squid69 opened this issue on Jan 10, 2005 ยท 9 posts
layingback posted Mon, 10 January 2005 at 10:39 AM
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.