Attached Link: http://movement.stanford.edu/santa.zip

Has anyone on a Mac downloaded and used the BVH motion files from the big archive that's been discussed in this forum? FYI, the link is... http://movement.stanford.edu/santa.zip I can't seem to import any of the files into Poser and I'm not sure why. None of the files show up when I use the Import BVH menu item. Could it be an OS X thing? Can't wait for a native OS X version of Poser!!! TIA

I am on a mac and couldn't use them. Got an error message. Something like body parts named as missing.

Hmm...but I don't even SEE them in the import dialog box when I navigate to the folder where they're stored. But I know they're there! Did you try to import them in OS 9 or X?

They work in OS 9.x with no conversion or file-retyping, so maybe this is yet another OS X problem to add to the rapidly growing list ;-) The UNIX OS probably misinterprets the bvh extension, but the Mac OS seems to handle it o.k.

Another thing that happened to me on my Mac a while back (haven't tried these latest ones, yet)... a BVH file gave MANY errors in Poser when it was double-spaced (it came out that way, perhaps when converted from some other line-endings?), but then was fine when I removed the double-spacing.

I had no trouble at all importing those BVH files to see what they would do. My system specs are OS 9.2; Poser 4.0.3 with ProPack SR 3; 384 MB RAM; 10 GB HD; iBook PPC G3 500 MHz. I have also upgraded to OS 10.1.3 in another partition, but I never run Poser under OS 10. In fact, the only time I use OS 10 is for Bryce 5.1 (the upgrade is at Corel's web site), because it renders about 3X faster than under OS 9.2.

Its NOT an OSX issue !!

Im on a MAC G3 Poser pro SR3
with OS 9.2 on my 20 Gig Quantum Drive
and OS 10.1.3 on a separate 9 Gig seagate drive
Poser would not "See" Those BVH Files from that Huge
free archive BUT Credos Lifeforms Can!!
So i first preview the BVH of my Choice in Lifeforms
and then resave it as a BVH from lifeforms and then poser Can See it all of a sudden
and since these files place your figure chest deep
in the floor i run a python script that automatically
brings thier feet to the floor and render away!!
A few extra steps BUT Certainly worth it
:-)

I just needed to change the type and creator to TEXT and ttxt to get the bvh files to work! Yay!

Attached Link: http://www.soft-rabbit.com/

Maconverter will handle this as well, just like the other importable formats.

Wow! Never thought about Maconverter although I use it all the time for the typical Poser files. Didn't think that it would do anything for a "generic" document. Will have to try that now just as an experiment. Thanks.

Maconverter attempts to convert and/or adjust every Poser3/Poser4 related file, so if you drag the folder icon of an extracted archive it should deal with everything within that needs special treatment. However (and for a variety of reasons), I do not support PPP at the moment.