LadyBea32 opened this issue on Aug 16, 2003 ยท 40 posts
lesbentley posted Sun, 17 August 2003 at 5:58 PM
The displayed name is never used by Poser for anything, it is just used to DISPLAY something to the user. Changing the displayed name will not affect how the file operates in any way, changing the internal name will. The name that Poser its self uses INTERNALLY is the one in the first line of the actor, channel, or what ever. Because this name is used internally within the application to make decisions it is called the "INTERNAL name". The displayed name for an 'element' such as an actor or prop can be changed from within the Poser interface via its Properties box, or via a pose file. The internal name can only be changed by editing the file outside of Poser 4, e.g. with a text editor. getStringRes is just a trick that Poser uses to pull display names out of a database so that the names will display in the appropriate language for the user, it has no other function that I know of, and if it were not for the diffrent language versions it would not be needed, a plain text string would suffice.