vholf opened this issue on Nov 20, 2008 ยท 19 posts
Dimension3D posted Thu, 20 November 2008 at 11:47 PM
Binary Morphs is an "All or Nothing" decision. If you use partly embedded morphs and partly external morphs, it's rather likely that you will get in trouble sooner or later. Unfortunately, there's a new bug in Poser 7 SR3 which causes PMD files to be created for embedded morphs but not used by scenes, so it becomes pointless, if there are still files with embedded morphs.
I converted my complete Runtimes (i.e. all and every figure and prop with morphs) to use external binary morphs, and my experience is very well. I never had any problems loading saved scenes. The speed difference is enormous, a V3 with hundreds of embedded morphs can take up to a minute to load on my system, a V3 with the same morphs in a PMD takes a few seconds (the same time as the blank V3). And I no longer have to care about morph injections, I only use figures with all morphs already injected. Binary morphs are not loaded into RAM and only accessed if they are used, while embedded morphs have to be loaded and saved each time, also with the scene.
If you want to benefit from binary morphs, you need an external tool to extract all embedded morphs to PMD for all files. It also requires some manual preparation for figures with morph injections like V3 and V4.
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