This is the easiest way to get a depth-pass render, now available to all since we all have Poser Pro now.ĭrag-and-drop from the PzDB third-party library works fine, and works the same as it did before. Now you no longer have to get to its functions by using D3D’s Render Firefly panel script. Hurrah! It had gone missing a few incremental 11.1.x update versions ago. I see that we even have the Auxiliary Render Data drop-down restored to the Firefly render panel. * Snow Machine 2.3 (Firefly and Preview only) (not vital, but fun). * SceneToy 2014 (I see there’s now a new version of this, interestingly, but the old one works fine). I had read in the Renderosity forums that ‘D3D’s XL – Extended Library’ no longer worked, but everything I needed still worked. Load a scene and check your vital Python scripts. On checking Help | About Poser you’ll see the new version number in the corner.ġ4. While you’re there you may want to un-check “Send usage data to…”. Load ‘er up and… you may not actually need to paste in your serial number. Perhaps if I had accepted ‘Backup preferences’ it would have been different?ġ3. exe is exactly the same as the old Poser. In the Start menu and on the desktop I now had shortcuts pointing to…Ĭ:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser 11\Poser.exe I suspect that was the case, actually, as they were both placed in the same folder.ġ2. This may not be needed, as the main installer may have done this on my behalf already. I decided not to launch Poser 11 on completion, as I wanted to run PoserSupport.exe as well. I suspect this is probably a fairly vital step, so ponder it carefully.ġ1. I had to explicitly tell it to use the old preferences… Once running, the Poser 11.2 installer wanted to backup, rather than use, my existing preferences. At 1.2Gb in size, expect Windows to ponder and prod the installer for 40 seconds before launching.ġ0. Ok, start your downloaded ‘Install Poser 11.exe’ file. Close down anything else that might get in the way of an install or hog memory etc.ĩ. Ok, now close down Poser 11 if for some reason it’s running. You probably don’t want to save the entire default Textures folder, as it’s probably weighing in at 5Gb or more!Ĩ. For instance, I see I put the ‘Vince Banga’ SuperFly shader pack there when I first installed Poser, and wouldn’t want to lose those. Selectively backup C:\Users\Public\Documents\Poser 11 Content\Runtime\Textures by sorting by date, then seeing what new folders you may have added there. Backup C:\Users\Public\Documents\Poser 11 Content\Runtime\Libraries which is the Poser 11 native runtime where you’ve probably saved custom expressions and custom lights to. ini file to have a script launch with Poser? If so, you’ll also want to be sure you have that too (poserStartup.py, should be in \poserScripts).Ħ. ZIP while within C:\Program Files then copy-paste the files out somewhere else. Backup your installed Python scripts in the same way, from C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser 11\Runtime\Python\poserScripts\ If Windows won’t let you make a. You now have a ZIP backup of all your settings and preferences, preferred launch state, custom Sketch presets, custom render presets etc. It’s possible you also saved SuperFly custom or tweaked render presets to C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser 11\Runtime\prefs\RenderPresets\SuperFly so check the dates there and. On Windows, first navigate to C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Poser Pro\11 and make a. If you’ve used Poser a lot, you’ll want to backup your preferences and customisation. Renderosity is using Amazon servers so they’re rock-solid.Ĥ. At around 1.3Gb for the main files, I downloaded overnight and the servers were stable. zips if required (those are behind a serial-number access box and can be added later if needed). Download the required files for Poser 11.2 and also access the free content. zips and their extracted runtimes, before you then start deleting the installers.ģ. You’ll need space for the installer downloads, the install and its expanded runtime, and the bonus. Plan on having 30Gb spare, if you also download and un-zip all the bonus content. Clear space on your hard-drive as required. (Update: At this point you may want to start the Smith Micro Download Manager one last time and get the PoserFusion plugins).Ģ. It’s possible they won’t be needed for the install, but you’ll need at least one of them to get the free content bundle at the download page. Locate your file or email containing your Poser serial numbers. Poser 11.2 is available and here are my unofficial notes on the install procedure.Īs I understand it, Poser in now 64-bit only, from version 11.2 onward.ġ.
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