I just got the texture pack for V3 and it says i need to convert the .jpg Bump maps to .bum files for the mat poses to work....How do I do this? Im using Poser4..thanks for any help.. ~Nancy~

In Mac OS Poser 4, you select the jpg in the bump section of the Materials window, and Poser 4 converts it to a bum file for you.

Best way is start poser and load a box from your propfile. Tnen go to Render>Materials>Load Bumpmap, and find/select the .jpg you want to convert, click open. A window will open, "Image files must be converted to BUMP", click YES. Do this before useing the figure/object and poser won't keep asking for the missing files, even stalling. A little trick I use, I don't use the bumpmaps till my final render. Bum takes a lot of space, very big when converted. You will be able to work on your scene without fear of crash. Save often so you don't lose all your hard work.

As beryld said before, my default window has nothing in it so I just use the ground plane bumpmap section to convert my bum.jpgs to bum.bum. Saves deleting the prop before loading the desired object.

.bum(Poser) = .bmp(Other graphic programs)

BUM = bump map file BMP = Windows bitmap file Not the same thing at all!!

Ok, second best. My default window is blank too. The ground plane wins. I mostly open my Poser with Pz3's, that way I have all my lights and settings I'm working on. So I just use whatever I have in it to convert. Some of this stuff is habit now, sometimes I forget what it was like to do it for the first time.

Not really. It's BMP format, but red/green rather than greyscale. I've found that using a greyscale bitmap gives VERY different, and usually inferior, results.

.bum got dumped in Poser5. Whenever I come across it, I rename it to .bmp and use that in the Material room. It shows indeed a red/green picture.

Reformulating my previous post: .bum is a file in .bmp format.