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Subject: VSS loading error - anyone seen/fixed this before?
Never mind, I fixed it. It requires a new second line in vssui.py to declare the text encoding:-
-- coding: utf-8 --
Mod. - thread could be deleted, unless it's possible anyone else is still using VSS and gets the same problem. Your call. :)
Izi
"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of
what I should be."
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Thanks markschum. Armed with that knowledge, I looked at the vssui.py file again, and spotted that three full stops in the text of one menu item had been auto-"corrected" to a single '...' character. That was the culprit.
Am I correct in imagining that bagginsbill is no longer supporting VSS/Matmatic/Parmatic? I've been away such a long time...
Izi
"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of
what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki
Murakami)
I'm around but not playing with Poser much. I'm willing to support matmatic and VSS (within limits). I did not encounter the problem you already solved, though. I have to think your copy was edited. I don't put non-ASCII in my .py files.
As for the magic number, as each version of Poser uses a newer version of Python, you have to go get a newer matmatic. (And I have to make newer ones.)
Did you get a fresher matmatic binary? (Last addition was for P9/PP2012)
https://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/free-stuff/matmatic
Is P10/PP2014 yet another bump on magic number? I haven't bothered to run matmatic on my PP2014 yet.
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Hi bb, and thanks. Good to know you're still around.
Yes, my vssui.py was edited - I have my own submenu in there for VSS, Parmatic and a couple of other utilities.
I haven't upgraded - I'm still using Poser Pro 2012. But I think the last time I used Matmatic must have been with Poser Pro 2010. I'll get a fresh binary and report back later.
Izi
"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of
what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki
Murakami)
Cool. What are you making with it? I always imagined a healthy exchange of functions which is so easy as text, but nobody ever talks about it.
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Has any VSS user / Python guru seen this error, and do you know how to fix it, please?I have transferred my VSS scripts from my old computer (Mac OS X 10.5) to my new computer (Mac OS X 10.8). It works fine on the old computer, but on the new one, when I press the button to load the VSS scripts menu, I get this error.
I've checked in vssui.py, and there is no such character string as xc9 (or the character it represents).
I also get another error when trying to load my Matmatic script - that one is something to do with an 'incorrect magic number'. I'll cross that bridge later...
Thanks
Izi
"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)