PheonixRising opened this issue on Dec 24, 2003 ยท 23 posts
sandoppe posted Thu, 25 December 2003 at 7:44 PM
Well, I am experiencing the identical types of errors the rest of you are.....importing, bracket, problems finding files, etc. I loaded D/S on an older computer that does not have Poser, so I had to simulate a Poser 5 runtime and throw a few things in it to experiment. It's either reading the scene files and not finding the stuff where the code indicates it's suppose to be, or it's been programmed to look for Poser 4 and it's file structure. BabaLouie's post would suggest that. If that's the case, that needs to go! The only .pz3 I could load without an issue was an IW4 dino....the Stegosaurus. Yay Pamola! Another .pz3 designed for Poser 4, loaded, but some of the textures were messed up. Had no luck with .cr2's at all. That's where I got the missing bracket error and ultimately an illegal action crash. One nice thing is that D/S doesn't freak out when it can't find an .obj file and lock up on you. It lets you browse for it and if you can't find something, simply forgets about it. I too hate those god awful buttons. The font is too dark and does not contrast well with the redish purple button color. I suppose another good thing is that it loads and renders the egyptian picture on a PIII runing Windows 98 with 256 mb of ram and a Raedon card with 64 mb of ram. Pretty old hardware. It takes a long time to "process and optimize" the images though and about 10 minutes to render the thing. Given this is an alpha, I do not plan to install on my poser machine :) I would say that the program has real potential. Some of these issues (like the buttons) are cosmetic. Others are pretty serious (like the missing bracket thing and the errant application of textures). But I'm impressed that it even runs on that old computer....Poser won't! :) Finally, the log file does a good job of recording everything done during a session.....a good way to report any problems....just send them the log file!