On the PC. I only bought one thing for the Pro Pack by mistake but a lot other purchases seem to have pngs instead of rsr's, not all bought here. Some are very hard to use without a thumbnail. I thought I had seen something in freestuff to facilitate this but I'm not sure I downloaded the right thing. When it gets too techie, I suppose I could use a little hand holding. So to speak.

I didn't make it too clear, I realize, I have Poser 4.03 with the patch, not the Pro Pack, don't need the Pro Pack.

I suggest you do your homework. Just go to Free Stuff, and look for something called P3Do Explorer. One of the things it does is the png to rsr conversions. Ron

Is there anything like that out there for the Mac users? - JimX

P3Do Explorer is a great tool. It will grab an entire directory for you and switch png's to rsr's or rsr's to png's. Hopefully at some point it will add a feature to delete the old file as well. Saving me a step. :) It does a few other things too but I've yet to try most of them. as for MAC... you should consider buying Virtual PC or Orange PC so you can run PC apps. There's hundreds of them you're missing out on. It's too bad p3do isn't Java though. If it was you could run it on Windows, OSX, Unix, and Linux all using the same compile. (I'm a coder for a java tool called PCGen which gets this benifit by virtue of Java, it really helps us out in the support arena.)

Asking questions is doing homework Ron! You should know that! You have asked many an INANE question in the past that could easily have been read about in the poser manual or the Handbook.....and NOBODY told U to do your homework!!!! Cut these people some slack for Jehosaphat's sake!!!!!! starting to really lose it

You should try contacting the vendor and see if she/he will send you the RSRs - most go out of their way to be helpful. BTW, VirtualPC is pricey, but useful. I've got the Windows98 version running on my 400MHz G3 (which does have lots of cheap memory added) and the only useful PC app that won't run is Mimic (because the protection scheme won't recognize the CD is in the drive, even though it installed from the same CD). I did have to manually move P3DO Explorer's DLLs into the System folder. Now that I think, I believe someone (Daio?) had a clever work around involving a dummy cr2 that you ran through MartinC's Maconverter to split out the RSR, then renamed with your file and ran back to Mac format. I'll see if I can find the thread.

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Found it. From Daio: use my quick and dirty cheat. Create a .cr2 file (or any poser library file except a pose file) with the thumb you want on the MAT file. Run that file and your MAT file through MacConvert using the Export to PC function and make sure to check the "Delete Macintosh resource fork" box. You'll end up with 4 files a .cr2 and a .rsr and a .pz2 and an .rsr. Delete the .cr2 and the .rsr file from the MAT pose file. Change the name of the .rsr file from the .cr2 file to match the MAT file. Run the .rsr and the MAT file back through MacConverter to create a Mac MAT pose file with the correct thumb. Not as good as having the original RSR, but better than the Grey Shrugging Guy. BTW, I'm adding the URL for Martin C's invaluable free Mac utilities, in case you don't have them yet.

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ahem ... Sacred Rose/Ron ... I'm not a moderator neither someone else important here - just to make this clear before I'll be flamed ... lol. Ron: I think beginners have the right to ask "dumb" questions - that's why they are a beginner ;-). So just give a nice answer and maybe don't try to teach someone ... it may could be misinterpreted SacredRose: Calm down ... As JeffH said allready in another topic ... try to keep such things in private mails (if you need to ...). We lost allready the C&D - forum ... don't make it worst at it is allready ... queri: The P3doExplorer is from Yarp and available at (follow the link) - it's a great tool - not only for converting rsr <-> png.

I really believe there is nothing wrong with urging people to make the best of their resources. Click on the link for Frequently Asked Questions. Look over this Forum, and read. You'll see that many questions have been answered several times a week. If you're looking for Free Stuff, click on the link to Free Stuff. Spend some time looking at all the goodies. Use the Search Function. You're the one who will benefit. So why not spend some time and effort to help yourself? Ron

Hmm - Ron ... if you don't ask - you won't learn ... the more questions you ask - the more you'll learn - and the more people you'll learn to know ... A community is living - if there are people who ask - and if there are people to answer ... See: I'm a webdesigner - I give teaching lessons in HTML - don't ask me how often I answered the question "Why is this not running ?" -> But hey, I don't know how often the same person who is maybe a car-mechanican answered the question "Why is my car not running ?" - we all have our positive and negative abilities - use your positive ones to help ... Not every person have the time to look at all the threats going around or even know that there is - for example - a search function in threats allready implemented. Another thing is: Why not talking ?? Some great ideas rise from the dumbest questions because people are getting to brainstorm during the development of a threat ... - and I think this is fine so :o). If you have the time to go to all the threats ... hey great - use your knowledge to help answering the "not so intelligent" - question - I think then this world will have some more happier people living in it :o).

