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Subject: bum files

lwanmtr opened this issue on Sep 10, 2002 · 11 posts
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lwanmtr ( ) posted Tue, 10 September 2002 at 7:43 PM · edited Sat, 16 November 2024 at 9:05 PM

Is there a way to convert the .bum files into jpeg files?

Little_Dragon ( ) posted Tue, 10 September 2002 at 7:57 PM

Yes.

For the PC:
Anthony Appleyard's IMAGEDIT, in Free Stuff.

For the Mac:
MartinC's utilities, also in Free Stuff.


ronmolina ( ) posted Tue, 10 September 2002 at 8:15 PM

Yes! The way I do it is in Corel PhotoPaint. It will read a bum file. I think I was doing it since version 9. I just load then save as jpg. If I want to then use it in Poser4 I just manually change the extension to bum and it works fine. Ron

Ghostlake114 ( ) posted Tue, 10 September 2002 at 10:04 PM

change its extension to bmp then u any image view apps to convert it.

MisterDog ( ) posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 12:09 AM

The so-called "bum" file is really a Windows bitmap ("bmp") format with a different extension.

Cage ( ) posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 3:27 AM

Apparently the conversion from standard graphic to .bum is a bit lossy. Anthony warns that his conversion from .bum to .bmp may not perfectly reproduce the original source graphic. Not sure there is a perfect way (yet?) to convert P4 .bum files into P5 or ProPack bump graphics. If you just rename as a .bmp, does Poser read the renamed file well? How does the end result look? Haven't played with it yet, but this will be an important question, going forward....

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

c1rcle ( ) posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 3:57 AM

PS7 won't load .bum files even if you change the extension to bmp, damn wish I'd kept a copy of PSP7 loaded.

ronmolina ( ) posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 6:41 AM

Corel PhotoPaint is the only one that does a perfect translation. Not matter what I do PhotoShop will not. Ron

FyreSpiryt ( ) posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 6:52 AM

How do you convert from BUM to normal in Anthony's program? My scientific method of poking buttons until I found something didn't get me very far. ^_~ Is it in the help file?

Little_Dragon ( ) posted Wed, 11 September 2002 at 10:37 PM

He explains the method here:

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=10139&Form.ShowMessage=856231


FyreSpiryt ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 7:02 AM

That you, LD. You are very smart.

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