It seems like I have to edit some text in the Vicky.cr2 file to turn her into Millie. How do I do this on my Mac? I have a text editing program called "SimpleEdit 3.5", but it can't read the cr2 file. I've tried to re-name it, but it didn't help. What to do? Mike. (I tried the searchengine on this forum, but it couldn't find anything)

In regard to your text editing of cr2 files: I also use a Mac & strongly recommend a nifty text-editor called Text-Edit Plus 2.7. It's shareware & costs just $15. .

Thanks for the tip. I downloaded it and tried it but it will not read the cr2 files. What to do? //Mike

I haven't gotten it to work yet but I also don't really have much of a need. Other options BBEdit and Res Edit .. I am not sure which will do the trick

That's odd. Text-Edit Plus 2.7 seems to read cr2 files just fine for me, at least the one I paid $15 for does. Any other text file I've tried in it also seems to work okay. I can't offer an opinion about any test versions however, which might lack features.

Text-Edit Plus 4.0.3 was the version on their download page. Can they have taken out the ability to edit Poser files??? BBEdit cost about $100 and they a litle bit to much for just replacing a line in Vicky. Thanks anyway. //Mike

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Go to the utilities section of Freestuff here. About the 3rd or 4th page is a Poser Library Reader by John Stallings. It's excellent for editing any cr2, and it will open just about any poser file for text editing. It will give you a heirarchy, very simply laid out, with everything, morph values, props, ect. If your editing cr2s, hr2, light files, anything, you should get it. Just look in Utilities. I just checked, and it's still there. Enjoy the day! =)

Unfortunately, Poser Library Reader is PC only, not suitable for a Mac.

bobsmash: Glad you mentioned the version number of Text-Edit that wasn't working for you. I'll stick with 2.7! Funny though that an upgrade should be less versatile, at least as far as Poser stuff is concerned. I've edited the pointer lines of a cr2 using it & I've edited .obj files just a bit, but nothing very much. It has a nice search & replace. Only thing that looked odd (I've never seen others though so it may be normal) was that when the cr2 file opens, there's a lot of paragraph breaks & white space. Not being a cr2 file veteran, I don't know if that's a possible problem. I would think that if you made a change & then closed it back up without tampering with anything else, it should be okay. Incidentally, it would be interesting if anyone knows of a way to quickly search an .obj file for a particular group of vertices so that a quick, precise change could be made using just numbers, right on the file. I would think that for tiny changes affecting only a couple of polygons it would be very cool to do this using some kind of script where you could type some numbers in a field & have the new numbers immediately plug into the .obj file. Perhaps, the polygon(s) to be changed could be "marked" by a tiny sphere or marker(s) whose position would be determined to 4 decimal places, something like that. I don't know, just a thought, maybe not a very good one!

There is a component of Norton Utilities named Fast Find. If you drag any file onto the icon of Fast Find, it opens with the file already selected. One click on the icon with a magnifying glass and you are looking at an ASCII dump of the content of the file. Cmd-A, Cmd-C and you are ready to paste into any text editor that can open an empty document. 4-5 seconds if you have everything lined up. This sort of problem doesn't deserve more of your time. Thank you for using Macintosh.

I'll check into Norton first thing Monday. Thanks. I tried the BBEdit Lite version and that one couldn't see the cr2 file either.//Mike

Okay, all this text editor stuff is all well and good, but that's not how to turn vicky into millie. All you need to do is download the millie from Morph world and decode the pcf with mover back into an obj (save the old obj in a different folder for emergencies) and then put the new obj in the geometries/zygote people/ folder. *Unless I'm mistaken -Darth

DL, as I recall, there were indeed two lines of code fore & aft in the cr2 file that point to the .obj file that need to be changed when doing the Morph world update of Vicky, if that's the one bobsmash is talking about (the one on Jaager's page). But I download so much stuff maybe I'm remembering another character upgrade. One thing I am sure of is that MacConverter has to be used by Mac folks & yes it converts the pcf into obj the same way I guess as Mover. I've got that Jaager file in my library somewhere but since the download haven't played with it.

Yes, it's Jaager's Millie I'm trying to get to work. I have no problem with the pcf to obj, MacConverter does that just fine - it's as michalki mentions the changing of two line in the cr2 that I'm having problem with. //Mike

you only need to edit the cr2 if you still want other cr2's to point to non-millie vicky. In other words, if you rename the original to "originalvicky.obj" or if you rename the decoded new pcf to "Millie.obj" then yeah you have to make sure the cr2 points to whatever you named it. Under my plan, you just keep blmilwom.obj in a backup folder and make sure you name the decoded pcf blmilwom.obj and then all your vicky cr2's will be Millie-tastic without editing a cr2. Did that make sense? -DL

BBEdit will work On MAC OS to edit Poser files. Just change the "File Type" in the "Open" dialog to "Any File".

OK. Thanks, that worked. I had the "All Available" box checked. I thought I had checked the "Any File". Michalki, the new version of Tex-Edit 4.0.3 also works, I had checked the wrong box there also. Sorry for the confusion. Thank you all for the help.//Mike

Also, any text ediror can edit a cr2 file provided that it does not limit you on how much text can be loaded. A cr2 file is nothing more than a text files. So, change the 3 letter extion"cr2" to "txt" or whatever macs use I wonder if the mac equivalant of noepad can handle the file JanP