OtakuShark opened this issue on Nov 21, 2001 ยท 6 posts
OtakuShark posted Wed, 21 November 2001 at 12:30 PM
What kinds of things cause me to get the "shrugging man" icon instead of a proper thumbnail when saving a face pose or prop to the library? It seems to happen about half the time, and with all kinds of files...
VirtualSite posted Wed, 21 November 2001 at 2:38 PM
Did you make sure the prop was selected before saving it? I know that sounds silly, but its tripped me up more often than not.
lourdes posted Wed, 21 November 2001 at 8:58 PM
Do you use Propack? I get that a lot with Poser Propack. If so, what I do instead is render a small image 93x93 and save it to the directory as a .png file with the same name as the file. If you're not using Propack, then sorry... Lourdes
OtakuShark posted Thu, 22 November 2001 at 11:13 AM
Yep, I'm using the Pro Pack. The issue doesn't seem to be related to whether the item is selected or not, and it always stores the geometry info--it just fails to make the .PNG file. I started rendering them myself as you suggested--it's nice to see the thumbnails with hair now. ^_^
Starlok posted Sun, 25 November 2001 at 1:30 AM
I (a non-ProPack user) had similar problems with straight Poser4. Only I got a blank thumbnail rather than "Shrugman" It turned out to be an incompatibility with my graphics card! New graphix card=real thumbnails... Have you changed cards? If you have an old one you upgraded from, maybe you might try swapping it out for a test?
OtakuShark posted Sun, 25 November 2001 at 11:27 AM
I'm using a GeForce 2 GTS, which has been around awhile. Poser Pro Pack has done this periodically ever since I installed it. I may look into getting the newest video drivers, though. In any case, I'm finding that I like the better quality and control I have when creating the thumbnails as renders anyway--the workaround turned out to be an improvement over the original method. ^_^