Thursday, so that should evn things out karma wise.
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Glad people found the lighting vids useful. Well done Nan for posting them all !
I have finally finished the spring cleaning. Yay!! See everyone else has been doing 'house stuff' as well. Does that mean we've all been cleaning?
No holiday weekend here, but then we have the most public holidays in europe (I think!) so June 7 is our next one!
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What? Where in Europe, if I may be so bold? Country would suffice. :) Just curious.
Yes, the lighting vids were really good!
And I put a whole swath of links about getting comic style & fonts & stuff for Photoshop over in "Do cyberchickens..."
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
And due to my home office/studio being painted this week, I'm utterly locked out of any serious artification or Poserizing. *whine*
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Nanobot said:
What? Where in Europe, if I may be so bold? Country would suffice. :) Just curious.
Yes, the lighting vids were really good!
And I put a whole swath of links about getting comic style & fonts & stuff for Photoshop over in "Do cyberchickens..."
I live in Gozo which is the second largest of the Islands of Malta. A couple of the holidays were dropped, much to the chagrin of the workers, so we now (only) have 14. I think that makes us joint first with Spain.
http://www.doi.gov.mt/en/archive/publicholidays/pholidays12.asp
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Malta! Now, that's properly exotic! :D
I live just outside of boring old Washington, D.C., U.S.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Mid-day lull is upon us!
This is pretty and sciencey all at once: http://inspirationgreen.com/natural-pools-swimming-ponds.html
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Xaa said:celticfire said:
Ok you guys thanks so much!. Yeah right now still trying to figure out how to get Poser to load my runtime. It's only detecting two sets by Xurge, but I know I've chosen the right runtime, I've checked five times now. grrrr so aggravated.
Unfortunately, you will have to rebuild the runtime in a folder structure that Poser can recognize and access. DAZ set up studio from the beginning so that it can recognize and open Poser runtimes, but the runtimes it creates, even with poser-compatible items, cannot be seen by Poser because the folders are not named the same nor are they in the same directory tree structure. As Suro already said, this is immensely tedious - but, once done, it is definitely worth the hassle.
Poser doesn't care how many runtimes you have, but every runtime you have must follow this structure of folder naming and hierarchy:
Runtime
- Geometries
- Textures
- Libraries
- - Camera
- - Face
- - Hair
- - Hand
- - Light
- - Materials
- - Pose
- - Props
If it's a figure of any kind (including conforming clothing), it goes under the "character" folder. If it's a prop of any kind (I.E. it doesn't have a bone hierarchy), it goes under the "props" folder, and so on. You can have any number of sub-folders beneath these folders in any arrangement you like, but Poser needs this root hierarchy and division of items to find stuff.
Ok so I've spent the day going through my runtime to find out exactly why the only thing Poser is detecting is Xurge's stuff. Well the stuff that Poser detected is literally "treed" like this:
D/S3
Content
Runtime
Runtime
Libraries
Character
What. The. Heck? A runtime within my runtime is what Poser detected?
This has definitely been frustrating. But I think I now understand that the bazillion folders I had in my runtime are now unneeded, so I cleaned up over 30 gigs of space taken up by things that had installed wrong or were just plain screwy to begin with. Now, going to truly focus on rebuilding my runtime from scratch on my spare hard drive, and see if poser will detect that. Here's hoping. And thanks you guys once again for the info!
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Hey, Celtic--looks like your folders have been multiplying without your say-so. Nasty little beasts. At least once you've re-organized you won't have to do it ALL over again.
Oh yes, be sure to backup. ;)
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
This guy, on the other hand, has WAY too much time on his hands.
http://designerscouch.org/view-log/Insanely-Detailed-Sculptures-of-Kris-Kuksi-1354
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
woah, that one was fascinating, nanobot.
update on domain:
we still don't have the primary back:(
we had 2 names for ten years. never
really used one hardly at all. decided
to let it expire.
jumpine has held up letting go of
promary name 3 times, even with
new host's techs manually trying!
they reject their own code!
we were getting desperate.
we bought back the name we let expire in feb.,
the secondary less used one, and it's on new host.
jumpline is just not letting us get back the one
they are holding hostage :(
i was on phone with host gator, the new hosts,
who are the good guys, and they said they have
never ever seen an american registrar be so...
pick your own words... before! not pleased at all.
so... we either have to mirror our whole site
manually, use redirects, then buy back our
own primary domain name when and if
jumpship takes their grimy little talons off it
this summer...
or, or... i have no clue. it's 3 AM, so...
i so need to talk to a techy person!
thanks to any and all praying for me. i have
at least not gotten so sick again.
and i'm proofread up to ch. 757...
it never ends, lol.