This is the way I see it: You need to be willing to spend your own time doing research and getting help. If you don't, then you put the burden on others. Many of us have better things to do than answer the same questions over and over and over. That is why we have Frequently Asked Questions at the top of the page. That is why our messages stay around after they're written. It's all here for the taking. Ron

The reason we have a forum is to talk, ask questions and offer help to others who need it. If you have better things to do than answer a question repeatedly, then don't answer the question. Someone else who doesn't resent doing so will surely pop up and do it for you. No-one said you had to answer every single question in this forum. Sometimes biting your tongue and not saying anything is more helpful than biting remarks like "doing homework" and "many of us have better things to do". These sorts of comments could make a real beginner rather dubious about posting their comments and questions in this forum. And we want the beginners to feel comfortable and welcome, not stupid and inadequate. Just my 2 cents (which in Australia doesn't mean much s)

Um, I've practically lived in Free Stuff's Utilities for two days. [Sorry, it took me so long to answer, I went to bed] I didn't quite understand what P3DO did, even though it was mentioned alot there. It also seemed like I might not be able to understand enough to run it. Plug-In Manager for PhotoShop gives me problems so I'm a little nervous about utilities in general. [Though I know how to troubleshoot Windows pretty well, and am more techie than most of my friends, I'm still slightly phobic in that area] I've had Poser 4 for a couple of weeks and I know who the characters are and what the tags mean and all that-- though I got a little confused when .obj was both geometries and morphs and went in different folders-- have to rearrange again. I did try to do my homework-- but the title P3DO isn't quite as informative as RSR Converter, so that's what I looked at. I'll check out the other now, and thank you for telling me about it. I've also been reading the forum for well over a month. It's why Poser was so easy for me when I started. I owe a huge debt to all of you. I just didn't know the answer to this question so I asked. I read the FAQs too, but I probably did that before this problem came up. The reason I asked the question, is I wanted to know what I could to to fix the problem before I hassled the people I bought the items from.

Oh, just ignore him. Easy solution. Start with a clean file. Load the shrugging dude. Return it to the library with the +. Rsr created. It also gives you a chance to see how the model actually loads without other items in the way, what weird quirks it might have, basic scaling, etc.

I went to Seno's site-- I've already downloaded this [but haven't installed it yet] and bookmarked the site. Geeze, I feel like an idiot now. I got confused because it says it's a browser, I kept thinking I was looking for another kind of utility. Yeah, at the end it says RSR to PNG convertor-- since I wanted to go the other way, maybe that's what confused me. I don't know what's worse, being accused of not doing my homework, or actually doing the homework and flunking it.

"Easy solution. Start with a clean file. Load the shrugging dude. Return it to the library with the +. Rsr created. " I've done that with refitted hair and other things, but the picture created isn't very helpful. I'll try it again.

queri - lol - never mind ... that's the way of learning ;o). The P3DO rsr to png (and vice versa) - converter is made for huge conversions (like some people are doing with my poses) - If you have only to save this and that character - do it like CryptoPooka described ...

OK, I apologize for sounding.... obnoxious. It is easier if you tell us up front what you already tried. That way we won't recommend what you've already tried. I know what you mean about P3DO Explorer. I still find it somewhat confusing. I did have the pleasure of some direct email correspondence with Yarp about the program. Yarp helped me understand more about the program, and we worked together to identify a problem with the way P3DO Explorer handles Windows XP zip files. Ron

It'll mean load the character in Poser (!) and then save it in the approbiate library (props, character, etc)

I'm sorry People i got lost here and now my question. I have those P3DO Explorer but i can't find anything to convert png's to rsr. I also got the RSRconverter but i guess this exe doens't work as well. I tried to convert a png to rsr and clicked on ok and i guess what i got for a message. PICT image must be 91x91 pixel and guess what...yeah it has the pixel but i doesn't work. So any helpful props on here

Very old, very wise saying: "the only dumb (stupid) question is the one not asked." Enough said

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I made a tute on this a little while back, it may help if you haven't solved your prob yet just go to my site and under tutorials you should see it.

Attached Link: http://www.digitalskinz.com

I made a tute on this a little while back, it may help if you haven't solved your prob yet just go to my site and under tutorials you should see it.