Forum: Poser 11 / Poser Pro 11 OFFICIAL Technical


Subject: Why does Poser ask me to locate a file when its already pointing at it ?

3dcheapskate opened this issue on May 09, 2022 ยท 18 posts


3dcheapskate posted Tue, 10 May 2022 at 7:44 PM

That's an interesting point as the only light geometry that cause a problem (pointLite.obj) is 9 characters, whereas the other 3 that don't (areaLite.obj, infLite.obj, and spotLite.obj) are 8 or less.

However, Head.obj is only 4 characters and the same problem occurs with that too.

So I don't think that's the problem - at least not for Head.obj. Although it could be the problem for pointLite.obj I think it more likely that an an explanation that applies to both pointLite.obkj and Head.obj will be the answer

P.S. I recall having to use eight character filenames (usually 6 characters followed by ~1, or ~2, etcwhen using the DOS cd (change directory) command, and having to use  dir /x (print directory, displaying 'the short names generated for non-8dot3 files') to find out what 9+ character directory names had been truncated to. I just checked and it's still the case if you run cd from a command prompt in Windows 10. dir /? gives the explanation of the /x option. So, for example, a file/directory called 'My Poser Stuff' would be truncated to 'MYPOSE~1'



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