Hi,

In Carrara, is there a way of pointing to a particular runtime by default when searching for geometries and textures for Poser figures ?

I am asking this because I keep my figures in separate runtimes, but their geoms and textures are in the main Poser runtiime. This arrangement works really well in Poser, but not if you are loading everything up in Carrara.

In Carrara, you have to go through the hoo-haa of manually locating geometries and textures for the Poser figure, which can be a major PITA.

thanks,
Andrew

"I keep my figures in separate runtimes, but their geoms and textures are in the main Poser runtiime."

I think the problem is yours not Carraras.

Brian

For characters you use often, try putting the character into "my objects" under the objects tab. They should always have the proper pointers attached from then on.

Ok
I. You can save the file to the browser IF it's all accesable in the first place, BUT unless you can ensure files allways stay in thier original location, you have to save to the browser with hugh "save internally" file sizes,

1. The simple answer--LONG experience--is let the app save where it wants to. Let the other app access from those settings.
   3.When changing computers, OR reinstalling your files/folders, NEVER change thier locations/relationships--ever!

Hope that makes sense!

Brian

I expect that the path names for the geometry and textures in your CR2 files is off... Poser has been modified so many times that it runs through a list of about forty or so paths to find stuff before it gives up. I'm pretty sure Carrara just looks in the one that's in the CR2 file, and gives up.

If you edit your CR2 and change the paths so they point directly at the proper files, they should load in Carrara AND be faster to load in Poser.

Quote - I expect that the path names for the geometry and textures in your CR2 files is off... Poser has been modified so many times that it runs through a list of about forty or so paths to find stuff before it gives up. I'm pretty sure Carrara just looks in the one that's in the CR2 file, and gives up.

If you edit your CR2 and change the paths so they point directly at the proper files, they should load in Carrara AND be faster to load in Poser.

A gem of a suggestion.

It is a gem....
But, do you know of any program or utility that would globally change something like :

:Runtime:Geometries:*:

to :

C:Program Filese frontierPoser 7RuntimeGeometries*

inside multiple files (preferably using wildcards or regular expressions for greater flexibility) ?

thanks,
Andrew

Well, if I were going to change a batch of text files using regular expressions, I'd use the Unix program sed. Software Online has a whole suite of Unix utilities that run under Windows, which is the O/S I use now. I usually edit text files one at a time using a vi clone from the same company called Lemmy. I'm not sure what else is out there, but if you search for "regular expression" at someplace like www.download.com, I'm sure you'd come up with more options.

Quote - It is a gem....
But, do you know of any program or utility that would globally change something like :

:Runtime:Geometries:*:

to :

C:Program Filese frontierPoser 7RuntimeGeometries*

inside multiple files (preferably using wildcards or regular expressions for greater flexibility) ?

thanks,
Andrew

Boy -- wouldn't getting that right make life a whole lot easier?

CaptainJack is quite correct that Unix utilities are well suited to this-- but that's not something to play with casually. The "global search and replace" has the potential to be "global trash your files beyond redemption".

CR2 files have some hidden file attributes which have to preserved, and which certain kinds of editing -- particularly non-Windows editing-- have the potential to trash.

I'll experiment with this a bit -- sed runs on Mac just fine.

There is a "runtime repair" utility sold here at Renderosity ($16). I don't know how easy it is to use.

Quote -
But, do you know of any program or utility that would globally change something like :

:Runtime:Geometries:*:

to :

C:Program Filese frontierPoser 7RuntimeGeometries*

I would not to recommend to change it that way, but rather the other way around:
to :Runtime:Geometries:
because you already point to your Poser runtime in the Carrara browser. And what would you do if you don't work with Poser 7 anymore? Change everything to Poser 9 or whatever it is then in a few years when Poser 7 is just outdated? The Runtime will still exist.

By the way if you work with DAZ Studio it has no problems to find files that start with :Runtime:Geometries: neither have Vue or Max a problem with that because they all use a path that is locating to your Poser runtime.

The problem with difficult *.cr files is not on the side of your Poser application in most cases it's the software by vendors that doesn't point to Poser 7 or Poser Pro or :Runtime:Geometries but to such fantasy paths as D:Mydocuments:Vendorname:Poserstuff etc This is why Poser also often has a problem with it and likes to choke while searching for it. But on a vendor forum like this one it may be not the answer one wants to hear. :-)

I have noted a few issues with all carrara versions which I feel should have been addressed several versions ago.  One of the main ones is the primitive file handling in Carrara.  It frequently loses track of where textures, geometries, and other parts of a figure or shader are.    You have to do a ton of manual jumping around.  Say I opened a Poser figure like V4, then I wanted to bring in a different character textur4e and some morphs.  For each operation, you have to manually point Carrara to the right folder on the HDD.  Now on my system, I have my Poser content spread out on 2 of my 6 drives.  I have a huge amount of content which I have aquired over the years and looking up a folder would be almost impossible without using Advanced Library for Poser as sort of a file search utility.  The show references function is a life saver, but really..  It would be nice if Carrara could keep track of folders for different things, like one directory memory for textures, one for import functions and if it would keep track of where you open a scene, and where you close a scene seperately, that would be great.  I mean, you STILL can't resize the flipping file selection box...  That's just a pain...

I hope Daz will do something about this issue.  It's old, it's pretty basic, and it's VERY annoying...

Rich