anxcon opened this issue on Mar 19, 2005 ยท 32 posts
anxcon posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 10:16 AM
you create a scene and everything in poser then when its all complete and you render your picture, you save the project and put someone on your computer in an "archive" thinking you'll come back to it or something someday :) so you end up with many archived poser projects
SamTherapy posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 10:28 AM
Yep. I've done that right from when I first started using Poser.
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JenX posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 10:28 AM
meekly raises hand I can't tell you how many freebie projects I've started and saved.....and never went back to finish, LOL. One day, I'll focus, LOL.
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randym77 posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 10:33 AM
I'm worse. I not only save the Poser file, I usually end up saving several previous versions. Sometimes dozens. Just in case I decide I want to go back to a previous version. I really should delete them, but by the time I get around to it, I've forgotten which one was the "good" one. So I keep them all. :-P
geep posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 10:37 AM
The solution is easy:
Format C:> Y/N <-----* Note (see Important Note below)
Just kidding ... DO NOT try this on your home computer.
o Basic
o Fortran
o Algol
o HTML
o Binary
o Octal
o Hexadecimal
o Sexadecimal
o French
o Italian
o Hebrew
o Sanskrit
There are prolly a few that I missed but these are the essential ones.
cheers, dr geep ;=]
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
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randym77 posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 10:40 AM
Wouldn't help. They're all on the M: drive. :-) The scary thing is, it's a 265 Gb drive, and it's getting full. =:-O
geep posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 11:00 AM
At the risk of being (almost) repetatively redundant ... ...The solution is easy: Format M:> Y/N ;=] WARNING WARNING WARNING See the "Important Note" above in Post #5.
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
cheers,
dr geep ... :o]
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anxcon posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 11:41 AM
lol, doc all of mine are on cds, cant format a cd :) i have usually 1 cd per project, save between 5-10 versions as i progress (rare but sometimes up to 20) never overwriting, just saving new save files i start around 20 projects a week the guys who make stargate (scifi show) have cd wallpaper, and cd coasters, and much more, im not far off lol
anxcon posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 11:44 AM
o and thats just project files cant forget about all the morphs, mats, poses, props, characters, lights, cameras, and more and i wonder why i cant pay my rent.....
weirdass posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 12:12 PM
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BastBlack posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 12:39 PM
I do the same thing as randym77. Every project, several versions, then forget about it, only to go back later and can't remember which pz3 is the "good" one. But I have good news, a zipped PZ3 is lot smaller in file size, so even if you are a pack rat like me, at least you can free up some disk space by zipping the projects. I haven't had any problems unzipping and reusing formly zipped pz3s. bB
randym77 posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 12:52 PM
Thanks, that's a great tip! I'd gotten out of the habit of zipping files, since most large files these days are already compressed and don't seem to get much smaller when zipped (movie files, JPGs, etc.). Never thought to try it on Poser. Might help my organizing, too. I can just zip up all the different versions together. :-)
ockham posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 1:16 PM
PZ3's are hugely wasteful and repetitive in normal form, which means they compress extremely small. Since long before Poser, I've made a habit of ZIPping up the current project each day; couldn't work without it. One nice shortcut is to keep a custom ZIPIT.BAT file in each main folder, with the commands for this particular project. Something like this, using WinRAR: del *.bak rar a dumbproject.rar *.pz3 *.obj *.jpg copy dumbproject.rar a:
SamTherapy posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 1:20 PM
I write mine to DVD-R on a fairly regular basis. Occasionally I'll dust one off and work on it again. A lot of my earlier gallery images will be reworked in time.
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Byrdie posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 2:17 PM
I've got way too many (must be the packrat genes) and can't believe I plain forgot I could zip the darn things like any other file. Thanks for the reminder, now I'll probably only need about half as many discs to put 'em all on.
