Demon opened this issue on May 09, 2003 ยท 11 posts
Demon posted Fri, 09 May 2003 at 3:02 PM
I installed SR3 yesterday and notices that now all png thumbs in the library are shown up as empty circles? (No, not that shoulder shrugging guy!)
Has anyone got a solution or am I only a little bit dump?
Any hint appreciated !
Cheers from Germany
uli_k posted Fri, 09 May 2003 at 3:16 PM
This sounds very odd. Can you tell what happens when you go in the library with your favourite image viewer and look at the PNGs? On my machine here (with SR3 installed), all the PNGs in the library are fine.
Demon posted Fri, 09 May 2003 at 3:27 PM
Hi Uli, nothing special when I use any other viewer or graphic program. The png's are quite alright. By the way, I haven't changed anything at my system.
igohigh posted Fri, 09 May 2003 at 5:01 PM
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PabloS posted Fri, 09 May 2003 at 5:34 PM
. me too
uli_k posted Fri, 09 May 2003 at 6:00 PM
Demon, what version of Poser 5 are you running, English or German?
iamonk posted Fri, 09 May 2003 at 8:08 PM
Do the PNGs still have their alpha channel?
I haven't had the chance to install SR3 yet, also waiting to see what happens when you do.
Anywhoo, this is nothing new to P5. It's been doing this to my library thumbs since I installed it.
caulbox posted Sat, 10 May 2003 at 4:34 PM
I haven't installed SR3 yet, but on very rare occasions I experience downloaded PNGs which don't show (often seem to be 24bit cols - not the usual 32bit) Best solution I've found is to use P3d0 Explorer to convert them all into RSRs, and then let Poser 5 reconvert them back to PNGs automatically when the folder is next opened.
uli_k posted Sun, 11 May 2003 at 1:08 PM
Demon, iamonk, can you post your system specs? I wonder if you're having something in common.
iamonk posted Sun, 11 May 2003 at 3:45 PM
2600+ Athalon Thoroughbred 333FSB
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (NVIDIA chipset)
1.5GB PC3200 DDR400
slightly overclocked/water-cooled
Windows XP professional
It seems like P5 tampers with the PNG, at one point the icons would show, but they become blank squares with that oval in the center.
I open them in PSP7 and check for an alpha channel, but there isn't one.
It is always a PNG with the entire background filled.
I just give it some transparency and it works fine.
Demon posted Mon, 12 May 2003 at 2:58 PM
Sorry folks, I'm a little late, but poser is only a hobby for me. I'm runnig the english version of poser 5 on a 2200+ Athlon with 2GB RAM DDR with XP Pro, so I think it has nothing to do with the gui, what I first expected. I checked the library and realised that only some of the customized pngs were corrupted.(I've got a lot of them after playing around for 3 years now!) Seems to be that SR3 doesn't tolerate png's with a special size and without transparency! I tried that '3PO-thing' and it worked. Afterwards I have converted the files with only one pixel transparency and now here we are again: it works !(Also double sized pngs) Thank you folks !