hi....i have a problem opening characters i d/l...im just wondering if anyone might know wot im doing wrong.....im an extreme newbie at this ,only having posers a few weeks i havent got my head around the diffrent file types yet...the problem is that when i install the d/l'ed characters into the poser dir then try to open them i get a half opened file (see piccie above) or sometimes i cant even see the character at all,but if i move the pointer over it, the frame shows up...i thought i was putting the ojb,cr2,rsr ect files in the wrong places...but this "half opening" also happend with a d/l character that just needed to be unzipped in the poser dir and it puts everything in the right place automatically?....this prob is stressing me out...i have a file full of characters i cant use lol....very frustrating!...could this be anything to do with alot of the files being pz3 while im using poser4...as i said ,i dont wot the files r yet...but i thought the pz3 file may mean poser3 file?...anyways...i think i'll end this essay here..its long enough lol...any help would b greatly appriciated q:o)

btw i think the above pic is s'pose to b a full character n not just hair...(its "hiro",not sure which site i got it from,but u guyz have probably seen it b4 right?)....but if its not and this is the whole image as it should be...i also get a similar thing with a 7of9 character and various others which im sure should b full characters but only "half open" ...again thx in advance for any info on this prob q:o)

heyas; yeah, this is a pretty common problem.... now if i could just remember how to fix it... ;) where's jeff h? try tracking down which obj file the character is using, (one of the p4 nude female ones, i expect), go into that directory where the obj is, and delete the rsr file that has the same name. then try opening the figure again. btw, you can find the location of the obj by opening the cr2 (any text editor will do). a few lines down is a long pointer to the geometry file.

The extension file type tells where the files must go. Check the contents of each of the files in the Runtime/libraries directory to see which file type goes where. Most files in each directory in the library and in geometries have an .RSR file with the exact same name. PZ3 files are poser files that are created with the main menu and contain props, figures, and links to textures, etc. You open them on the File/Open menu. .OBJ files come in two flavors: A. Props which must be imported from file/import/wavefront.obj and, B. The basis for characters in the library/characters directory. The latter must be put in the exact directory indicated in the instructions (readme) that come with the file. As for the rest: PZ2 = poses HR2 = hair CR2 = characters PP2 = props FC2 = faces Texture files come usually as .BMP, .JPG, or GIF files. They can be put in any directory, normally in the runtime/textures directory. Some downloads have a library file, geometry file, and textures in the same directory. In this case, I move the unzipped directory into the textures directory, then move the other files to their respective libraries or geometry file(s). Poser seems to remember where the textures are that way. Some downloads come in PZ3 files. If they have other files in the same zip, they should be put exactly where the readme files say. About a third of the time, the author of the PZ3 file forgot to include some text file, and poser will ask for it. I just make a blank text file of the same name and go ask the author for a replacement. This lesson took me a year to learn

It could be the obj is encoded using Mover. If so, you have to decode the .pcf file first. The read me should explain this.

thx for the info guyz :o) i'll try ur suggestions out...hopefully this will fix the prob...thx again..much appriciated q:o)