You can have .pz3 scene files in the library – in a way. Credit to whoever posted this tip.

Create a text file and enter:

{
version
    {
    number 4.0
    }
    readScript ":Runtime:Pz3_files:borgqueen:Borg Queen.pz3"
}

Using whatever path corresponds to your .pz3. Save it as a prop file e.g. BorgQueen.pp2. You can also save it as a .cr2. Place it in the appropriate library folder with a thumbnail and you’re done. It would be easy enough to automate this and generate stub loaders for a folder full of .pz3s – easier if you already have thumbnails or images that could be batch converted to thumbnails.

You can also simply change the file extension from .pz3 to .pp2, which seems to work – I only tested a couple of files.

The advantage of the stub loader is that the .pz3 can exist anywhere, even on a network share using a UNC path. The requirement being that the .obj, .jpg etc. files being referenced have to be either in the runtime or have an absolute reference – either local or UNC. So you can have:

readScript ":OtherMachinePoserBorg Queen.pz3”

As long as the file references are in the form:

":Runtime:textures:BorqQueen:borg_queen_texture.jpg”

Or

"OtherMachinePoser borg_queen_texture.jpg”

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N.B. I tried firing up the web server and using:

readScript "http://127.0.0.1/Poser/Borg Queen.pz3"

but no go. Since they're starting to use web protocols in Pro 2010, it may work in the future.

 

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