I've been looking for a decent rose for a long time. Nerd finally posted one, but can anyone tell me where the hell to get stuffit so I can unzip it? Do they even have stuffit for PC? Don't tell me metacreations site because that link is broken

You need Stuffit Expander. Here is the link for the PC version. Have fun. :-) http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_win_login.html

I've never bothered before. When I see a file in stuffit, I generally just skip it completely. But I gotta have that rose

I wish the mac folks would consider this when posting, > since the majority of users are on pcs. Given that the vast majority of props in the Free Stuff are posted without the slightest thought of Mac compatibility, I find this sentiment amusing. Perhaps you can all just deal with the occasional inconvenience of having to accomodate a Macintosh format.

Okay, I downloaded the aladdin expander, and put the ,sit file in it, and it did....absolutely nothing. It did zip, zero, nada. It didn't expand it didn't look, it didn't react in any way whasoever. I dragged and dropped. I located in browse and double clicked. I want that damn rose. I hate people who use stuffit. I want nerd to post the rose in some kind of format that can be accessed using a pc dammit

Look for one at the same place I told you to get CuteFTP , www.winfiles.com

Bone, If you install Stuffit correctly (I just blundered into it), all you have to do is double click the file and it will expand. You might want to park the file in a safe (neutral) directory before you do it - most of those expand an elaborate directory tree. Unlike WinZip I have not seen an opportunity offered to reach in and extract selected files.

Jaager, I installed it with a self extracting exe file. I followed the directions on how to unstuff the file. It didn't do a single thing.

I use a PC but Ive always found it funny that when theres a file for the PC and Mac its always in .zip format.... -Matt (Who isnt going to bitch and moan his way into an arguement this time)

bonestructure, does the Aladdin Expander run at all? It should put a single window on screen which says "Drag and drop archives and encoded files here". Does it do this? I just ran through installing the Expander on a Win98 system, and it worked for me. I went to www.stuffit.com (which takes you to Aladdin Systems), to the "Free Downloads" link. I downloaded a file named "Alex50.exe". Double clicking it installed the decompression program in Program FilesAladdin Systems. Clicking on Expander.exe opens the window where you drop encoded files.

No, I'm not going to continue in an argument either, DA. I'm afraid if I do I'll end up strongly disliking people whom I've always admired.

I'd love to argue this point till we all cry. But I won't. If your having trouble installing stuffit for the PC, it's not a MAC problem. I have installed many versions of stuffit expander on many different PCs (from an old 486 to a 350 mhz pentieum) and have never had a problem. Just try a clean install, or maybe even try downloading it again and then re-installing. I have also known the wonderful people here to rally together and send someone a converted (zip) when all hope was lost. James (Yes a MAC person) It's not the computer, it's what you get out of it that matters. So get over the PC war and back to the commonality that is the Poser Forum.

I never said it was a Mac problem. I don't care what the problem is. I just want the rose and stuffit ain't working

Ok bone, we realize that. So the file you downloaded from Aladdin was named Alex50.exe? And it did absolutely nothing when you ran it? It is supposed to be 1,475,180 bytes in size; did it download completely?

It seemed to download completely. It wasn't that large. There were two files there. one for windows nt, the other for 95/98 . it was only like 300 some k

I think you downloaded the wrong file. The one you want is called Aladdin Expander. A direct download link is: http://a1792.g.akamai.net/7/1792/287/1bfebb7d8f6fae/www.aladdinsys.com/downloads/files/ALEX50.EXE (this link is only temporary, so download it quickly)

Allie, Boy, do you not know the real world or what? YOu said, "I always thought people with unusual needs should bend, rather than expecting the rest of the world to accommodate them... " I wish! In reality, people flaunt their unusual needs and like to twist the Politically correctness of current america to make people bend over backwards twice for them. As a waiter in a restaraunt, I see this constantly. Can you believe people who are allergic to Garlic even step foot in an Arabic Restaraunt????? How about people who are allergic to wheat? Or the slack-jawed yokels who come into our restaraunt, can fully see the linen napkins, the fine crystal and china, the tuxedo shirted staff, and have the audacity to ask for a childrens menu for their legion of snot-nosed rice-throwing bastards...It's like, you know, get carry out for God's sake or better yet, take your hot-dog-needing ear-piecrcing pokemon collecting whiners to McDonalds, where everything is made out of plastic. Arg. But I do believe in Mac and PC support. People buy macs because they are technically better machines with better operating system. It's not too hard to have a few extra free-ware file decompression utilities. -Darth_Logice

