I recently switched to Poser 6 from Poser 4 and when I use ThumbNailer, the generated thumbnail in Poser 6 is inverted. That is to say the part that shows in the thumbnail is what should be the alpha channel and what should be a picture of the prop, character,etc. is empty. Any ideas on this? I'm running Mac OS 10.3.9.

jim hasn't logged in lately, but e-mail might reach him. thumbnailer 1.1 was used in OS 9 to convert png files to poser 4 thumbs. I believe jim wrote thumbnailer x at some point, but can't find it. there are some newer utilities that have superceded it, e.g. kaveman's xshruggy and fmorgan's converter utility, but if the original windows file comes with a png file, there's no need to use thumbnailer AFAIK. if the original file comes with an rsr file only, that excludes thumbnailer. perhaps the reason the alpha channel flipped: you converted a png that already had the correct channel colour, and in the old days, windows pngs used white where mac pngs used black.

I open the png, invert the alpha channel and save as a tif. Ran it through ThumbNailer and works fine now. A little time consuming but I hate having those pesky pngs sitting around. Is there a way to keep Poser 6 from generating pngs for each file?