People have written and posted all these utillities on Free Stuff, but what do they do? My connect is soooooo slooooow I don't want to download them unless I know I can use them. Can one of you just go down the list and say what each of the utillities does? Thanx!

um... well, uvmapper makes uvmaps. and macconverter converts pc files to mac. those are pretty easy. :) depent: this removes any polygons that have more than five sides from your model. VERY important. detriang: this tries to change triangulated polygons back into squares, which many morphers prefer. it has some limitations, though. objaction mover: this is to encode/decode pcf files, which allow us to share files made with copyrighted obj models as the base. objaction scalar: this allowes the teensy poser models to be scaled up/down between poser and modelling programs. cr2editor: edits cr2 files, as well as prop, hair, hand... basically any poser library file. morph manager: allows you to delete morphs and copy morphs from one figure to another. the latest version does other cool stuff like making a morph-only pose file, or a pose-without-morphs pose file, etc. compose: a java utility for handling obj and cob files... used mainly with amorphium to make morphs. phi-builder: makes phi-file building semi-automatic. this is for people creating new poser figures. (the old-fashioned way.) i dont know if bushi's things are in the free stuff, but morph-squisher (morph-squeeze?) allows stripped obj files to be distributed as morph targets without copyright violation, and in a smaller file size. phi-factory helps build phi files from scratch, and/or reverse engineer them from cr2's, i believe. those're the only ones i use/know about.

Great, thank you bloodsong, just what I needed. It actually took me a while to figure out that a UVmap was a texture template, I'm new to all this 3D stuff. I'll have to check Bushi's site for the morph squoosher, I've been stripping my morph targets in Wordpad, ugh. But what is a phi? Other utilitiess I'm wondering about are Speedbump, Poser Loader and Poser Extractor. Thanks.

heyas; a phi is a hierarchy file for creating poser figures. actually, if you don't know what something is, you probably don't need it. :) if you go 'how do i ____?' and somebody tells you, 'you need utility _____,' THEN you need it. sorry, dunno what speedbump et al are.

The three you mention - Speedbump converts texture maps to Bumpmaps Poser Loader and Poser Extractor ...umm... well load files to the correct Poser library, or extract all relevant files for a model from the Poser directories. The critical utilities (IMHO) are UVMapper, Objaction Mover, CR2Editor, MorphManager, MorphSqueeze, and Depent. Objaction 2face is also pretty useful. Another "mission critical" utility is yarp's Poser Explorer which makes sorting through your Poser directories a whole heap easier. If you're on a MAC, another utility you must have is macconverter which allows you to convert PC based Poser files to MAC Poser files (and vise versa). I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the writers of all of the wonderful utilities in free stuff, dedicating their time and resources to making life that much easier for the rest of us. Thanks guys Paul