Cool, thanks!

~Wolfie~

:-)

~Wolfie~

Excellent thank you!!
HEY BRAN BUGS!

~Wolfie~

Yeah it seems to be ok now.. It was really odd.  Was like a light switch, off and on, off and on.
Guess it was just one of those days for odd things to happen.  :-)

Thanks EnglishBob.

~Wolfie~

Ok, let me try and explain it a little more.. it's easy for me to see it in my head, but wording it.. that is a whole new ball game.

So how about steps... In this example, I'll go with the barrette/ribbons again.

In Poser I create all the CR2's for the Barrettes.
Open each one in turn in CR2 Builder, and strip out all the extra stuff that I do not need and only leave the materials for the Barrette.

Now I want to use the same mats to make matching ribbon textures, but I do not want to have to go back into Poser and manually apply them all, and create CR2's for every ribbon, and then strip the CR2s with CR2 Builder.

I want to just copy the mat poses I created earlier for the Barrettes, batch rename the files to Ribbons (which I can already do) and then within the pz2 itself, the material needs to be changed to Ribbons (which I can also already do)

But in this case, there are more then one material for the ribbon, but each material would use the same settings.  So what I need to be able to do is clone the first (and only) material as many times as I need for the ribbon, and change the name of each of the new materials created...In this case material Ribbon1, material Ribbon2, material Bow1, and material Bow2.

Did that make sense?  lol

I have since finished doing this all by hand, but would love to get my hands on a tool that can help with this sort of process by automating it... (sort of a script that I can run - add this X number of times, set this this, change that to that, and run.)  lol  Sorry I am not a programmer by any means.  lol

~Wolfie~

Ahh I'll have to take a look in the free section.

Doing in Poser, for me, is very time consuming.  I used to do it that way for my hair expansions, doing each texture mat separately.. but if you look through my hair add on packs, you can see why I needed to come up with a better solution and so have a small Groovy script that my hubby wrote for me to automate some of the process..  This works wonders for hair tiles since the only difference in the files is the numbering.  The file names themselves remain the same.. ex: 001-Hair-Tile.jpg, 002-Hair-Tile.jpg etc..

But with things like ribbons and barrettes that could use Material Room merchant kits along side PSP made textures, this little Groovy script won't always work in cases like that ...which is where my hunt comes into play...  lol..

Anyway, thanks for the tip about the free section.  Never thought to scour it.

~Wolfie~

I haven't used P3do in a long time, but heard that it often causes a similar occurances..  I did manage to find a work around.. Odd and maybe a little tedious.. but it worked.

I ended up downloading and re-installing P3do in the end, and opened each the thumbs and resaved as rsr, then opened Poser and navigated to the folder with the problematic thumb, and voila it was there.. when I went back to the folder in Windows Explorer, it had created fresh png files.

~Wolfie~

Quote - Love the motto

LOL!  Thanks!  :-)

~Wolfie~

Cool. I never knew about that setting.  Thanks you two...

I changed it to 150, but the last thumb still shows up wonky.  Weird.  Maybe I'll try redoing just the last thumb now that the setting has been changed.  :-S

~Wolfie~

Quote - wouldn't help anyway if you didn't know who to ignore before they spammed ya would it?

I'll bring the suggestion up to my fellow admins and see what we could be able to do...nothin' promised mind ya, but I can ask

~Jani

Very good point.  :-)  Thanks for passing the idea along just the same!  :-)

~Wolfie~

Quote - There should be an option, to set a "member" on an "ignore" list in the Renderosity site mail system ...

Yeah that would be a nice added feature.

~Wolfie~

Quote - I got it too.  Pass me a flame thrower and a bucket of acid will you ? :cursing:

LOL!!!

~Wolfie~

Quote - It is going to take a little time to make our changes. Please give us till this afternoon to make the necessary adjustments and get all the freebies on the front page in an article (like the annual holliday giveaway)

Preston

Thanks Preston, I was just going to say 'they're working on a solution right now...'

~Wolfie~

Quote - I fully agree with Wolfie , if it was $.5.00 from the very beginning no one would have even mentioned anything."

I'm not dead sure about that. I know that I don't like giving gifts where the person I am giving it to gets charged for it. And worse yet not by me! We pulled our products so that they could be put on our web site and in the regular free stuff outlets so they would be what we had intended them to be. a gift.

That is a very good point Khory_D!  We probably would have said something.. because 'free' means free.. no charge, zip, zilch, zero.. not a free with a minimum purchase.  tisk tisk.

I do want to thank you also, for standing up to it, by pulling your items.  If that doesn't get the point across to rendo, then well......  you know where I am going with this.  :-)

Quote - On the other hand, you get what you pay for.

True, but the first day the freebie thing started, I was lucky enough to actually get stuff for free, there was this green gown... Envy if I recall (I haven't downloaded any of it yet) and when I saw it, I was like 'what?? free?? seriously??' as it was gorgeous!

It's probably still there, but I haven't been back since they changed free to minimum purchase...

~Wolfie~

Yes, exactly.  :-)

~Wolfie~