Does anyone know of a utility that will extract the thumbnail pics from Bryce *.obp & *.mat files so I can organize large collections of these files? I have gazillions of obp's & mat's and am trying to keep track of them in the only way I currently can, with a handwritten list of many many pages. Any help will be appreciated. Please don't tell me to go to wolfiesden.com. The thumbnailer misleadingly advertised at wolfiesden.com has been "temporarily offline" since Sept. '99 and wolfie evidently has absolutely no intention of ever making it available again - many emails and renderosity member messages to him over a period of several months - even offering to pay for a copy - have had only absolute silence as a response.

Sounds like a great utility to have, Lord knows it'd make my life alot easier. What you can do is downlaod ACDSee(www.acdsee.com) or Thumbs Plus(www.cerious.com-I think) they are both image veiwers and shareware that can take a directory of images and make contact sheets in html for you or even a thumbnail image. I use SnapShot32(dont know url) to take a snapshot of the display window, then hit F11 to repeat last capture and just do it manually. Ken

Hi Ken, thanx for the advice. I already have thumbs plus but to use that you have to load and render each obp and each mat to make a pic to thumbnail. Since I have several gigabytes of obp & mat files, it would take me months. According to wolfie's site, his program, if he ever made it available, would go thru a folder and directly read each obp or mat, extract the thumbnails & make an html file with all of them. I was hoping someone else had built something to do the same thing since wolfie's program apparently won't be available again in the foreseeable future.

You might want to take a look at Wolfie's Thumbnailer/Auto Gallery Beta program at http://www.wolfiesden.com under Downloads (at the bottom of the page). It's for Bryce 4 and it's offline right now while he works on the setup program but it might be what you are looking for. Jade

Jade, thanx for your advice, but READ paragraph 2 of my original message. I'm frustrated because the thumbnailer at wolfies has been "temporarily" offline for over a year and wolfie NEVER responds to my messages. Just for the record, tho - wolfie's Bryce Librarian is a GREAT program and a real life-saver and without it I would have long ago lost what few shreds of sanity I have left. Anybody who uses Bryce should have it. I just wish wolfie wasn't so totally unresponsive on the thumbnailer. I mean he could at least have sent back a 1 line email saying "sorry, but I'm not going to work on that any more" rather than just ignoring message after message after message after message.

Sorry, I only joined the Forum and must have missed your initial post about the thumbnailer. I was just trying to be helpful. Well, if Wolfie is no longer into developing it, let's hope another programmer or Corel perhaps read these messages and say "Here's a utility people could use". I personally would be willing to pay for such a utility. It would make things a lot easier when it comes to organizing presets in Bryce. Jade