There's been a lot of talk recently here and at PoserPros about editing the UI.xml to remove the Content Parasite, which got me thinking. I will never use the face room. Theoretically, could I similarly remove the face room?

Message edited on: 01/10/2005 01:38

We talked about it before but I think someone tried it and it totally messed up Poser.

Yes, you could. The main rooms that bother me are Cloth and Hair. Though I rarely use them, I haven't tried editing the UI file to hide them, since CL was so "wise" as to make the various rooms inaccessible via hotkeys (except for Materials, which can be gotten into with CTRL+U) or the menu. I wonder if the UI designers will put Poser 5 on their resumes?

Yes, but it makes Poser wacky and unstable. Remove Content Parasite, but don't remove the others.

How do you remove content paradise?

Easiest source to find is in PoserPros under Poser 5 Tips & Tricks, as Jaager keeps it in the "Stickies" near the top. Reason removing CP works is that it uses IE, (Internet Explorer), so removing it removes links to an external routine(s) saving critical intertask performance hits (a problem since CL chose to make Parameter Dials a separate window in P5 - an OK thing to do on Mac, problematic on Windows). Removing calls to Face Room, Cloth, Hair, etc., are more complex because they are within the task, and less likely to save you much, 'cos the code is still going to be loaded into memory, and if you don't use it anyway, what is there to gain? And lots of risk of destabilizing the app. (Note your savings in removing CP can vary: early versions of P5 appear to have slightly different XML - which is not addressed by applying SRs. Also how you have your Internet connection set up, software firewall usage, etc., all give slightly different results. An early P5 updated with SRs - vs re-installed - with broadband connection and a software firewall such as ZoneAlarm set to prohibit Poser from accessing the 'Net, seems to give the biggest benefit from excluding CP.) If you are interested in Poser 5's "UI designers" work, take a look inside those .psd files! They not only used Adobe file formats directly(!), they didn't even clean the number of files, many duplicates exist(!), nor did they clean even the ones they actually used, you'll find all sorts of layers hidden with earlier/different versions of the UI, some with strange names(!). In fact it looks as if they took all the files off of the UI Designer's Mac one day mid-project without him/her knowing and shipped it before (s)he was finished. Oh wait - that is what they did ;-) For some of what you can do with these .psd files see my tweaks under the same PoserPros Poser 5 Tips & Tricks stickies.

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That's hilarious. All the graphics right there in those folders. Is the script actually selecting all those layers, or is most of that unused dreck? Talk about bloat....

That's too bad because I really like Poser 5 but I'm trying to make it more streamlined to devote more resources to rendering obscenely large and complicated images. I'll probably try it tonight, and scream when I screw up my installation. Thanks =)