Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Repairing broken thumbnails

jarm opened this issue on Jul 06, 2004 ยท 8 posts


diolma posted Tue, 06 July 2004 at 4:09 PM

Hi Jody. I assume you are using P5 (since AFAIK, P4 & previous don't allow you to move runtimes). When you say "are not displaying", do you mean you get the "shrugging man", or just a blank pic (possbly with a circle), or just text? Thumbnails in P5 are .png files. There aren't any references to them; Poser just associates the .png with whichever .pz2 (or cr2 or pp2 or whatever) has the same name. A few checks to make: 1. Use Explorer (or whatever) to ensure that the .png files have been moved together with the pose files. 2. If you have it, try looking at the library using P3DO. The .png files should show up if OK, won't if not. 3. In Poser, apply a relevant pose to a character (or whatever), set up a nice camera angle and add the posed character back into the library (probably under a different name). If the new pose shows up OK, then you have a problem with the .png files. If you are getting just a blank thumb (with or without the circle), the chances are that the .png's alpha channel has been corrupted in the move. If you still have the original library (you DID make a backup before moving, didn't you?..), then try moving (just) the .png files again. Cheers, Diolma