gagnonrich opened this issue on Nov 25, 2011 · 55 posts
Blackhearted posted Sat, 26 November 2011 at 11:02 AM
"FYI, bet you did not know that as a vendor you are also asked to pull the zipped file from an older version of Poser so that when a customer unzipps it, they don't get that little message," this was created in an earlier version, Poser will attempt to load it."
Example, when I create a new product and get it ready for users, it was requested that I put it in an older version of Poser so that the customer did not get that message, so vendors like me use older versions alot to package and finish the creating process in (my example) Poser 6."
recently ive been setting mine to the earliest version of poser known to support the features used in the product. im not going to set it back to, say, P4 if the product only works in P8+.
"I wasn't clear. I understand the switch to png's and am fully behind that - I was converting to them back when I had P4ProPack, after all. What I was talking about was removing Poser's ability to read rsr's at all. Converters are, as has been said, free but it did force an additional hastle on some customers who didn't really want it - that seemed needless."
there is no reason to use RSRs anymore. IIRC GND2/Irina Adventuress were the last products i made them in.
the way i see it (and ill take flak for this im sure) is that if you are using a piece of softare that is a decade outdated then the onus is on you to learn how to convert new content to it, not vice-versa. it is holding back merchants to have to support the previous half dozen versions of poser, some of them a decade outdated. and no im not referring primarily to RSRs, but it is an example of outdated technology along with other favorites like .BUM files :P*