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| Step 3: Adding External Runtimes to Poser and Daz Studio |
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| Both Poser 6 and Poser 7 allow you to link to External Runtimes. The process is the same for both, so I will show you from Poser 6 in the example. |
| First, Open Poser and go to your Library Tab. If it is not already showing, you can go to the upper menu bar, click on Windows, and put a check by Libraries.
Whatever Category you happen to be in, just click on the topmost Folder, (1) and continue to click until you reach the Main Runtime Folders. The topmost folder will be either Poser 6 or Poser 7, and there will be a second folder called Downloads. |
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| Once you are at the top of the hierarchy, go down to the bottom of the Library Tab and you will see a small plus sign called Add Runtime. (2) Click this, and a new window will pop up (3) where you will search out and find the runtime you wish to add to Poser. Once you find it, click okay, and it will appear in the list under the Poser and Downloads folder icons. Do this for each of your Runtimes and you will have all of your new categories to choose from when looking for your files. |
| If you need different runtimes for the next project, just select the Runtimes you don’t need (1) one at a time, of course, and click on the little minus sign (2). The Runtime will disappear from your list of active Runtimes. Don’t worry though, it will still be where you first created it, and any time you want to add it again – just repeat the instructions above. |
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| You do not have to have all of your Runtimes loaded at once. You can choose to install only a few runtimes – whatever you need for a particular project. |
| Since many of the files that are formatted for Poser will also work in Daz Studio, you will want to add these new runtimes to Daz Studio. Easy enough. Open Daz/Studio and go to the menu bar across the top. Click on Edit/Preferences/ and in the new window that pops up, click on the Directories Tab. In the long bar just under Directories, it will by default show Daz/Studio Directories. But keep in mind that your new Runtimes are intended for Poser format, so you must add them as Poser Directories. Click on the small triangle on the right (1) and choose Poser Content Directories (2). You will have to add your runtimes one at a time. |
| First click on Add (3) and in the window that pops up, (4) find the Runtime Folder you wish to add, and click OK. The Runtime will then show up in the main window (5) under Directories. Simply click Apply (6) and Accept (7) and you’re done. Do this for each of the runtimes we are using in this exercise. |
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| Once finished, you will see on your Content Tab a list of all of your runtimes. Note that the Runtime called Studio contains your Daz/Studio formatted content. The folder called Content contains any Poser formatted content that you may have previously installed into Daz Studio. (It will not be there if you have not installed any Poser content.) |
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| One thing to take note of – Daz/Studio will give you a warning if you have more than 10 Runtimes loaded at once. You don’t have to heed the warning unless you want to. Too many runtimes may slow things down, but they will still work. However, just as in the Poser example, you may wish to have showing only those Runtimes you are currently using for a project. In this case, you can simply return to Edit/Preferences and the Directories Tab. Click on the Poser Directories, and click on the Runtimes (one at a time) that you want to remove, and instead of clicking on Add, click on Remove, then again on Apply and Accept. The chosen Runtime will disappear from your Content Tab. Any time you want it back just re-do the instructions on adding runtimes, and it will again show up in your Content Tab. You now know how to create the Main Categories you want, turn them into Runtimes, and add/remove the Runtimes in both Daz/Studio and Poser. But of course, runtimes aren’t really runtimes until they have content in them. |