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Subject: What is a p2z file?

moushie opened this issue on Aug 09, 2013 · 6 posts

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moushie ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2013 at 4:58 PM · edited Sun, 01 December 2024 at 12:58 PM

Pardon my ignorance, but I'm only familiar with pz2 files. So what's a p2z, and can I use it in Poser 4?

Medzinatar ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2013 at 5:09 PM

it's a pose file that has been compressed with gzip.

I don't recall if P4 can read them (it's been 10 years since I have used that version)

The modern versions of Poser have a utility to decompress.

You can manually extract file and give it extension of pz2

TrekkieGrrrl ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2013 at 6:27 PM

PoserPro (the original Poser 4 Pro that is) and onwards reads them. Not sure about Vanilla Poser 4.

No need to decompress unless you want to poke around inside the file. Poser reads them just fine :)

moushie ( ) posted Fri, 09 August 2013 at 6:30 PM

Answers my question perfectly. I'll unzip, rename, install piecemeal. Many thanks indeed.

PhilC ( ) posted Sat, 10 August 2013 at 3:49 AM

Poser has a utility that will batch uncompress them for you. Go to Scripts > Utility > uncompressPoserFiles.

moushie ( ) posted Sat, 10 August 2013 at 10:34 AM

Thanks, Phil. Noted.