~^..^~ ladyfur -
{{hugs}} and good luck, Ladyfur.
If you want to see more instances of where Jim used those types of filters go look here: http://www.smackjeeves.com/comicprofile.php?id=93415
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terre, thanks. but i got lost on that site. it kept treating me as if i was a ten year old child. how many blanking times do you need to keep telling it ok, i'm not a kid, before it listens? result is all i could get to was a gateway of a bunch of
greyed out adult content boxes and some odd japanese cartoony stuff. no clue what i was supposed to see...
oh, and hostgator is CALLING the old registar to see if they can fix the mess.
because we put in a report to ICANN and they will investigate...
soon.
yeah, i know. sigh.
~^..^~ ladyfur -
Ahh, calling in the Feds. Hopefully that will cut the effing Gordian knot. Much touching of wood for luck!
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
nanobot, lol :) oh, well... here is what happened...
we already reported you to ICANN...
oh? well, let me check... that's odd. i don't see any sort of block or
hold on that domain name. Looks to me like it's free to leave. have your
new host call us...
result:
they did it as a, 'push'. no, i'm not googling it. apparently it's like a
cross between a yiddish, give it a vorf already, oy! and pushing some
buttons...
hostgator got it! but they had to get it to a special secret decoder
spot in the middle of the night... then they began to set it up so
it actually goes with our domain, you know, the piddly stuff like the
files, no biggie...
now it just has to, 'resolve'...
at this rate the primary elections of all 50 states will end first!
but... now it's ours... they say. i'm still holding my breath until
i see proof...
but, hopefully their, 'soon', will be less time than the other beloved
version of that 4 letter word ;)
i still want artzone back!
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Oof.... had my first adult cardiac arrest, and the patient didn't make it... I need my bed.
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AngelusPrime said:
Oof.... had my first adult cardiac arrest, and the patient didn't make it... I need my bed.
Oh dear! **hugs** My sincere sympathies as well. Bed sounds good.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Topic zig-zag -
Does anyone know what real-world gun this is modeled on? http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/cgv45-06-for-poser/93497
ETA - I'm not that knowlegeable, but it looks rather like a Browning High-Power.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
AngelusPrime said:
Oof.... had my first adult cardiac arrest, and the patient didn't make it... I need my bed.
{{hugs}} And tea. Or whatever works for you. And more {{hugs}}
Suspiro ergo sum. -
Nanobot said:
Topic zig-zag -
Does anyone know what real-world gun this is modeled on? http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/cgv45-06-for-poser/93497
ETA - I'm not that knowlegeable, but it looks rather like a Browning High-Power.
I wish I knew. No, really, I wish I could tell just by looking. But I really know nothing. :(
Suspiro ergo sum. -
The one on the left looks more like a Springfield V-16 Compact .45 Government Pistol. The one right-bottom looks like a standard goverment 45. Either way, all three are clearly based on the standard government pattern.Nanobot said:Topic zig-zag -
Does anyone know what real-world gun this is modeled on? http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/cgv45-06-for-poser/93497
ETA - I'm not that knowlegeable, but it looks rather like a Browning High-Power.
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Thanks guys, :) The initial "Holy cow! Some one just died!" has worn off. I hope the family is ok, They hadn't gotten there when I left. Truth be told, it may have been my first, but it won't be the last; part of the job. Funny thing, I thought I'd freeze up when it happened the first time, but I'm happy and proud to say I didn't. I remembered everything I had to do. But anyway, sadly enough, these things do happen. I think I would have been more upset if it had been a child.... But that's just me.Bed and tea were had, now to be productive! :DHow's everyone?*edit* Ok, so someone dying is upsetting no matter what, sorry, didn't mean to sound callous by saying a child would have upset me more, heh.
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Not callus, but the kind of emotionally tough (and possibly compartmented) that you have to be in your profession.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
As for reporting in: my office at home is in a carefully assembled pile in the middle of the floor, since the paint job did NOT get finished today. This means I get two lovely days with the overhead lights missing and having to move my desk & computers and all enough to fit my chair into that heap somehow. I will NOT be unplugged for the weekend--having been deprived of my desktop office/studio all week already.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others. -
Nanobot said:
Not callus, but the kind of emotionally tough (and possibly compartmented) that you have to be in your profession.
And I might add that from the patient's viewpoint, when I'm hurting desperately, I WANT a nurse who is kind but efficient and still functional despite what's going on. It's comforting knowing that *someone* still has their head on straight. We need that.
* A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five!
* Isn't it wonderful how cute weapons of mass distraction can be?
* Those are my principles. And if you don't like them, I have others.
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