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Subject: importing into poser 6
Almost all freestuff and bought items are .ZIP archives. If you open them with Winzip, you'll see that the archives contain folder structures, starting with Runtime... Extract the archive to your main Poser 6 folder (usually something like C:Program FilesPoser 6) and everything will go where it's supposed to go. You don't "import" Poser content into Poser, you install it in the Poser libraries (that's what you do by unzipping the files).
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Hmmm - I am new too and have followed the advice above. . . then could not find things. It took me a while to understand the various types of files and where they go in the library. To me, the easiest way to learn this was to manually put the files where I they needed to go. That was how I learned - worked for me - and may not for you. Just wanted to share that. Now I unzipped them and understand what is happening. What I did when I was brand new was unzip them to my desktop, then I read the readme file and then cut and pasted the documents where they were to go. I suggest you try one or two like this - manually - to see where they all go . . . it was a good way for me of learning the structure of the runtime folder.
An addendum to svdl's post..
If the files are .zip files (most of them are), then when you use WinZip to extract them you'll get an option to "Use folder names".
If the path/paths in the .zip are relative (ie, start from "runtime") then when you extract, navigate to your Poser X runtime, check "Use folder names", and everything should end up properly placed.
However, if the path names don't start at "runtime", then you'll have to either:
Extract to a temporary folder (usually create one on desk-top), extract all the files to there then manually move them to the correct place, or..
Extract each group of files (from within WinZip) separately to the folder where they're supposed to go (in which case you need to UNCHECK "Use folder names"...
Cheers,
Diolma
(Hope that helps - I'm not sure if I understand it myself.. but I think that's the way it works..)
Edited to remove redundancy..
Message edited on: 10/25/2005 16:44
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I'm totally new to 3D art and have purchased poser 6. I see a number of items in the 'free stuff' and 'stores' and have downloaded some to a file in 'my documents'. However, I can't sort out how to import the props of figures into the poser 6 windows so that I can use them. Can anyone help please. I'm not a computer whiz kid so please keep the advice simple! Many thanks