Hi everyone,

I've just moved from P6 to P8 and all the oldest thumbs don't appear in the runtime menus. No png no thumb so it appears. With the bew stuff no probs but with the ones without pics I only get the default 'no pics' and the anme of the stuff. No easy way for MAT pose

Can't find a thread about this so I suppose I'm to dumb to find the evident solution...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Stephane

what happened to the old thumbs ?  Poser has always used png for thumbs since P5.  What you can do is set for a 91 x 91 render and load each item saving its render back to that library. Tedious yes indeed.

You must have searched only in the last 45 days as there are literally hundreds of posts about this.

You want to use a free tool to convert RSR files to PNG

 Oddly enough, I was working on a Poser project last night.  I decided to use an old prop file that I had to get off my CD archive.  Yeah, no thumbs, no included png files.  It has 40 props in that package without thumbs.  That's beyond tedious T.T

edit: no rsr files either ...

I believe Dizzi has a script or something in freestuff that'll convert .rsr to .png for you. It's not 100%, but it works on most of them.

Laurie

Yes, there is an .rsr to .png converter in the free section and it works better then the built in converter found in P3dO.  While P3dO requires a direct target of the folder in question, the converter script will change all the .rsr's in multiple folders.

Unless you have the full version of P3dO which allows you to select runtimes for rsr to png conversion.

In any case, I think Poser itself should do the conversion automatically when reading folders. I might be wrong but I think P5 or P6 did that.

Quote - Unless you have the full version of P3dO which allows you to select runtimes for rsr to png conversion.

In any case, I think Poser itself should do the conversion automatically when reading folders. I might be wrong but I think P5 or P6 did that.

Poser 6 read both formats I believe. Poser 8 does not.

Laurie

Indeed P5 and P6 work properly, not P8. That's an upgrade.

Here is Dizzi's converter: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=57197

I shall try it today. Thx everyone.

Do you still have P6 installed? If you do and all your content shows the thumbs in P6, you could just link your P6 Runtime folder to P8 and the thumbs should show up just fine. Don't bother installing it again to P8.

Quote - Indeed P5 and P6 work properly, not P8. That's an upgrade.

Here is Dizzi's converter: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=57197

I shall try it today. Thx everyone.

It didn't really matter that Poser 8 was an upgrade or not. Poser 8, upgrade or full version, doesn't have the capability to still read .rsr files like previous versions do. I guess SM figured it was no longer necessary since Poser has been using .png rather than .rsr since version 5 or 6. There are at least two free programs that I know of that will convert older .rsr previews - Dizzi's freebie and P3d0. Either will do the job :o).

Laurie

Maybe I am missing point, but if I look at folder with P6 it convert RSR to PNG, all done no more else.

If you add your runtimes to P6 and look at them, they should be fine when you use P8

P6 is the only version which can do this feature.  But that would mean loading all your content into P6, and, IIRC, still have looming .rsr's present in your folders.  That could add up to additional, valuable HD real estate wasted due to extra image overhead.

Quote - P6 is the only version which can do this feature.  But that would mean loading all your content into P6, and, IIRC, still have looming .rsr's present in your folders.  That could add up to additional, valuable HD real estate wasted due to extra image overhead.

The OP said he moved from P6 to P8.  Unless he reinstalled all his old content into P8 it should have been fine.

A .rsr take about 5K of space.  Really, even 10,000 of them only add 50 Mb, rather insignificant amount for contemporary disk drives of 100 GB or more.

The story was a little bit longer: PC crashed and that was terminal, rest his silicone soul. New PC, mighty beast and last of my nickles to finally going P8. So fresh start. Weeks of reinstallement etc.

By the way Dizzi rules! All clean nice and sharp thumbs in no time.

Problem solved. Happiness at last!

Thanks guys for the support.

S