TwiztidKidd posted at 11:31PM Wed, 17 June 2020 - #4390270

Open the PZ3 file with a good text editor like UltraEdit e.g. ... Next do a multiple search for 'jpg' ... Now you can see the path to your texture files ... You can either restructure the texture folders on your harddrive to fit the path... or replace the entire path with NO_MAP

You can open any Poser library files with a text editor, so I'd recommend fixing the texture paths in CR2, PP2, and MC6/MT5 files rather than in PZ3 files, so that the next time you load the item from the library, it'll have the right path.

I can't tell you how many times I've had to do this, not just with freebies but with items I've purchased (from various Poser marketplaces). If you have your Poser Library preferences set to "deep search," you may never realize just how many library files have wrong or incomplete texture paths b/c Poser eventually finds the items. But I keep mine set to "shallow search" so that I can identify and fix files with problematic texture paths.

I use BBEdit for Mac and have made great use of its "find and replace" features (not just in a single file but across multiple files) to fix texture paths. Like TwiztidKidd showed, if you see something like this in a file:

textureMap "D: Bob's Stuff/Some Folder/Some Other Folder/image-map.jpg"

You can just select the part between the quotation marks and do a find and replace with:

:Runtime:Textures:Bob:BobsAwesoemProp:image-map.jpg

(well, first verify that the image map is where it should be and/or put it where you want it to be)

I have no idea why this issue doesn't get caught more often in product testing. You can't always rely on Poser to alert you to the problem b/c it will try and remedy the situation for you (if you've ever loaded an item and then noticed the texture loading a few seconds later, that's what happened). But someone should at least glance at the library files in a text editor to make sure the texture paths look right! Just use the text editor's Find tool to search for JPG or PNG and that'll get you quickly to each spot!

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