gagnonrich opened this issue on Nov 25, 2011 ยท 55 posts
gagnonrich posted Sun, 27 November 2011 at 3:48 AM
Attached Link: https://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=4398
Most DAZ originals up to 2006 were RSR only, including the Clyde Puffer I've linked that was released in Aug 06. It's still available. Up until Poser 8, the conversion was automatic, so there was no need to include PNGs if somebody wanted to keep the file size down.As to when something is old enough to stop being supported is a tough question. I guess it gets down to availabilty and criticality. I wouldn't say any content for Poser is very critical. Old business correspondence and spreadsheets could be needed years later. It's important for MS Office to be able to read those files long into the future. Then it gets down to a question of availability. If all DAZ originals didn't have PNGs until after 2006, how much content is still in the DAZ store that won't show thumbnails in Poser anymore? I'd guess a couple thousand products. Older Poser users have a lot more content from older purchases and freebies that don't have PNGs.
One funny thing is that Poser still imports MetaCreations 3D Paint files. I've never run across any 3D file that uses it. I wouldn't be upset to see that functionality go away someday because I've never needed it.
Quote - *"RSR is outdated for thumbnails and I was surprised that Sharen mentioned that some stores still ask for it to be used"*I am confused, why would you be surprised I mentioned it?
Only because I was unaware that any store would still want RSRs. It was interesting info I didn't know.
My visual indexes of Poser
content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon