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Newer versions of Poser support multiple runtimes.  I’m thinking you have not added runtimes to your library..  Hit the “+” button and browse to the folder containing the runtime file you wish to add.  At least I think that’s what you’re experiencing trouble with.  A screen shot would help.

I’m having this problem, as well.  I figured out how to install SOME of my content, but not all of it.  V4 installed to the public/documents/Poser9 Content folder, and she shows up in my library.  Woohoo!  But M4 will not.  I get an error message that says “When used with Poser TM, “Michael 4 Base” must be installed to the same directory as the application executable, due to restrictions on support file locations.  Please select the directory that contains your Poser executable.”  Okay, fine.  No problem.  I tried installing it to the Poser 9 directory, just as I used to do with Poser 8.  No deal.  Either way, he doesn’t show up in my library.  I’m starting to feel pretty stupid…

Choose DAZ Studio as the target application to avoid the check for Poser.exe - which is left over from the days when the figure wouldn’t work in external content libraries, which it will in Poser 9.

It worked!  I installed M4, using DazStudio as the target application, and then choosing the Users-Public-Documents-Poser9 for the installation path.  He’s finally in my library!  *cheers*  So, that leaves me with one other question.  How do I figure out which content items need to be installed using this method, and which ones need to be installed differently?  Or is it going to be all trial and error?  Poor M4 must be exhausted and having some kind of personality complex by now.  I think I installed him 4 or 5 different ways to get this far.  lol

Richard Haseltine - 05 December 2012 04:47 PM

Choose DAZ Studio as the target application to avoid the check for Poser.exe - which is left over from the days when the figure wouldn’t work in external content libraries, which it will in Poser 9.

Choosing DS as the target should not cause a problem, but very few items will have that check - pretty much just the base figures that used ExP or perhaps Injection systems for morphs. Most content either has no dependencies or is dependent on other content (such as morphs for V4 and M4).

If you do not use Daz Studio then , when you run the installer , point the path to your Poser 9 Content Folder.
It should be in y our Documents Folder.

I only install the base Figures in to Poser like V4 with all her morphs, Michale 4 with all his Morphs , Miki4 ....

For each Figure I have created their own Runtime .

  With all the talk about Runtimes, I’ll try posting this here.  I just bought 2012.  I had Poser 8 before, but didn’t do much with it as I started out with Studio and understood that a lot better.  My question is :  How do I go about using the content I have with Studio and the content that came with 2012 at the same time.  I need to set up the Runtime on a seperate drive because I’m installing an ssd for the Operating system drive and I cant have a lot of Data on it.  Idealy, I would like to just have ONE Runtime on , say the E: drive , but I can compromise on that. I’ld like to use the same content in BOTH programs as each has its own strengths.  I tried mapping the poser 8 runtime into Studio in the past, but with limited results.
    Thanks for any information,
      Gus

In DS, selecting the folder that holds the Runtime folder for the Poser content as a Poser directory should give access to the Poser content; in Poser selecting the folder that holds the Runtime folder for the DS content as an external library should give access to the Poser-format content. Note that weight-mapped figures from Poser won’t work in DS, and nor will figures using the capsule falloffs introduced in Poser 8.