Quote - Will rsr support be provided in future updates to Poser 8?  I've got DAZ content up to 2006 that only provided rsr files for thumbnails. It's a bit ridiculous to not make Poser 8 backwards compatible to all content made for the program.  I'd forgotten that P8 isn't fully backwards compatible to earlier versions when I ordered it last month. Otherwise, I'd have held off till all the problems are fixed.

I don't like having to run another program to convert rsr files to png files, every time I install content that's a few years old to my P8 runtime, just to see thumbnails that I had no problem seeing in every other version of Poser. I've got way too much older Poser content, going back to the early days of the Poser, and only install what I'm immediately going to use. There's no point in installing every single Poser file I've got and bloat up my runtime when I'm only using a fraction of the files. The program needs to be fully compatible with the content available for it since it relies wholly on that content to be usable.

 

I realize you do not wish to install any more programs into your system but in the freestuff is RSR Converter 1.0.0.2. It's a 224k zip stand alone. No system overhead or .dll files to be installed. I keep all my projects in seperate runtimes and only add the ones I need to P8 then remove them when finished. I too use a lot of older content and a simple run of this converter fixed anything thrown at it yet. It will run recursively through the directory tree you give it un-attended and will not mess with anything but RSRs. It's speedy. Takes only seconds to charge through the runtimes I give it and when I finish a project I can just zip up the runtime and remove it from P8 and stored for future use. The added bonus is that of course you will never have to run the converter again on those runtimes. Just an idea.

BTW I don't think you will be seeing RSR support in P8 any time soon. If that was going to happen I suspect it would have happened in one of the service packs by now. As for other problems with the software I suggest that you post the problems you are having and no doubt someone with more knowledge will be sure to help. The software is a little trying on my less than state of the art PC but running SR3 I have had no problems what so ever.