Hi all...well I'm trying to create some MOR files for V2. I used Mat Pose Edit 3 and the MOR file itself works perfectly but when I viewed the file in Poser 4 Pro Pack I got the gray man icon...then I went to PS7 and made an icon 91*91 and saved it as a PNG with the same name as my MOR file...when I went backed to Poser instead of the gray man icon I got a blank space with a gray circle in the middle...can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong??

Poser's icons use a special style of PNG, which isn't the same as PSP's idea of PNG. I find the easiest way to make a thumbnail is to set up the scene so that it shows my "whatever" to best advantage, then save a Light setting (LT2). This will quickly give a Poser-style PNG; just rename it and move it to go with your MOR file, and toss the dummy LT2.

Thanks so much that worked perfectly...now all I have to do is figure out how to create a zip file... :) Thanks a million...Jenn

Cool Ockham! That's alot faster than my method of exporting the png file from poser and then resizing it in photoshop, thanks!

I use that method too when I am just making one or two thumbnails, but when I want to add special text to them or make a lot of thumbs from scratch, there is a way to do it in an image editor. I use photoimpact, but I think this will apply to PSP and Photoshop as well. The PNG that Poser uses requires a transparent background and a single layer. All you have to do is set your background to transparent and create a new layer to hold whatever visual information you want. When you save the PNG be sure that "preserve transparent background" option (or whatever it is called in your program) is enabled - similar to the way you save a GIF with transparent background.

Attached Link: http://www.leolaughlin.com/poser/RosityStandards.html

Thanks Ockham! There is also a free utility named ".RSR Converter," it allows you to create the file Poser used before .PNG, that P5 recognizes NP, from 91 x 91 pixel Photoshop7 composites.

There's an erasier way with MPE... It copies the icon, if you have that setting on, to the new pose file. I save a special version of the character, with the mat or mor appiled, so it's thumbnail looks good. The use MPE, and it'll copy that thumb for you! Then you can load that thumb into the paint app of your choice, and embelish it, if you like. Scourge specifically added that by my request, and you might need a newer version, if you don't have the latest build.

With Pro Pack and Poser 5 you can also simply render a 91x91 picture and save that as a png. That's the way I do it when I only want one or 2 png's.

You can also just save an regular, normal Pose (in Poser, natch) showing what you want in the thumbnail and then rename the file to match your MOR. That is too easy for some people, though. ;-)