Yeah, in Firefox is shows up as a broken JPEG, and if you right-click you get "Save as Picture."

But if you rename the file from .jpeg to .txt while saving it, when you've got it on your machine you can open it up in a text editor and you'll be all set.

Believe it, dasquid.

Not too long ago, a U.S. politician used a word in a speech. The word means "grudgingly mean about spending or granting", somthing you might call someone who was both miserly and petty about it. Said word has never to my knowledge had any racial overtones.

However, the first part of said word sounds the same as the the infamous "N" word. Two similar-sounding words, different spellings, totally different meanings.

He was raked over the coals by the press. All the usual politicos who get their name in the paper for such things denounced his insensitivity in using such a word.

So you don't have to mis-read the word to get upset about it. You can get upset about it just as it is. If your're that type.

I have a poserised VW Golf that I can redistribute. Sent you an e-mail. PM me if you're interested.

This is awesome! Just the boots and the morphs would have been sweet...

Thanks! DLing now. Can't wait to try it out!

I still use P4 all the time. I don't care if an author includes RSRs. I just use P3DO Explorer to solve this problem.

1. Install P3DO Explorer and the Poser Pro Pack (both free, both here in Free Stuff, now at v 1.9.2.)

2. Open P3DO Explorer and browse to the section of your library where the "P4 Unfriendly" content resides (Poser 4Runtimelibrariescharacter... for example)

3. You will see all the content, with thumbnails, as P3DO explorer can read both PNGs and RSRs.

4. Select any the content that has no RSR file (or just select everything.)

5. From the Tools menu, select "Convert Rsr2Png..." The dialog comes up.

6. Under "Apply To", choose "Selected Files" (or "All Files" if you wish.)

7. Under "Convert From", choose ".Png to .Rsr".

8. If you don't want all those PNGs hanging around bulking up your P4 runtime, you can go under "Options" and check the box for "Remove source file after conversion".

9. Click OK and your shrugging dorks will vanish into the aether, to be replaced by glorious, full-color thumbnails!

EDIT: I see they've finally fixed the "double line break" issue with the new forum editor!

Actually, if you shift your eyes to the right a little bit, you will probably see the "Studio Maya" link listed under the "R'osity LinkShare" heading in that blue sidebar.

I'm not sure I get the reference to Lucas and 3D. To my knowledge there was very little in the way of CGI in the original Star Wars movie. It was all optical effects. The only "digital" stuff was the readouts on the weapons in the Millenium Falcon, which looked kinda like "asteroids."

(I was also suprised that, after all the fairly pointless CGI Lucas added to the re-release of Star Wars, that he didn't bother to update this one part. Sure, the Death Star blows up with an expanding ring, but the computer readouts still look like asteroids!)

So what is the connection between 3-D graphics and Star Wars circa 1977? The first movies I ever saw that made extensive use of CGI were released in 1982 - Tron, and Star Trek II: Wrath Of Khan (with the "Genesis effect".)

Also, look around for toon shading tutorials. There are quite a few of them, here and elsewhere.
BTW, I was gonna post this in its own thread, but never got around to it, partly because I didn't think I could do justice to the subject.
There's a fairly new app that just came out of beta called Filter Forge. It's a Photoshop plugin that lets you create your own filters. It uses a node-based system that is quite similar to the shader system used by Poser. I downloaded the beta, but never really got to play with it. Now it's out of beta and muy expensivo - $300. However, people who use it to create popular filters can get it for free. Check out the site link, as it's a cool piece of tech anyway you slice it.
I'm not a big photoshop user, but what caught my attention about this program was the "comic book" filter someone had created with it. I'll save 1000 words here and just show you why:

**Original Image:------------**Comic Book Filter Applied:
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You can see more variations on the page for the filter:
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/227.html
I wanted to see how it would do on Poser renders. Never got around to testing it, though. :sad:

If you have a small shop and everything is appropriately licensed, you should be able to set up mirror images of the Poser runtime folder on each machine. With identical runtimes, a PZ3 should open up identically on each machine.

