McGrandpa posted at 10:04AM Tue, 18 February 2020 - #4380865

Am I correct in thinking that PMD's are used by Poser in LOADING Figures, even when we do not tick the box "Use external binary morph targets" under General Preferences>Misc.>Save Files? And is that something Poser looks for in the same location as the Figure, so if it exists, its loaded with the called Figure, even if a call for a PMD isn't made in the PZ2 calling the Figure?

My belief is that .PMD files are only created when you perform a save and the "Use external binary morph targets" is checked. I have just done a scan of my runtimes looking for .PMD and the scan found 29, that is over 350Gig of runtimes. These appear in a number of places, some in the character Library but also in the prop and in the materials library and all are clearly there due to the vendor. Searching my save library of scenes, clothing and base base figures no .PMD are found so clearly I am not generating any such files when I save and that also covers the autosave folders in used in 11.2.

Scanning my whole system the total number of .PMDs rises to 299 the different being that the system search includes the default Poser runtime on my C drive and the scan of my runtime drive, drive M does not.

Once again I totally accept that the problems with .PMD files when introduced with Poser 6 were rectified between Poser 8/2010 and Poser 9/2012. Their use does reduce the hard drive space needed for storage and also gives a faster load but I am set in my ways and lost some scenes in the past that I had worked on for a long time. For that reason alone I now unselect the option on all new installs of Poser

 

 

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