Yep, I downloaded the wrong one. It's weird, Thet both look alike. One works and one doesn't. As far as macs and pcs. one's a mac and ones a pc. I don't think either one is better than the other. They're computers. They're equal. The deciding factor is what you do with em. An idiot with a mac is still an idiot if he gets a pc. It's true I wish file sharing was easier. But I imagine if I got to the point with work or something that I absolutely needed to share files with a mac user, I'd get the software to convert files. I haven't seen a mac do anything better than a pc, or a pc do anything better than a mac. What is better is a win nt server, cause they can run softimage and maya and stuff. Even if I can't afford em, I hunger for em lol

Salute, bonestructure! I agree with you absolutly. Allie: How about, if both sides would bend over a little, thus coming closer together? Mac users can compress their posted files in zip-format very easy, Alladin offers a shareware app called "DropZip". (Don't forget to convert your poser-stuff with "MacConverter", and turn off the "BinHex"-option in DropZip!) PC users could remember from time to time, that .exe-files won't work on a Mac (unless you have "VirtualPC" or the like). Maybe they can find a way to port their little but very usefull helper-apps (like "MorphManager"!) for Macs. Actually I've bought VirtualPC just for using Poser tools like MorphManager. :) Other people might find this a bit too expensive.

Just an aside--I sorta' liked Expander after I had to dl it to get one of Diane TG's textures-quicker to use than my Winzip. For awhile, I actually made it my default unzipper, but I did find one that it wouldn't unzip and I now just keep both around.

Hey bone, I'm glad you got it to work! As far as the Mac/PC thing goes. We love our machines whichever they are and a pissing contest over which is better, yada, yada, yada, is a waste of our valuable time. Let's all just do what we do best here (helping each other out) and figure out how to make things work cross platform. I love Macs but I have to work on both platforms and both systems have their strong and weak points. Peace, Wynter

well, the stuffit expander will be valuable to me, because I go to a Bryce forum on delphi now and then, and a few of the files there are also in stuffit format. I've ignored them up to now because they haven't been anything I couldn't live without. The rose, I couldn't live without. I wish I could congratulate nerd if he/she modeled it, because it's great, tho the stem's a bit long. And having struggled trying to model a realistic rose, I know how hard he/she must have worked to do it.

By the way, where is this rose. I went looking for it and didn't find it. Though I didn't look to hard because it was late. Would like to take a peek at this rose if you could point me in the right direction. Thanks.

It's in poser free stuff, oh 4 or 5 or 6 pages in. There's also some neat leather clothes in there I downloaded too, but that rose is the best I've seen

Incidentally, in the general business world, Macs ARE a tiny minority, as they are in the home-user "world", but in the Graphics industry it's closer to 50/50 and in the publishing industry it's gotten CLOSER to 50/50 in the last few years, but Macs still dominate, unless there's been a MAJOR shift I don't know about... I've even seen tech support people for publishing and advertising houses griping that the financial offices of their companies HAVE to use PCs for their spreadsheets, but the creatives insist on keeping their Macs, so they have to know both machines... And the now-defunct PC Accellerator was composed on Macs, but focussed almost entirely on PC games (in fact, their fake ad in one issue was for a magazine called "Mac Gamer" which boasted a review of the ONE game released for Macs that year...), leading to a lot of snide comments traded between the editorial staff (who preferred PCs) and the art director (who did layout and REFUSED to use a PC if he could at all help it).

I really don't understand all the hostility between mac and pc users. It's a damn computer. No matter what operating system you use, or what you call it, it's a computer. I like PCs because that's what I started on and that's what I'm used to. But if I were to win a mac in a sweepstakes or something, you can bet your ass I'd use it without a second thought. Two computers? You betcha. But personally, my dream computer is an Alienwares dual processor server with Softimage and Maya. As far as macs and pcs, if I see a good piece of work, quite frankly I could give a shit what kind of machine it was done on. I might be interested in the software, but good work is always good work, regardless of whether you used a mac or a pc. The only thing I really object to is that a lot of graphics jobs are open ONLY to people who work on macs. THAT isn't fair.