I found a tutorial for this on the tutorials section, and i followed the instructions compleatly, but when i edited the CR2 file and came to save it, my text editor would only save it as a wordpad file not as a cr2 file. I remembered to put the .cr2 at the end of the file name but it just saved it as a wordpad file, i've also tried it in notepad but it just saves it as a text document, HELP? Claire x

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same thing happened to me so I took a pz2 file made a copy and deleted everything and then pasted the new stuff didnt work though... and you need to save it as pz2 not cr2.. however go get the mat-pose -edit at http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Topsectionid=1&Sectionid=6 really nifty little program made it very easy to make the Mat file only thing I still have a problem with is to make the thumbnail in the library for some reason it doesnt generate the rsr-file ...

Usually all I do, is open it in notepad, do my editing, then go to close, hit the X and it says do you want to save, I say yes, but I don't choose how to save it, it just automatically saves it as a cr2, cause I opened a cr2. Sharen

Excellent got it up and running, i'll let you know if i have any probs!! Thanxs Claire x

It works oh joy thanxs so much for that DragonLady

Can you just go into Windows Explorer and rename the extension to cr2? See if that works. Melanie

Enclosing the file name in quotes sometimes force it to save correctly. Just type in "figure.cr2"

I found that if your going to use Notepad or Wordpad for the editing make sure that when saving you choose the option 'All files' in the save as type box.

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the text editor often messes up the files on save. Mine worked fine for months and then suddenly decided not to save correctly get the programmers editor - it's free too.

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I use it after the MAT pose Editor when I want to trim down the file sizes.

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can anybody please tell me how to get the thumbnails for the matfiles??? Ive made a 91*91 pict inverted alphachannel used rsr-converter to load pict locate rsr file to replace click ok the thumbnail show up but then when I use the mat file the bodytexture changes to something that looks like a lizzard texture??? I canfigure out what Im doing wrong.. please help

that never worked for me (inverting the mask) I make my image savea s a tiff file, change size to 91 x 91 and save as apct file and then convert with rsrconvertor - works everytime. You have to make the MAT poses and then convert the images to the rsr making sure to use teh exact same name as your mat pose

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Dragonlady, If you're getting a body texture you don't intend, it's not coming from the MAT thumbnail. The thumbnail will never effect the outcome of applying the MAT to the model. It's only a picture representation of what's in the pz2 file. So there must something wrong in the .pz2 file. Also, I regularly edit the .pz2 and .cr2 files in Notepad or Wordpad when it's too big for Notepad. The saving works likes this: If you're doing a "Save As" yourfilename.pz2 (or .cr2) it will append the .txt to it (or .doc if in Wordpad and that's the type selected); leaving you with "yourfilename.pz2.txt". The thing to do is to located the file in your file folder, select it, hit F2 (or right click and select Rename) and then put the cursor at the end of the filename and backspace the .txt out. Hit enter and the filename will now be "yourfilename.pz2". It'll say changing the extension can be bad, blah blah - it's fine because we want this extension - hit ok. If you open an existing .pz2 or .cr2 (or whatever) in Notepad or Wordpad and you make an edit but don't intend to change it's name then just hitting "Save" after you make the change should leave the extension as it was. So it's really only the "Save As" that forces the text format extension on to the file and as I've said that's fine cause you can rename the file to not have the extra .txt or .doc. I do like MAT Pose Edit but I find it saves pz2s slightly larger and are formatted less nicely when editing by hand is required. So I use it usually only as a translator of RGB color values to Poser's color value protocol. WHEW! : ) Good luck!

I need images for my MAT files, so where do i get this rsr converter from then?

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Of course, in my opinion, the best (and easiest) way to create a MAT Pose is to use the MAT Pose Applier program. You don't have to fool around with manually editting cr2 files (the figures' "material defintions" come with the program) and you can create MAT Poses for just 1 or 2 materials (such as only the eyes or fingernails). And I'm not just saying this because I made the program. :) --John

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RSR converter is in Free Stuff.

I dunno 3ddave I get my MATs all scrambled in notepad when I use just the save function to edit an existing MAT file I created.

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I dunno 3ddave I get my MATs all scrambled in notepad when I use just the save function to edit an existing MAT file I created.

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For editing poser files, you can use Metapad, which is small, no install and free... http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/

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Mat Pose Applier here in the Marketplace is the easiest to use. Quick, simple, effective.

LadySilverMage, The operative phrase in your post is "an existing MAT I created." What did you create the MAT in? If you wrote them in a text editor they should be fine. But I suspect it wasn't a text editor and whatever you created them in may encode your files in such a way that when you open them an ascii editor like Notepad, you see things run on and unformatted. If it was a MAT maker program of some kind then that's likely what's happening. The format it's saving the .pz2s as may not be ascii or at least not the same ascii format as a regular ole text editor. However, when I said "existing MATs" I meant one's that come from DAZ for instance or that have been created from scratch in a text editor. They seem to come into Notepad (if not too big for it) fine and save fine. I've made MATs in MAT Pose Edit and then opened them manually in Notepad to make a change and the file's got little black boxes and is all unformatted so as I said before, I use it mostly as a color reference getter.

I'm still looking for a way to make a MAT of different parts of the body(shin, abs, forearm).

Ive solved it I think..O)) at least it worked this time Somehow the info on the body texture must have gotten messed up...when I checked the material all the textures was the right ones but still this strange texture for the body so what I did was I opened it in PS to see if it looked right then I renamed it and now it works.. Thanks all of you for your help

3ddave, that is probably it. I used to do my MATs in notepad and it is probably when I started using MATedit programs that I noticed the change. I use the program editor I linked above it's easy to use and it doesn't matter how large the file is it still opens it. So I use teh MATEditor and then I reduce sizes with the pfe and shrink the pose files down :-)

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3ddave, that is probably it. I used to do my MATs in notepad and it is probably when I started using MATedit programs that I noticed the change.

I use the program editor I linked above it's easy to use and it doesn't matter how large the file is it still opens it. So I use teh MATEditor and then I reduce sizes with the pfe and shrink the pose files down :-)

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