I posted this below to another thread but maybe it should be in a seperate post.

There is a small problem with P5 and and the Pose/!MAT V3 MalePak/V3 Complete MALE1 pose/mat file that slows the loading of the V3 male texture maps to a 5 min wait and results in the bump maps failing to load at all.
The bump maps are delivered as jpegs by Daz and not as bums. But they are referenced in the pp2 file as .bum. P5 slows to a crawl trying to sort this out and you end up with the tex maps loaded but not the bump.

All references to .bum need to be replaced with .jpg in the pp2. Loading the files then speeds up to a few seconds and the bumps are correctly in place.

For P5 users open up the V3 Complete Male1.pp2 file in a decent text ed. and do a full search and replace of:

V3HeadMale1B.bum
V3BodyMale1B.bum

with

V3HeadMale1B.jpg
V3BodyMale1B.jpg

That should do the trick.

Regards
STORM

UGH! thanks for the info. love p5 sometimes, hate p5 sometimes grrrrr.

It would seem to be a Daz error, not a P5 problem, wouldn't it?

yes it does seem strange for DAZ to have included the BUM reference.. even ProPack cant handel that. On the other hadn if you convert the JPG to greyscale then save as a BMP and rename the extension to BUM it works too

My bag. Sorry bout that.

Thank you Storm - I was a bit flumped by that one!

Thanks for the info :-) But you can make it easier: search for .bum and replace with .jpg that changes the Body- and Headbump thingie file extension at once.

sorry to sound stupid, but I only have notepad and wordpad, Should I try and edit the cc2 files with wordpad and do the global replace? is there another quick easy and faster way than wordpad?

You don't edit the cr2. The ref is in the MAT files not any cr2s. Worpad is fine.

Just replace "bum" with "jpg"

okie dokie.