A hundred people have probably asked this already, but I haven't been listening... Is it possible, using Poser or some other downloadable utility, to create CR2 files? You know, so you can see them in the "Characters" or "Props" categories, rather than having to load a PZ3 file? I already have the RSR converter utility from this site. Thanks.

You're going to laugh when I tell you this ;-) Open your .pz3 file. Then save the figure and/or props to the library. Poser will create .cr2 files and .pp2 files automatically. Don't you wish everything was that easy? :-) ScottA

heyas; better yet, just change the extension from pz3 to cr2. naah, that's not really better, that'll make a bloated cr2. and prolly won't work for props -- not very well, anyway. but if you want to muck about in the files, there is a cr2 editor. actually, two. john stallings' cr2 edit(or) (aka 'poser library file editor) is available for free at the poserTECH yahoo group. cr2editor by dwilmes is available at daz, for purchase. i think there's a demo of it, but dw should be here to give you info on it soon.

LOL bloodsong! I usually only manage to make it here once a week or so, SOMEthing made me check in this morning! Yes, there has been long-standing confusion with our similarly-named apps, John developed CR2Editor and I did CR2Edit in ignorance of one another's efforts, and by the time we realized it, it was really too late to change. CR2Edit has been around for 3 years. CR2Editor, however, seems to have a 12MB file size limit, as CR2Edit4 did, so isn't usable with V2 files (CR2Edit5 is unlimited, I have opened 100MB files, 2 at once side-by-side) Another free alternative for straight editing is EditPad Lite, or BBEdit on the Mac. This being said, however, unless you are curious or on the hunt for new ways to manipulate files, there is no need to open a file in a text editor. CR2Edit5 has around 70 tools (I've lost count) to automatically mess with every type of Poser file, from cr2 to pz2 to obj(savedelete groupsmaterials, make tex templates). If interested, please try to get it thru my own site, so I don't have to pay the usual horrendous commission to Daz -- who, by the way, subsidized the developement cost of ver5, since they needed more tools to speed the production of Vicki2. Interface laid out by Micah Henry, lead artist at Daz, art by Rob Whisenant. Dan http://www.zenwareonline.com/cr2edit/cr2edit.html Sorry Win only for software http://www.zenwareonline.com for ZenPaint, ZenTile, ZenGrid and VueMaster

Egad! Thank you, one and all. I tried the trick of saving a PZ3 file to the Libraries, and lo and behold... it showed up in the menu as a CR2! Thanks for all the help.