I'm about ready to release a new version of RTEncoder that has been ported to Python.  I'm looking for a few beta testers to help make sure there are no cross-platform or backward compatibility problems.  I'm especially looking for folks with older versions of Poser and Mac Poser users.

If you would like to get an early beta copy of RTEncoderPy, please send an email to support@rtencoder.com with your name, platform (Win/Mac) and version of Poser.

Thanks!
Russell

Which versions of Poser (and therefore Python) are including support for ?

Hi nruddock.  I honestly don't know which versions of Poser it runs in.  That's part of why I'm looking for beta testers to help me determine that.  I can only test with what we have installed here, and that's version 7 on Windows.

Quote - I honestly don't know which versions of Poser it runs in.  That's part of why I'm looking for beta testers to help me determine that.  I can only test with what we have installed here, and that's version 7 on Windows.

If you've developed using P7 then that's Python 2.4

If what you've created is pure Python, then there's a fair chance it would work in P5/P6 (i.e. Python 2.2), the only caveat being that if your intending to supply as a PYC file one will need to be created by/for the appropriate Python version; if it's an extension written in C or C++ then it's specific to the version of Python its been compiled against.

So the real question is what is RTPython, a Python module (compiled or uncompiled), or an native extension, or a mixture of both ?

Will the license terms be similar to those of RTEncoder ?
Are both decode and encode available, or will encoding need a paid license like RTE V2 ?

Ok, that clarifies your question a bit.  :)

It was developed outside of Poser using Python 2.3 and 2.5.  It will be supplied to the end user in .py files, to be as cross-platform as possible.  Pure Python, no C++, no .pyc.  The license is the exact same as RTEncoder and includes both encoding and decoding support.

Hope that helps.

Russell

One more point, RTEncoderPy only supports RTEncoder 1.0 files.  RTEncoder 2.0 files are not supported.

from what I've read, in regard to running python scripts outside poser 7, there are
various FUBARs involving leopard, but nothing concrete for tiger, which I've got.
e.g., the "pythonlauncher" app is causing leopard users some problems, including
something about causing terminal.app to fail.

unfortunately, the schemes to allow running python scripts from terminal involve the
usual endless series of package installers.  e.g. first ya gotta install one package, but
before that ya gotta install another package, and oops! we forgot to tell ya, ya gotta install
yet another unspecified number of packages before that :lol:

hence I daresay I'll continue to run the scripts only from inside poser 7.

If it's pure Python, it should work from all Windows Poser versions, with
one possible problem:  there are a number of newer tricks in Py 2.2
that weren't in 1.5.  I've sent you an email requesting beta.......