I figured out how to load avi backgounds and animation setups from THE LIBRARY Initially I was trying to get Poser figures to use .avi files as textures, but I discovered something after remembering that some scene information can be saved into the library. This snip of text(minus the version number) was clipped out of a .pz3 file(scene) and pasted as the only contents of a .pp2 file(prop file). I had to create the PZ3 scene first, but the backgroung avi and animation set up loaded right into the scene from the Props library. The steps: 1) Load an avi into poser. Customize the animation settings. 2) Save scene (pz3) 3) Open in text editor and clip out paert below 4) paste as sole contents of a pp2(prop) file in library. 5)Load into scene ---------------------contents of pp2 file----------------------- { version { number 3.01 } movieInfo { numFrames 12 loopStart 0 loopEnd 11 currentFrame 0 framesPerSec 6 outputWidth 100 outputHeight 100 outputFramesPerSec 12 outputStartFrame 0 outputEndFrame 11 useCustomFramesPerSec 0 renderStyle 0 outputType 1 res 1 movieName AviTest.pz3 movieFile testavi.avi -4 2215170 bgMovieOn 1 } ) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I think the version has to stay 3.01 I don't know how Poser knows where to look for the avi but it does. Now you can have a library of setups and animated backgrounds. You can load it into the scene at anytime without altering the figures at all. Now if we can do this with jpg background pictures. Anton

This is very cool. Thanks.

This is indeed cool! Anton told me of it, and it is now in CR2Edit, tho not in current release. Note that if you are doing this by hand, you need to add that last } manually to your new file, it will not be in the PZ3 -- if it was, Poser would stop reading the file right there! Dan http://www.neca.com/~dwilmes/cr2edit.html

Does this work on mac Poser 4

Does this work on mac Poser 4