Sorry, this may be a bit random, but it is late at night. I think if artists are going to invest in 3D models they should be looking at the longer term as these are more like 35mm slides as assets and should not be transient property that goes obsolete with the software. What happens if a family member dies or stops paying the subscription? Do family photos become public property or up for auction like a storage unit that goes unpaid? I don't think I'd have Kodachrome pictures from the 1940s and 1950s that my grandfather took if this was the model that existed way back when. It is part of the so-called digital rot problem that they (technology companies) have managed to make people pay for on subscrption with the cloud. I keep it because it has an exchange for Kodak Photo CD format to jpeg and I have Kodak Photo CDs from when I was taking 35mm and also having the company digitize them. This woud not be possible today and nobody loses any money by me keeping it active. I have a version of a graphics program which I think may be 16 bit and which I managed to keep running in the change from XP to Windows 7 by installing it on the new operating system. That is a good thing so far for Daz, though I haven't yet switched. I'm torn beacause I really want to support Poser, but cannot in good conscience go all out since people can potentially spend thousands of dollars on models and to have the only program that can run them die on purpose? Especially when newer versions can be unstable and have bugs for a long period of time. I am a fairly long time Poser user now and I am resisting moving to the newer versions after my Game Developer reverted back down to Poser2014 and will never again be available to me due to their (imho) stupid kill switch key, which thankfully Posers 2014 does not have. I hope Daz will reconsider sharing of installers, or make them avaialable from the company upon request, if they are the older ones and not otherwise available. I don't think I have any problems, but I re-downloaded them anyway. Thanks Wandw, I'm appreciative for your link as I found mine there. I tried to quote, missed, and can't delete.I need coffee, lol I am using version 1.1.3.49 of the DSON Importer as later versions caused mesh distortions in Genesis 2 figures.ĭoes anybody know where I can get a legacy version of DSON? I've been searching for a while and coming up bare. This invisible ponytail figure is also present in all scenes where the ponytail had previously been used. Thanks for the info, but none of that explains why the rest of the DSON imported models still work perfectly fine while the V5 ponytail leaves an invisible artifact that crashes Poser if I try to delete it or close the scene. This will get worse in Poser 12, because Python 2.7 reached end-of-life last year, so Python will be updated to version 3, which will break most existing Poser Python scripts. Unless the Importer is updated by DAZ, to use DSON assets via the Importer, one must use 11.2 or lower otherwise, they must be exported from Studio as cr2 and pp2 files to use them in Poser 11.3 and higher. Python was updated in 11.3, and the DSON Importer no longer works. No matter how thoroughly I tried to clean it out. I'm also noting that Poser never actually seemed to do a true clean install, because it never asked me for the registration key again, it always just.had it. Any advice is appreciated, since I used that hair exclusively on my main character in the setup scenes for the comic book I published and am having difficulty with them now due to this issue. I've looked everywhere trying to find a solution, but nothing seems to be the same as what I'm experiencing. Trying to close down Poser after loading this figure also triggers a Poser crash. Furthermore, once this phantom ponytail figure loads, deleting it triggers a Poser crash. The V5 Ponytail, however, still does the "phantom figure" thing. Lied to DIM and told it I was using Poser Pro 2014Īfter doing this, the running shoes will load.Downloaded latest versions of the above software.Uninstalled DAZ Install Manager and DSON Importer.
Uninstalled Poser completely, deleted all preference and installation folders, and cleaned the registry using CCleaner.Uninstalled both figures with the Daz Install Manager and swept the runtime folder for remnants.To try to solve this, I did the following: It showed in the menu, but there wasn't anything actually there. I uninstalled both, and bot would now load.but there would be no figure in the scene. Both would load and I'd see the mesh, but the figure would be invisible upon rednering. I only have two DSON characters, a pair of running shoes and the VIctoria 5 Elite Ponytail. After installing the most recent Poser Pro 11 update, my DSON content went haywire. Until recently, I had no issues with DSON importing for Poser 11 running on Windows 10.