Is anyone encountering problems with installing and using in P5 Python Scripts that worked in P4? I ask because I have run into problems trying to use PC Bos' "Environmental Deluxe" radiosity script package (sold by DAZ) in P5. Most of the scripts just generate an error message in P5 (but never did in P4).

Can you list the exact error message? Here's some pure wild guesswork: As far as I can tell, Python itself and the available functions within Poser, seem to be about the same as before. I don't see any new or altered functions relating to lights. But P5 clearly handles lighting in some new ways internally. I wonder if Bos was checking for certain ranges of values, and P5 gives different ranges or wider limits when Python asks the value of some light parameters?

If you've still got poser4 installed you could use the script in poser4 to generate the lights, save them to the library then open them in poser5, I'm sure PC Bos will be working on this soon as he gets poser5 if he hasn't already.

Poser 5 is using Python 2.2, where Poser 4 Pro is using Python 1.5.2. These two Python versions are source compatible, but not binary compatible, which means that scripts for Poser 4 Pro that are .py files (text files) are compatible with Poser 5, where scripts in binary formats like .pyc and .pyd need to be recompiled from the source code to run with Poser 5. The APIs of Poser Pro Pack and Poser 5 are the same, but the Poser 5 implementation includes improvements and bugfixes.

Well, that explains it. Many of the Environmental deluxe scripts are "pyc". I know nothing about "compiling from tge source code", so I hope PC Bos is paying attention and will modify the package. Anyone have a contact source for him that I can use?

That's a valuable fact. I didn't realize the binaries were incompatible. Probably I didn't see it happen because my development directory is always in .py form, so everything ran identically in both versions. When I release a script in .pyc form, I'll be sure to run it in both versions and send the .pyc files separately!

This appears to be a case-by-case situation. Some of the scripts that I've written and compiled to .pyc files in P4 work just fine in P5 without re-compliing while others don't. Might be worthwhile to try the scripts in both P4 and P5 before having two versions and the overhead that results.

Environmental Deluxe works for me in P4, but only some of its scripts (all of thge "pyc" ones) don't work for me in P5. Does anyone know how to contact PC Bos about this?

I'm downloading Python 2.2.2 at the moment, ready to get to learning it. From what I gather of this thread, a question arises: Are scripts I write in 2.2.2 backwards compatable with 1.5.2? I know, maybe need different compiling, but OTHER than that? Also, what would be the best set of downloads to get started to learn Python scripting that is P4-5 specific? Thanks!
Adam