Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Strange look of thumbnail in Poser Pro Pack

oliveramberg opened this issue on Apr 25, 2005 ยท 8 posts

oliveramberg posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 11:30 AM

I've set up my new PC and copied my Poser4-Folder onto the new machine (which I did before with another machine). Now a strange things happens to some thumbnails in the preview. When I check the files with the P3dO Explorer, everything looks finde. Any idea?

oliveramberg posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 11:31 AM

That how it looks with P3dO Explorer...

oliveramberg posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 11:31 AM

And here another strange one...

layingback posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 3:47 PM

Happens when the .png is made by something that isn't 100% compatible with Poser (or at least Poser on Windows). First off, check the library folder where the .png file is stored in Windows Explorer or similar: - if there is a .rsr of the same name, then simple delete, or for extra safety rename, the .png file when PP is NOT running, then restart PP and go to that library folder. Poser will recreate the .png from the .rsr and the new one should be 100% compatible with Poser (obviousl ;-) - if there is no .rsr file of the same name, then first run P3dO's RSR/PNG plugin on that folder to create an .rsr from the .png. Then continue as described above. All in all a pain, but be thankful that it's at least readable in P3dO - 'cos just sometimes they are not, then you are down to fixing it in Photoshop by hand...

oliveramberg posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 3:59 PM

Thanks a lot for your advice. I did this with P3dO and it worked! Cheers Oliver

philebus posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 4:02 PM

I think that Poser is somewhat fussy about how its png's are saved. I had this problem when creating thumbs in PSP, I saved them out as png's and got the strange transparency. I don't know anything about Photoshop or Illustrator but I do now have the old Fireworks MX and succeeded in saving correctly there. It seems that there are some extra settings you can use to save your png, I set mine to 'png 8' and 'no transparency'. I don't know what this means, I got through trial and error.

layingback posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 4:20 PM

Yep, Poser's .psd and .png file format readers are kinda old, so they are intolerant of the newer (last decade's? ;-) format enhancements. For .psd used in P5 and P6 UI folder you HAVE to use Photoshop to save them, nothing else seems to be able to save things "the way they used to" :-)

Helgard posted Mon, 25 April 2005 at 6:39 PM

Ooops, wrong, lol, don't save as 32 bit, save as 24 bit. But Yarp is working on an expansion for P3DO that will correct this problem. Coming in the next version of P3DO.


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