Detailer Text is one of Poser 5's import and export options. The manual, not surprisingly, doesn't explain what it is. A google search pointed to Poser rather than to a file format. I did find out that it was dropped from Poser 7, which bothered one poster in the CP forum.

Does anybody know what this format is?

The file extension is VTX if that helps any......

There's a couple of possible definitions at this site.

Quote - Detailer Text is one of Poser 5's import and export options. The manual, not surprisingly, doesn't explain what it is. A google search pointed to Poser rather than to a file format. I did find out that it was dropped from Poser 7, which bothered one poster in the CP forum.

Does anybody know what this format is?

it was for the older Fractal Design Detailer paint program -  an early attempt at Bodypaint and the like.... the programs long long dead, tho some users round here still have a copy....

Quote - > Quote - Detailer Text is one of Poser 5's import and export options. The manual, not surprisingly, doesn't explain what it is. A google search pointed to Poser rather than to a file format. I did find out that it was dropped from Poser 7, which bothered one poster in the CP forum.

Does anybody know what this format is?

it was for the older Fractal Design Detailer paint program -  an early attempt at Bodypaint and the like.... the programs long long dead, tho some users round here still have a copy....

Raises and waves hands!

From Poser and the old Ray Dream Studio programs.

Wow. I still have box copies of those programs that I bought way back through a liquidation online auction, but never had the time to use them. That explains why there's not much info on the format and why it was included--the same company made both products. There's not much info on the products because they've been dead for a long time (though, didn't Ray Dream eventually become Cararra?). Every other import/export option is a well-known format, so Detailer was something of a mystery.

I bought it when it first came out - back in the mid nineties IIRC.

It was, to be generous, a major disappointment.

I used Painter3d for quite some time...it is hard to get running these days as there is a missing file that you need to add to the folders, which unfortunatly I never saved from 2 computers ago.  Still have the software though, and I thought that it was great, not a body paint or anything but  good piece of software for when it was new.

Wow... I still have that app, though I don't think it's been installed on anything here for about 8 years, at least. It was a really nice program back in the day; one I've always hated to see go away because I always liked the idea of the Painter interface for a 3d paint app. Ah well... -Les

the idea was a good one... but you needed a serious powerful machine to run it... at the time not many had that kind of money...

by the time we did have machines that could run it well, the great metacreations feckup had happened and the program had been sold off and effectively killed..

if I remember rightly, you've got to jump through a lot of hoops to get it running.. like emulating windows 95 etc...