Rena, I followed your instructions in a previous thread and was able to edit a cr2 file of a posable dress to make it conforming. As for the renaming of the file, I didn't do it through DOS mode but just renamed! Is it supposed to be so easy? Apparently it works though. I've converted the chiton and this evening gown so far. Poserworld is just full of poseable clothes that I didn't use since I was afraid of cr2 editing. Thanks Rena for making it so simple. BTW, what should we use as a cr2 for men's clothes? There is nothing like the catsuit for men.

I have to find that post in archives. I was not very happy about having to edit the cr2 at that point so didn't save it. Then--Steve and others convinced me that it wasn't hard--esp. to remap models. I tried it and found editing was easy as pie and now don't have this great info from Rena. Hope I can find it. One question--did this dress have a split in the skirt originally and the very low armhole, or does it just need a little tweaking in scale? Not sure cause I'm not sure of the dress-whether I have it or not. Thanks for the good info. Diane B

I missed a mthod of making poable into conformable somewhere... can anyone re-post the URL? This is an invaluable procedure. And Jon, I think that is one of the most elligant dresses I've seen in a long time. Share? Please??? I promise not to talk to you in public if we ever meet! (for some reason my wife thinks that's the nicest thing i can do for people.)

Ikyoto, I just found it by going back in the archive, but just saved the info, so don't have the URL--its about 3 groups back in archive--'Fooling around on a Saturday Night' by Rena. Ahh, its still in my 'paste' so here 'tis. Rena says: "CR2 editing to make an item conform is pretty easy and quite simple! I was taught by steve shanks how to acomplish it when poser4 was released... You select a conforming cr2 (preferably the catsuit since it covers most parts of the body) and within a text editor you replace the first line to point to your new obj and its location. Contact a search on the cr2 since the same line is repeated twice in the document. Replace once more and save at plain text format under a new name. Through DOS mode rename the extention of the txt file to cr2, then load to poser and that's it! Enjoy a new conforming dress! Save the preset once more under the same name to have a nice preview of the preset! Enjoy and play with all P3 old freebies! :o)" BTW, Jon, looking again, I realized that the split and low sides are correct--and lovely. Whose dress is this--share, please??? S (as Ik.... says) Diane B

Diane... i love you.

Jon I think the best substitute for the "catsuit" would be the Tuxedo - that covers pretty much everything like the "catsuit" does. Paul

Guys of course I'll share (since it's not even mine LOL I only wish I could make a dress like this) the dress is Steve's from Poserworld!!!. Diane if you got the CD it's on there as well as evepsbl I think. I did absolutely nothing and in fact just quickly posed it. The split is great and lends itself to many poses Ikyoto ;) THE BACK OF THE DRESS IS EVEN BETTER!!!! Also steve answered a few threads below on this page or maybe next about posable to conforming. Now, I'll be busy doing the rest. Thanks for the tip Paul, I'll try it and keep you posted.

I think I'll have to get a short tutorial up on Poserworld on how to do this :o) I think Rena needed to do it in dos because she has a dual language PC....and yep Pauls right the tuxedo is a great one for the guys.......Steve

Steve, anything you can put up tutorial-wise about editing the cr2's would be very helpful. I saved your comments about editing the cr2 in reference to remapping and it was a lifesaver. However, for others, it will have slipped away into the archives and the question will have to be asked again and again. You were right about editing--once I was into the file, it was easy to see what needed done and how to do it, but its 'scary' until you do it. Diane B

I'll get one up this weekend Diane :o)I've been meaning to do it for ages but I'm hopelessly in orginised LOL.........Steve

Well, I did the editing and actually used the dress from Poserworld... When I conformed it the dress angled forward and wouldn't line up. The other one I tried? The 40's outfit from same site. That one wouldn't open the obj file... Any hints?

Which cr2 did you edit? for the first and the second it'll be a spelling error or punctuation ....not that I'm knocking your spelling LOL but I get that all the time by putting instead of : or putting :obj instead of .obj.......can you send the first cr2 so I can have a look............Steve

I'll email it to you later. I'm at the office screwing around and it's time to go.

Hello everybody! Pretty long thread and I just discovered it! LOL! Steve it has nothing to do with me being on a dual language PC..Jon is on a very same too! :o) I guess it has to do mostly with the fact that the very fist time I edited a cr2 in Word I forgot to uncheck the associate with this program checkbox and eversince I have light blue "W"s in my libraries. :o) The only suggestion I would add here IKYOTO is not to use the catsuit in all cases but try to choose the cr2 of the item that comes closer to the posable one you want to make conformable. :o) renapd

All you people talking about editing the CR2's .. Grumbles Wish I could try it one of these days but I can't since there is no Mac editor that I know about ... that and you guys get good video games too ..

Poser has taken all my time from games. Ok, that and all the neat free stuff on the internet..... most of it related to Poser of some other 3D stuff.... i don't have a problem, i don't have a problem...

Rena, you are quite correct in saying to use the cr2 clothing matches the closest. When I make my combined figures, I use the cr2 info for, say the shirt, from one of the shirt cr2 files, and the pants from a pants cr2 file, and so on. They closer match the pre-cr2-settings. I'll be writing up a tutorial that is a combo of using Compose and Mason's Combined figure tutoroial. If you want good info on cr2 stuff, read Mason's tutorial. it covers quite a bit regarding the cr2.

Ghostofmacbeth- You can edit CR2's on MAC OS, you just need a text editor that will open "any file" in its' text form. I have used "BBEdit Lite 4.0" (freeware) and it works great. You just need to re-save under a new name and make sure that the "creator" type is pozer by using ResEdit or run the file over the applescript converters to change the creator info to Pozer. I havn't tried this on P4 files but it works on P3 CR2's. Not sure if Martins App does this, I use the older ones by Hulbert (Poser3 PC-Mac Converters).

willf .. Thanks .. I will go look and see if I can find that and maybe figure out where all these CR2 editing post are again ...Thanks again