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Subject: P4 or PP question

Holli opened this issue on Aug 23, 2004 ยท 6 posts
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Holli ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2004 at 3:10 AM ยท edited Tue, 24 December 2024 at 7:08 PM

Hello some products (marketplace or DAZ) have materials for both P4 and Pro Pack. What is the difference. What should I choose for P5 ?

EnglishBob ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2004 at 4:19 AM

Choose the ProPack materials for Poser 5. It's just that DAZ don't want to actually utter the words "Poser 5" (choke, choke). :) The difference will be in the bump mapping that's applied - Poser 4 uses .BUM format, ProPack / P5 use any image format (usually JPEG).

KarenJ ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2004 at 4:29 AM

Usually it's that the P4 version references .bum files for the bump map, whereas PP used .jpgs. Since often the .bums are not packaged, and P4 needs to convert the jpgs into .bums, I usually pick PP for Poser 5, and delete the P4 versions (which saves me clicking on them in error and then sending poser into a hissy fit while it tries to find 14 .bum files that don't exist.)

"you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love." - Warsan Shire

KarenJ ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2004 at 4:29 AM

Hot damn, crossposted again :)

"you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love." - Warsan Shire

elizabyte ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2004 at 4:45 AM

Attached Link: http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ilaripih/MPEHome/

Also note that any bump maps in standard DAZ MAT Poses won't work in P5. You'll have to manually plug the bumps into the bump channel (instead of bump gradient). Or get Mat Pose Edit and convert the file formats to P5. ;-)

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Holli ( ) posted Mon, 23 August 2004 at 4:50 AM

thanks a lot BTW : I already use Mat Pose Edit, great programm

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