Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: creating a MAT pose

cmjackson opened this issue on Mar 22, 2002 ยท 24 posts


3ddave44 posted Fri, 22 March 2002 at 12:10 PM

Dragonlady, If you're getting a body texture you don't intend, it's not coming from the MAT thumbnail. The thumbnail will never effect the outcome of applying the MAT to the model. It's only a picture representation of what's in the pz2 file. So there must something wrong in the .pz2 file. Also, I regularly edit the .pz2 and .cr2 files in Notepad or Wordpad when it's too big for Notepad. The saving works likes this: If you're doing a "Save As" yourfilename.pz2 (or .cr2) it will append the .txt to it (or .doc if in Wordpad and that's the type selected); leaving you with "yourfilename.pz2.txt". The thing to do is to located the file in your file folder, select it, hit F2 (or right click and select Rename) and then put the cursor at the end of the filename and backspace the .txt out. Hit enter and the filename will now be "yourfilename.pz2". It'll say changing the extension can be bad, blah blah - it's fine because we want this extension - hit ok. If you open an existing .pz2 or .cr2 (or whatever) in Notepad or Wordpad and you make an edit but don't intend to change it's name then just hitting "Save" after you make the change should leave the extension as it was. So it's really only the "Save As" that forces the text format extension on to the file and as I've said that's fine cause you can rename the file to not have the extra .txt or .doc. I do like MAT Pose Edit but I find it saves pz2s slightly larger and are formatted less nicely when editing by hand is required. So I use it usually only as a translator of RGB color values to Poser's color value protocol. WHEW! : ) Good luck!