xoconostle opened this issue on Oct 21, 2003 ยท 12 posts
xoconostle posted Tue, 21 October 2003 at 4:51 PM
I'm working on a freebie package for the M3 Body Suit. It'll consist of .jpg textures and MAT files for applying them. When I'm ready to upload it, I'd like to accurately note what platforms it'd work on. Does the Mac version of Poser read the same type of MAT files that PC Poser does? Is there some difference in the directory structure I should be aware of? I'm not sure what determines the difference as regards platform compatability. Any guidance from those who know would be appreciated.
PhilC posted Tue, 21 October 2003 at 5:02 PM
As far as I know unless you supply your work as an EXE file then there is no problem with defining it as dual platform. Mac users will just use the Mac converter & installer utilities available in the freestuff.
estherau posted Tue, 21 October 2003 at 6:04 PM
yes, there's a difference. you need to keep your texture names less than 20 characters including the letters .jpg or the mat files won't find the textures and poser will hang. love esther
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geoegress posted Tue, 21 October 2003 at 6:17 PM
also the texture referances in the mats you have to replace the (/) backslash with the (:)colon
Barzoff posted Tue, 21 October 2003 at 6:33 PM
I'm a mac user, and I never had problem using the "PC Only" stuff. I just have to convert them with the MacConverter utility, and everything works fine. BTW, the texture names need to have less than 31 characters including .jpg, not 20. Regards
xoconostle posted Tue, 21 October 2003 at 7:08 PM
Wow, thank you, everyone, for your very helpful responses. I wasn't aware of the filename restriction, but that's no problem. Several people here have helped me out with various issues in the past few weeks. I really appreciate it ... community at its best.
Spanki posted Wed, 22 October 2003 at 3:48 AM
X, just to clarify on the pathnaming issue a bit... Inside your MAT files, where the texture files are referenced, if you see anything like: "c:Program FilesPoserRuntimetexturesxocstufffilename.jpg" ...you should replace them with the following style, relative to the Poser directory (strip off the first part of the path up to Runtime) and using colons instead of slashes... ":Runtime:textures:xocstuff:filename.jpg" Cheers, - Keith
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Barzoff posted Wed, 22 October 2003 at 9:03 AM
Good point from Spanki, here. I had this kind of issue several times in the past. All I had to do in those cases was to open the cr2, hr2 or pp2 in BBEdit and changed the lines "c:Program Files:Poser:etc..." to "Runtime:textures:etc...", as Spanki wrote above. Well, as you can see, no major problem, anyway...:-) Regards
xoconostle posted Wed, 22 October 2003 at 10:45 AM
This is great info, thanks again, all! I'm saving this thread for future reference.
ivyroses posted Wed, 22 October 2003 at 11:04 AM
People also set their content as PC only because they cannot offer MAC support incase something does go wrong.
NightFlyer posted Wed, 22 October 2003 at 11:55 AM
I use the excellent Merchant Utility by laetia in free stuff to check for MAC compatability
Barzoff posted Wed, 22 October 2003 at 12:09 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot that! Go to the Macintosh forum in the Topic Forums, and clic on the "Mac Compatibility FAQ" link. You'll find there some very useful infos. Thanks, NightFlyer. Regards