hey there all.... i know it's been a while since i've posted here, bt thanks to my new job, i'm back in the 3D world full force and attempting to use Poser 3 (haven't convinced them to upgrade yet) for some serious production. So, here is the question i desperately need answered: I'm trying to port all my pc based libraies (cr2's and such) over to a Mac (argh) and haven't been able to do it yet. What is the best way (if it is even possible) to do this? Thanks to anyone who can help out with this one. Les Garner, aka Sixus 1

I have a Mac, and Martin C.'s Poser Maconverter in the Utilities Section of the Fun Stuff Pages seems able to do any conversion without a hitch. You just drag and drop and it does all the work. I have converted numerous PC-only figures to Mac this way. One thing to watch for is if the texture maps are in the .bmp format. My Mac version of Poser 4 doesn't like them. You may want to convert them to .jpg before your transfer, if Poser 3 will accept that format. (I skipped from Poser 2 to Poser 4, so I don't really know.) You may have to do some fiddling, but it can be done. Good Luck- Michael B.

I just want to add that you may also be able to find a freeware picture converter on one of the Mac Shareware / Freeware sites on the Net. (I have Photoshop 5 and I use that to convert all the textures I need. I usually just convert the entire file with Poser Maconverter, then try to open it from within Poser 4. Sometimes it will present me with a dialog box asking for the texture map in a different format than what the PC texture has been converted to. I just cancel that, quit Poser, ferret out the required texture and use Photoshop to convert it to whatever is required. Then just open Poser and try again, most times you'll have no hassle. If you don't have Photoshop, there are some other graphics applications you can get for next to nothing that may do the trick.) I don't have the Pro version of QuickTime 4, so I can't give you an opinion on that. Michael B.

There's no such thing as upgrading from a Mac to a PC!!!!!!