Forum: Freestuff


Subject: The dark side of the free stuff section.

tonyvilters opened this issue on Dec 29, 2015 · 17 posts


feecozen posted Thu, 04 February 2016 at 12:12 PM

EldritchCellar posted at 1:09PM Thu, 04 February 2016 - #4252768

"Also, please consider noting the compatible OS on the product thumbnails. As a Mac user, I spend a good deal of time multi-clicking through items only to find they're Windows-only. This goes for all Marketplace items, not just Freestuff. Thanks."

Except for windows only software, and certain Poser items from poser 4 era, all poser files/.obj/.3ds/.car/ etc models are crosscompatible between mac and windows OS. This is a prehistoric notion that I'm surprised anyone is still baffled by. I'm also a mac user and haven't encountered an OS incompatible file in years, and especially anything made within the past 5 years. 00... are you using Poser 4?

Although I am in my 60s and have been using Macs, and Poser, since the 1990s, I'm not sure I qualify as "prehistoric" and "baffled." I'm using Poser Pro 2014, BTW.

I did a random search through Marketplace, and while many of the items I checked did specify both Mac and PC compatibility, many others (non-freebies -- $$) listed things like: "This product … has not been tested on a Mac. It should work in Poser on a Mac for all I know." "This product has NOT been tested on a Mac. No Mac support is provided." "This product can be used in Windows OS (from Windows XP to Windows 8.1)"

The products may in fact work on a Mac. My only point was that in most cases you have to read through the "fine print" in items' "Description" section to find out that they may not and will be unsupported if they don't. Putting little Windows or Mac logos on item thumbnails in the Marketplace catalog would just save time -- unless Microsoft and Apple would charge Rendo for that, in which case it wouldn't be worth it. Just a suggestion, that's all.