Is there any way a mac bum file can be converted to work in windows?

The file doesn`t even work in a picture viewer at present.

as far as i know - mac and pc files are totally interchangeable using p5 and p6. my mac and pc are networked together and i own mac and pc versions of poser 6. i can use my mac runtime from my pc via my ethernet cable (is slow to load though) love esther

change the extension to BMP and you can open it in a picture viewer. But to use it as a BUM in Poser > 4, the extension needs to be BUM. Poser 4 uses only BUM (green) data but can read it from any file format it an read (JPEG, GIF, etc)

They don`t load as a screen, even when changing the etension to BMP.

The BUM files are from the figure loony d klown if anyone has any more information?

If it really is a Mac BUM file (How do you know that?), open it and another BUM you know works in WordPad.  Try removing the extra stuff at the beginning, and possibly end, of the file.  It may work after that.  Work on a COPY.  I've had to do this with other supposedly universal files, though they weren't Poser.

John

I have those files, xan. I'll see if I can convert 'em. they were for p4 IIRC. AFAIK it's only possible to convert 'em using Mac OS (graphicconverter).

Miss nancy, I guessed you might have the files. :biggrin:

If you could convert them and send them to me that would be great.  (it says in the readme that it is ok to redistribute the files).

Beyondvr, I know that they are mac files for 2 reasons, one is I am not new to computing and the other is that the readme says they are mac files (I worked out that they were mac files before reading the readme).

Gotcha :)  Still wondering if it's just some added garbage in the header, and it they would be fixable.  The actual data should be identical, I think.

John