Yes, for the last 3 days, I'm getting the same pair of emails regarding 2 items in my wishlist that apparently have gone on sale. I expect I'll be getting them again tomorrow...

Thanks, nruddock! I am indeed using P5. Would you know offhand of a similar function call in P5?

Hi templargfx, I tried running the python script you supplied in msg #5 above but nothing seems to happen as far as removing textures from the figure except for this 3-line message that appears in the python window:

Traceback(most recent calls last):
File, line 8, in ?
AttributeError: LoadMaterialSet

I tried placing my "Clear.mt5" in different folders and also supplying a complete pathname (starting with "c:...") to the LoadMaterialSet call but nothing seems to help.

Any ideas what I should try?

Thanks!

Thanks templargfx, that's a perfect explanation and I'll be trying it soon. Also randym77's link to a thread about shading rates as an alternative to texture filtering helped a lot.

Hi again, sorry, I still don't know what exactly the contents of this material file you refer to should be? I want every body part to not have any texture. I don't care what color the body part itself is--pure white, black, it doesn't matter. What should go into this material file? Is it a text file that I create with an editor? Thanks again for your help.

Thanks templargfx, sounds good but I have one question. I'm not sure what I should use for "clear.mt5" as I have not .mt5 files in my materials folder to use as a guide. I really want no texture maps loaded at all as even a "blank" one will not stop poser from doing its texture filtering calculations. Is there a way to program a python script to simply remove all maps associated with all the body parts/zones so that you get a completely untextured figure? Thanks again.

Thanks randym77 and ernyoka1, I'll look into your suggestions. I did mean to ask specifically about MAT files but forgot to put it into my post.

I got 3 today... very old purchases. Hope this is fixed.

I had a hair prop that glowed like that because of its "transluscence" setting in the material room. I lowered it from 1 to about .2 and compensated by "raising" the ambient color from black to medium gray (RGB = 128/128/128).

Thanks...but where is the v3 version that you mention? That would be just as good as the v2. BTW, I did try contacting him but probably English poses too much of a problem. Thanks again.

Also always check the size of the textures for each item. I once had a problem rendering a complicated image until I reduced the sizes of several textures. For example, one pair of shoe props used a leather texture that was 4000x4000! I saved the original and reduced it in photoshop to 1000x1000 which was more than enough for my purposes.

Thanks for the input, everyone.

Moe---The prop is definitely loaded only once.

ockham---I tried bucket sizes from 32 to 512 but it made no difference.

MungoPark---I'll check that link out. The blinds do seem to be one-sided as the beige material color disappears when you look at the reverse side (it's black).

Thank you again.

Hi ockham,

Thanks...I did check the PZ3 file and the pathnames refering to "camera.obj" seemed correct ("runtime:geometries: ... :camera.obj").

I also saved the file under a new name and the problem persisted.

As I mentioned, I didn't have any problems working with the file (adding figures to it, rendering, etc.) even when I ignored poser's prompt to locate the missing file. I'm guessing "camera.obj" corresponds to the on-screen representations of the cameras but even they appear normal.

Thanks...great stuff. Looking forward to more tutorials.

Thanks for the answers. I was hoping to install P5 into just C:poser instead of the convoluted c:program filescurious labsposer but as Lyrra points out that may cause havoc with my old PZ3 files as far as finding geometries and textures. Maybe I'll try it anyway.