Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Mac and Poser 6 question

thartwick1 opened this issue on Dec 26, 2005 ยท 5 posts


dbutenhof posted Mon, 26 December 2005 at 8:32 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Form.Contrib=fmorgan&Topsectionid=0

Use fmorgan's PoserMacConverter Lite in Renderosity freeware (http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Form.Contrib=fmorgan&Topsectionid=0)

The old maconverter runs only in Classic (you'd need OS 9 installed, which not everyone has nowadays), and creates old-fashioned file resources. PoserMacConverter changes the archaic PC-specific .rsr files into portable .png files, and runs in Mac OS X native.

fmorgan also sells a MacPoserBrowserPRO package in the marketplace that will help with installation as well. I bought it, but for installation I usually just use "ditto -xk *.zip /Applications/Poser 6" from a Terminal window. (But be careful that the zip is really rooted at "Runtime"; some are at "libraries", while a very few include the enter PC Poser application path from "Program FilesPoser 6...".)

Aside from the crufty rsr files, very few Poser zip packages require any "conversion" at all (and no rationally packaged P5/P6 packages, which have png previews). For P5 and P6, maconverter, as useful as it was for years, is overkill, even aside from requiring Classic. Curious Labs kept the Mac and PC versions of Poser 4 pointlessly and artificially incompatible (and even worse that pesky PC-specific rsr file is actually a Mac-specific file format deliberately broken so the Mac won't read it). For PP and P5, they wised up and stopped doing that.