Hello,
A friend gave me a link to some free hairstyles for victoria 4, but when I dled them, they ask me to put them in different folders in poser, and end up in all the incorrect places. I really like the sets where you just install them and they go in the right places, but some files you have to manually place them in folders and I get them all incorrect. I know there isnt much anyone can probably do about this, but those experienced with  manually pulling files into different folders in poser, can you give me some advice how to correctly admininster these pics into their rightful folders?

Thanks,

Fonzie 

not enough detail ...
did you read any docs that came with the hair?
did you contact the person who provided the hair?
what hair is it?
where did you get it?
what steps exactly did you take to install it?

Ooops, I'm really sorry,

I got the hairstyles from:  http://digitababes2.com/dload1.html

Yes, I did read the .txt files that came with them, but they are so unclear, "put this file in this folder (usually poser4 or something and I have poser 7)

Nope, I didnt contact the person

Its all the hair listed at the site provided

And I tried to follow the .txt steps and must have put them all ion the wrong folders because In my poser, I see them but there is nothing in the libraries where I see their hair names, when I open them.

Hope this helps,

Fonzie

oops,

its http://digitalbabes2.com/dload1.html

Kozaburo's hair comes with the correct folder structure in the ZIP file, except for his oldest hair models (those for the P4 woman). It's usually easiest to extract the ZIP file to the Poser 7 main folder, the hair will end up in the correct library, and the textures will also end up in the correct location.

Things can become tricky when you place the files manually. The library files are pretty easy: .cr2 goes to a subfolder of runtimelibrariescharacter, along with the .rsr or .png file with the same name.
.hr2 goes to a subfolder of runtimelibrarieshair.

The .OBJ files should go to a subfolder of ..runtimegeometries, but which subfolder, that can be tricky. Here you should follow the directions in the .txt files.
Same goes for the .JPG files, usually they should go in a subfolder of ..runtimetextures. Again, what subfolder should be mentioned in the .txt files.

-Nods-
Aha, I think I might have made it difficult for myself to attempt to do hese manually. And since I'm a novice in Poser, I will not do so and just extract these files into the poser directory as sv suggested. Thanks again for your help everyone. :)

Fonzie

Generally, people zip up all their files required for a given download into one archive that contains the entire directory structure, and you copy the entire directory structure into your Poser directory.  Eg. you unpack the zip file, and it expands to one directory called "Runtime" with some stuff underneath it.  Copy the entire directory into C:Program Filese frontierPoser and you're done.

Here is the way i did it when I dled the hair.

1. using winzip i unzipped the files into it's own unzipped folder. the folder is usually located at
   C:My DocumentsUnzippedKozaburo.

2. i go to that location and open the kozaburo folder and again using winzip, I right click on the Runtime folder within the kozaburo folder. and select "winzip > Add to Zip" this opens up winzip and creates a zip file from the folder.

3. Right-click on this new Runtime.zip file and select Winzip > Extract to, and when the box opens up select the folder that poser is installed to, i.e.
   C:Programs Folderse-frontierPoser.
   This will install the hair into the proper folders within Poser.
   Hope this helps.

Thanks for all your help, it seems the folders are now in the right place, I just have to find out how to make the hair not look like a grid. :P

Thanks!

Fonzie

In preview, it will generally look that way because the figure/prop is set to not show its texture (often preferable, in preview mode).  If it renders with a grid, then something is VERY strange, even if it's not textured, it would show up a plastic-looking white or something.

If you want the hair to show the texture in preview mode, you can select the hair and set the display type for Element, to textured/shaded - I'd post a screenshot of exactly where but I'm not in front of Poser right now.  The tool for this is at the bottom of the Poser workspace, with like 9 or 10 little circles in a row.

Wooow,
Thanks so much PJZ, that link is incredible! :O

Fonzie

Whooops,
Sorry about that PJZ, that last comment was meant for another post. Thanks for the tip and I'm trying it out now. :)

Fonzie