Being new to Mac, I have a few basic questions for working with Poser 7 and Poser content from Renderosity with it. I have an iMac with Leopard OS(including all updates) and 2GB of RAM. Any advice, help is appreciated.

I would like to get some feedback from NEW (alu Augest 2007) iMac owners/upgraders on how well Poser 7 (for Mac) runs on it under Leopard OS?

Also, I am worried that content I have for Windows that I have spent lots of money on from Renderosity may not work under the Mac. Many vendors say "not tested on Mac" and I don't know if they mean you can have issues or if it will work OK and just not tested. In general, what have you found?

What is the best method for doing a download from Renderosity and opening/converting to current Mac OS format? Any good or simple conversion tool I could use that's freeware or shareware?

Do things such as Wardrobe Wizard 2.0 and most Poser tools work OK under the Mac OS Leopard?

I know I can use Boot Camp and just work under Windows XP on the iMac with out any troubles, but I really would like to avoid that and just stay under the Leopard OS. Is it best to use Boot Camp and stay all Windows or is running under Mac not a hard or troublesum as I am making it sound?

Thanks.

I don' t have Leopard, but I do work on a Mac. I have found that clothing and props work fine for the most part, but you'll need to use something like RSR converter on the product folders to change the rsr files to png or you'll get the "shrugging guy" preview:

http://braintrigger.com/software/RSRConv/index.php

(I still use Macconverter, but I'm sure I'll be switching to this soon.)

--Tim

Congrats on your new iMac! :) I'm still using an old Mac, running OS9, so I can't answer your questions regarding P7 and your new iMac. However, I do know this: Don't worry about all your purchased content, they will work fine. Long time ago (MacOS 9) Mac users needed MacConverter to set the Finder file types. So when you see the warning, "Mac Users May Need to Convert These", ignore it. When downloading files, you won't need any converting tools, just use StuffIt Expander to un-zip the files. If the file un-zips to a folder named "Runtime", do NOT drag that folder on top of your Poser7 "Runtime" folder, or all your content will be over-written. Open the folder that you just downloaded (that's named "Runtime"), and move the Geometries, Libraries, and Texture folders by hand into the folders where they need to go. Old Poser content used .rsr files to display the graphic image in the Library. Newer Poser versions switched to .pngs. So, sometimes you'll find a freebie that has an .rsr file and no .png file. It will still work if you load it into the Library but you'll have no preview image, instead you'll see a shrugging guy. X-Shruggy is a free app for OS X that will convert the .rsr --> .png file. http://www.ilike.co.nz/xshruggy/ I know of no reason why you should have to run XP on your iMac, unless there is some app that there is no Mac version. and visit the Macintosh forum! welcome! :D

I run P7 under Leopard on an Alu Intel Imac - no problems, but the external renderer can hang - out of whatever reason - the solution is switching external render off in the preferences.

Oh, I should add. Some folders will contain BOTH .rsr files & .png files. This is to maintain compatability with older versions of Poser. No conversion is necessary, just drag all the .rsr files to the trash.

PhilC has a freebie that I hadn't seen before! http://www.philc.net/ Free utility to provide easy installation of ZIP files into Poser 7. Created especially for Mac users, also good for PC users too! thanks Phil!

Thanks for all the replies, I am glad to get all the info and help I can. It's good to hear there is no problems with using Poser 7 and content on the Mac and about the tools to make life a little easier. However I'm bummed to hear the external render problem. Do you have the current patches to Poser 7 installed? Also, don't forget Apple just came out with a Firmware upgrade for NEW iMac ATA 2600 Pro cards that fixed a lot of issues they were having. Did you try that and update to leopard 10.5.1?

I appreciate the Mac welcome too, if there are any forums that are good for Mac questions, especially a noob besides the Apple forum, please let me know in case I need some good advice on other matters.

Thanks again and Happy Hollidays!

the mac forum here is another place to ask mac questions. apparently some intel imac users are not finding poser 7 to be a completely functional app, but YMMV. one thing about mac users is that they're shy or embarrassed about mentioning problems with their macs, as macs and OS X are always alleged to be trouble-free, hence any problems are usually blamed on the user. tiger and leopard may be superior to vista, which was probably based on jaguar/panther, but be prepared for some difficulties ahead.