bromyaur opened this issue on Feb 25, 2001 ยท 5 posts
bromyaur posted Sun, 25 February 2001 at 2:41 PM
I just bought a couple of Zygote animals, Buck, Camel. When I try to open them I get 'cannot open resource file buck obj etc..." then the next window that pops up is "you are out of memory, save your work and quit soon. You may also have allocate more memory to Poser" I have an extensive libray of characters and animals and they all seem to open with no problem, I believe I have also seen this with one or two more animals also. What I dont understand is that some of my other characters and animals appear to be more complex than the ones I am having problems with.I have also ctrl-alt-del and shut down almost everything to free up resources. Is it possible that some of the geometry file, obj's, textures have not installed into the proper directorys? Or any other ideas? I have a p2 400 with 128 megs of ram. 8.4 gig hd with 3 megs free and am running Poser 4. This problem seems to manifest with the Zygote animals only, I have several Zygote characters and people, and all work great. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
RPS posted Sun, 25 February 2001 at 2:53 PM
If it is a very recent purchase from Zygote, the zipped files they give are now put into a directory C:Curious Labs - instead of the previous directory C:Program FilesMetacreationsPoser 4, etc so you have to move them by "hand" as it were. You are unlikely to be "out of memory", this is a "wrong" message. I usually find that this is because I have not got the object files into the right place and/or because the directory is not spelled correctly - it is case sensitive.
P.Winberg posted Sun, 25 February 2001 at 3:45 PM
http://www.jfitz.com/software/RAMpage/index.html this is a handy little freeware tool to free up memory...maybe it doesn't pertain to this but thought I would offer the link as I have found it most useful when using some programs. justpat
timoteo1 posted Mon, 26 February 2001 at 3:49 PM
RPS/bromyaur : With ALL of Zygotes .EXE installers you can choose where EXACTLY your POSER4 directory is located. So if you put in (or browse to) the right directory it should be putting the OBJ in the right place. This definetely sounds like a misplaced OBJ error. One way you can check is to open the figure file in a text editor (like notepad or wordpad) and one of the first lines indicated exactly where it expects to find the OBJ.) -Tim
bromyaur posted Thu, 01 March 2001 at 6:19 AM
Thanks all for suggestions. Got it figured out. Turned out to be a couple things a) some were misplaced obj's, b) others were I had to create the folder "buck" in the geometry file and then place the files manually. Weird some zygote exe's will automatically create the folder while others wont.