A few ways to handle this:

• "Sneakernet" where you set up one runtime exactly as you want it, put it on a disk and manually copy it to each Poser workstation. You could use a CD/DVD or better still an external hard drive or thumb drive.

• Better than this is the option to do this over a network. With external runtimes, you should be able to have one "master" runtime on a shared network drive, and have all copies of poser refer to it by the same drive letter. Don't know how this would affect performance though. It would depend on the speed of your network and the speed of the server that was hosting the shared runtime.

• Another option is to use mirroring software to automatically synchronize changes between runtimes across the network. Each workstation would share its runtime with all the others, and mirroring software running on each machine would be set to push local runtime changes out to all other workstations. MirrorFolder (which I recommend highly f or this sort of thing) could easily handle a setup like this.

I love P3dO Explorer! Since I still use P4 and many of the new packages don't include RSRs anymore, that feature alone is invaluable to me. Also, when it comes time to clean up my gigantic download folders, this is the only tool that can really cut the mustard.

I thought the free version was on "permanent hiatus". This is great news! Thank you very much.

Love that tie-top! I've got to subscribe to this thread now. Keep up the cool work!

@Prikshatk: LOL! I was wondering when that would come up. It's really an issue when you consider that "laser" weapons in space should also be completely invisible - no convenient "forest smoke" for them to pass through. But it's hard to make a space battle look exciting when you can't see who's firing their weapons, or what they're shooting at.

As for light sabers, yes real light doesn't stop in mid-air but it also doesn't emerge slowly from a flashlight with a hissing noise when you press the switch. I always assumed the light saber was some kind of narrow force field projected by the handle, not an actual laser/light beam.

Some stuff Hollywood does is based on reality, but usually not. The real issue is that Hollywood establishes visual conventions that people come to regard as the standards against which other art should be judged. Sort of like Microsoft sets software "standards" by doing things a certain way, and then letting other companies copy their approach. Like MS, Hollywood has the lions share of the market, and it gives them the power to define conventions, whether they do so wisely or not.

And art has always had these kinds of conventions. Renaissance paintings had a very highly developed visual language, with symbols having particular meanings. A mouse represented the devil, a dog implied fidelity, a cat infidelity. Silent films had a similar iconography - a checkered tablecloth in a scene indicated that the family was "poor but honest" for example.

You are free to defy these kind of conventions of course, but art is like language in that if you go outside of what people expect, you can impede understanding. Paint the local noblewoman with a cat at her feet, even if she's just a cat lover, and there goes your repeat business. (Unless she suddenly finds herself wildly more popular at court, and commissions you to do a follow-up) :biggrin:

I said thanks over on the CP thread when AM was released, but I'll say it again.

Thank you very much, Anton.

Having this character to work with has really re-invigorated my interest in Poser lately. Apollo Max is just great!

Sorry, I googled "Mac Flash tools" and Incrediflash came up - but on closer look, it's really a Windows app :glare:

There must be 3rd party flash creation apps out there for the Mac, but seemingly they're not as easy to find as the PC ones (for me at any rate.) You could check out A2Flash which DEFINITELY runs on the Mac but it's feature set is a bit more limited. Maybe somebody else can pitch in. Or you could go to Flashkit.com and spend some time poking around.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Tebop, I'd urge you to do a little more research into Flash like Mamba-Negra suggested.

You don't need the full version of Flash to make something like this - a third party app that outputs Flash would be just as good, probably better. (Check out the $60 Incrediflash to start with.)

Some good things about Flash:

• You can get many of your iMovie type effects (pans, zooms, wipes, etc.) but they are faster to create and don't gobble disk space. Instead of, say 300 frames of rendered video for a 10-second pan, you are only storing one large still (the scene across which the pan is happening) and the instruction to move the "camera" across the scene. It winds up being A LOT less storage space, and therefore more content that you can fit on your disk. And of course it renders hundreds of times faster.
• If there's something that absolutely requires the odd iMovie effect (rain for example) you can render just that segment as a video and embed the video in your flash movie.
• Music and sound effects can be handled very efficiently and seamlessly in Flash, and you can also save on disk space through creative use of sound loops.

Flash will play back on nearly any system, although not a DVD player, of course.