Yvan opened this issue on Mar 06, 2003 ยท 6 posts
Yvan posted Thu, 06 March 2003 at 9:26 PM
Hi, We're trying to make Poser Props and send them to our PC. The props work just fine, but on our PC they have no thumbnails! On our Macs we can see them just fine, and I've looked at the file with Graphic Converter. It sees the thumbnail, and shows it in the file preview window before you open it. But of course it's not a 3D app, so it can't open the file, just show us the thumbnail. We've noticed on the PC each prop seems to have a file ending in .rsr. That's what seems to be missing on the Mac side! Any clues? We want to make our props fully cross platform. Thanks for any help!
Little_Dragon posted Thu, 06 March 2003 at 10:09 PM
In the PC version of Poser, a prop and its Library thumbnail are two separate files. Something to do with the fact that PCs don't have resource forks, I believe. Posers 3-4 use the .rsr format for thumbnails; Pro Pack and Poser 5 use .png format.
Have you tried running your Mac files through MartinC's Maconverter utility?
Yvan posted Thu, 06 March 2003 at 11:51 PM
Thanks Little Dragon, Didn't know they had switched formats above Poser 4. I've just tried Maconverter, and it just tells me there is nothing to convert! Odd, no seperate thumbnail file appears on my Mac... yet I can still see the thumbnail with Graphic Converter, and within Poser itself in the Props index...
Little_Dragon posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 12:12 AM
Umm ... I don't really know how it works ... you'd be better off asking a Mac user ... but did you set it to convert Mac --> PC? I think it defaults PC --> Mac.
MartinC posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 2:30 AM
Little_Dragon is right, you need to select menu "Expert > Export to PC" and you'll get a different dialog box where you can create the .rsr files.
Yvan posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 10:45 AM
Thanks, that was the trick! Now I've got the pesky little .rsr file. :)