Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Essential freeware utility for Poser

konan opened this issue on Aug 22, 2002 ยท 69 posts


crisjon1950 posted Fri, 23 August 2002 at 8:21 AM

I'd like a utility that will go over any new items in my Poser installation and convert any "jpg" bump map files to the proper bum format. You've seen those files such as skintexturebum.jpg?! Apparently I had many products which didn't have the bum files converted, and I never had a clue about the problem. That includes many DAZ products. I was only made aware of this problem when I bought the DAZ Medium-res(!?) Stephanie textures. All of a sudden Poser asked me for the bum file which didn't exist. I never had a clue as to this problem with the DAZ Mike or Vicky textures. The current method is pretty cumbersome. The user has to search the hard drive for any jpgbum.jpg files to be converted. Maybe a conversion program could be pointed at a particular new item, and automatically search and convert to bum files? Then how about a program that allows us to save our newly converted bum files with the originals perhaps? How about even repackaging them into an ".exe" or "zip" file? It is a pain in the ass to manually reinstall Poser and my stuff and repeat the bum conversion all over again.