How to install and find your HiveWire 3D content in Poser

[Alisa]

Welcome!

 

[Miss B]

Any time we can help, we will. Just ask a question here, and someone will be around to answer. We have a lot of very helpful knowledgeable folks on this forum.

 

[Alisa]

 

[cosmasad]

Good morning friends,

I seem to be having installation problems. I purchased Dusk just now and extracted it to the following folder:


C/Users/Public/Public Documents/ Poser 11 Content


When I open Poser, I see my HiveWire 3d folder in the Poser 11 Content folder, and I see the Dusk folder. When I install the Dusk figure, he pops up but then a window opens asking me to “Please locate “DuskSEeyesDarkM.jpg”. This is the first sign that something’s wrong. The other thing is that the figure is jet black – which is a little unusual. Then, the other strange thing is that when I go in to the Pose icon... Hivewire3d folder/ Dusk/ INJ Morphs and try to double click on them, nothing happens.


Any advice would be really appreciate, friends.


Thank you.

 

[Alisa]

Hi, comasad-

Sorry you're having trouble.

When I install the Dusk figure, he pops up but then a window opens asking me to “Please locate “DuskSEeyesDarkM.jpg”. This is the first sign that something’s wrong.

Did you install all of the 9 zip files that end in "-textures-ds-psr-1of"?

The other thing is that the figure is jet black – which is a little unusual.

Are you rending in Firefly or Superfly? These are not Superfly compatible materials and that would cause the figure to be black. You'd need to use another skin that is or use EZSkin 3 for SF

Then, the other strange thing is that when I go in to the Pose icon... Hivewire3d folder/ Dusk/ INJ Morphs and try to double click on them, nothing happens.

Nothing will LOOK different. But, as noted in the ReadMe, all of Dusk's morphs can be found in the parameter tab under "Actor". When you click on the Base morph INJ, it will add the base morphs to the figure and you can dial them as desired.

Hope that helps!

 

[Hornet3d]

Good morning friends,

I seem to be having installation problems. I purchased Dusk just now and extracted it to the following folder:


C/Users/Public/Public Documents/ Poser 11 Content


When I open Poser, I see my HiveWire 3d folder in the Poser 11 Content folder, and I see the Dusk folder. When I install the Dusk figure, he pops up but then a window opens asking me to “Please locate “DuskSEeyesDarkM.jpg”. This is the first sign that something’s wrong. The other thing is that the figure is jet black – which is a little unusual. Then, the other strange thing is that when I go in to the Pose icon... Hivewire3d folder/ Dusk/ INJ Morphs and try to double click on them, nothing happens.


Any advice would be really appreciate, friends.


Thank you.

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There are a few things that can cause a figure to be jet black, assuming we are talking about the preview, having no lights in the scene would be one of them, the second would be if Poser could not find the image maps that relate to the figure. As Poser is already asking you to locate image maps I suspect it is the later cause. When you installed Dusk all of the image maps should have been installed in the same directory which would make it easy for Poser to find, if you use explorer (assuming windows) to look in the runtime folder for Dusk you should see a folder called textures. In there you will see another folder called Hivewire3D and finally another folder called Base, inside that folder should be all the image maps (assuming that has not changed since I downloaded Dusk. If the *.jpg images are not there something has gone wrong with the installation.

 

[Hornet3d]

There are a few things that can cause a figure to be jet black, assuming we are talking about the preview, having no lights in the scene would be one of them, the second would be if Poser could not find the image maps that relate to the figure. As Poser is already asking you to locate image maps I suspect it is the later cause. When you installed Dusk all of the image maps should have been installed in the same directory which would make it easy for Poser to find, if you use explorer (assuming windows) to look in the runtime folder for Dusk you should see a folder called textures. In there you will see another folder called Hivewire3D and finally another folder called Base, inside that folder should be all the image maps (assuming that has not changed since I downloaded Dusk. If the *.jpg images are not there something has gone wrong with the installation.

Just to clarify what I was saying and taking Alisa's point. If you have a black figure in preview then some of the causes are as I have listed. If you are rendering and you finish up with a very black figure with some reflections, like a dark statue, as Alisa suggests you are probably rendering in Superfly. If so either render in Firefly or as suggested use EZskin3.

 

[Alisa]

Ah, good point, it might be black in preview with no materials (and since there is one missing, it might be that all are ).

 

[Bonnie2001]

Good morning friends,

I seem to be having installation problems. I purchased Dusk just now and extracted it to the following folder:

C/Users/Public/Public Documents/ Poser 11 Content

If you have an external hard drive, it would be a better place to store the Poser Content/Runtimes. That way if your computer ever crashes (like they all do eventually) you won't lose your Poser content and will save yourself a lot of work. My PC died late last year and I was so glad I had all my runtime folders on an external drive.

 

[Bonnie2001]

Just to add, even with the runtimes on an external drive, I still had tons of work reinstalling all my software and setting them up the way I like. Not fun to be sure I can tell you.

 

[Hornet3d]

If you have an external hard drive, it would be a better place to store the Poser Content/Runtimes. That way if your computer ever crashes (like they all do eventually) you won't lose your Poser content and will save yourself a lot of work. My PC died late last year and I was so glad I had all my runtime folders on an external drive.

Good point. With Windows there is always the possibility it will need reloading and then there is always the chance of a drive failure. If you do need a Windows reload for any reason you want to loose as little as possible.

 

[Steve.M]

Hello,

I have just installed DuskSE and DawnSE to the Poser 11(pro) runtime.

DuskSE: Loads with all textures, renders with textures in both Firefly and Superfly.

DawnSE/Special Edition Character: Loads with all textures, renders with textures in Firefly, renders black in Superfly. Also, the subdivision levels(Dawn properties)is disable(greyed out), so there is no sub-d added, and the mesh renders faceted. I have now made 3 installations of DawnSE with the same problem each time.

I purchase both some time ago, but have only just got around to installing them.

What could be the issue with DawnSE?

 

[phdubrov]

1. renders black: DawnSE has no official SuperFly materials. You can use EzSkin3. Snarly's Space: EZSkin
2. sub-d: menu Figure-Skinning Method - change to Poser Unimesh.

 

[Steve.M]

Many thanks phdubrov, issues resolved.