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 Wed, 11 May 2022 at 7:31 AM

Y-Phil posted at 2:23 AM Wed, 11 May 2022 - #4438424

3dcheapskate posted at 9:07 AM Tue, 10 May 2022 - #4438393

And confirmation that it's got nothing to do with compressed files. Even with the OBJs extracted from the OBZs the same problem occurs.

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Curious thing though - why doesn't it ask me to locate spotLite.obj when I do 'Add a light' after 'Go back to Pose room ?

Also if, after doing 'Add a light' I change it to Infinite, Diffuse IBL, or Area Light it does that without any problem. It's specifically the Point Light that throws a wobbly. 

(No, the default scene only contains two types of lights - three Spots and one Area Light. So it's not that Poser had already loaded the othe light OBJs, at least not via the default scene)

I tried to follow these steps and problem: search=None means one question for each object present in the default scene, and the same question coming back and coming back and coming back and... pew...
I'm stopping there the test, sorry :smile:

The very first runtime for Poser11, in its Runtimes collection is its own "Poser 11 Content"

Oh dear, that's irritating ! ๐Ÿ˜„

I'm guessing that your default scene isn't the Poser default one ?

And I'd guess that your default scene includes things from other runtimes ?

I get the same if I open one of my own scenes. I get the "Please Locate..." dialog for the first OBJ. If I look for the missing file manually and click Open when I find it, then I get the "Please Locate..." dialog for the next OBJ. Etc. Then it goes through each texture JPG in turn.

On the other hand If I click Cancel (i.e. I don't look for the file manually) and when the "The file was not found. Do you want to continue to look for missing files?" appears click Yes, I then get the "Please Locate..." dialog for the next OBJ. Etc. Then it goes through each texture JPG in turn.



The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

*also available in ShareCG, DAZ, and HiveWire3D flavours (the DeviantArt and CGBytes flavour have been discontinued).