Kristta posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 2:31 PM
o Basic o Fortran o Algol o HTML o Binary o Octal o Hexadecimal o Sexadecimal o French o Italian o Hebrew o Sanskrit Dr. Geep......you left out a few..... Pascal Cobol ASCII conversion C C++ LISP (or AutoLISP) Latin and Greek! Kristta
geep posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 2:34 PM
Oops, sorry. ;=[ Thanks Kristta fer fillin' in da "blanks." ;=]
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
cheers,
dr geep ... :o]
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Byrdie posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 2:37 PM
You also forgot: Klingonese Romulan Vulcan (Old and Modern) Noldor Sindarin and Parseltongue! Oops, I almost left out NSGS -- Nay Say Guy Speek!!! ;-)
pakled posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 3:16 PM
True story- about 10 years or so ago, a trade show was showing off one of the rudimentary speech to text command driven package. Among the crowd, someone yelled out 'Format C: !', followed shortly by someone else yelling 'Yes!'..the commands worked just fine..;)
I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit
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Acadia posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 3:50 PM
I'm new to Poser but found myself making a folder for each thing I was working on, and saved my files in it as I worked. I did that for each project I started. I found it ate up too much disk space so I went and deleted them all. Now I don't bother. I save files until I'm done with what I'm working on, and then delete them. I don't like clutter on my computer and tend to go through the hard drive on a weekly basis to get rid of stuff that I am not using.
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Byrdie posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 4:12 PM
::snerk:: Then maybe they ought start calling it the Red House. ;-) Or do you mean some other kind of sleaze?
Kristta posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 4:30 PM
No problem Dr. Just had to glance over at my bookcase of knowledge and get a few that I noticed weren't there. Fortran...so many have no idea what that is. I liked that one. Kristta
geep posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 4:39 PM
Yup, I plan to still use it (Fortran) ...
(BTW - was that For-tran =or= Fort-ran?) ;=]
............... if I ever get bored with Poser.
WHAT ??? ........ POSER6 IS SHIPPING ON MONDAY !!!
I guess Fortran will just have to wait ...
(heh heh)
;=]
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
cheers,
dr geep ... :o]
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Kristta posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 5:39 PM
I burned out on programming. Quit the job I had and went into computer aided drafting. Lost that job (darned budget cuts). I love playing with Poser but the most programming I do is debugging my hubby's stuff and it's in VB. Kristta
geep posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 5:54 PM
VB ? ........... is that Vicki version "B"? Just curious. ;=]
Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"
cheers,
dr geep ... :o]
edited 10/5/2019
randym77 posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 6:18 PM
True story- about 10 years or so ago, a trade show was showing off one of the rudimentary speech to text command driven package. Among the crowd, someone yelled out 'Format C: !', followed shortly by someone else yelling 'Yes!'..the commands worked just fine..;)
ROFLMAO!
Man, that's a real hazard with text commands. At least until they develop Star Trek-like computers that can recognize their owner's voices and ignore all the rest.
Kristta posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 6:30 PM
VB.......Visual Basic. Some days, it seems like Vicki Basic...or Very Boring....
SamTherapy posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 6:52 PM
pakled - I remember reading about that in a trade magazine when I worked in IT Support. Yep folks, it really did happen.
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JVRenderer posted Sat, 19 March 2005 at 11:14 PM
raises hands... Now all the archived pz3's are on a stack of dvd-r's Thank god for dvd burners
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n3k0 posted Sun, 20 March 2005 at 2:23 AM
Ayup, I've got some unfinished projects, too. I think I've got some that are 2-3 years old. And there's still some ideas for projects that I haven't started yet. Sometimes something becomes available (freebie or store product) that inspires me to finish a project. I copied my poser files to another computer 3 weeks ago when I re-installed XP on my game/poser computer. Eventually I'll do a backup on DVD's.
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Kristta posted Mon, 21 March 2005 at 9:21 AM
OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH I would love to have one of those. he he he I wonder what all you can shred with one of those! Kristta