KattMan opened this issue on Apr 23, 2002 ยท 9 posts
KattMan posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 8:32 AM
I now have a free add-on for the Poser Wizard available in Free Stuff. Want to share those morphs without breaking copyright? Just go there and grab the Squisher Wizard. I have a week off from all my other contracts so expect me to be working on more this week.
SAMS3D posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 8:37 AM
This is great, thank you, and thanks for weeks off for you...Sharen
Ian Porter posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 1:16 PM
KattMan, Thanks for the free add-on. Enjoy your week. Cheers Ian
KattMan posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 2:43 PM
Heh, this week is going to be spent on add-ons. A few hours each day anyway. Hoping to get the next one out by this weekend. Working on a dial managment type deal. Ordering, renaming and removing un-necessary morphs. You know what I mean. I'm thinking also of a method to have a morph adder that will retian the creators name if imported using the wizard yet still work if you import it normally. This should work due to the comment lines in an OBJ file. This also means that if you don't have this wizard but know the format for the comment line you can create this comment line by hand so that anyone using this wizard can get your name easily. I'm hoping this catches on as a good way to manage almost all aspects of free and commercial releases in some fashion. Just need to get the proper set of tools together. Just think, all this capability for one small price. Almost like buying a subscription rather than an application. So next stop, Dial Wizard.
KattMan posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 4:51 PM
Actually, you can comment any and all poser files. as long as you end up inside the first { in a poser file just start a new line with # as the first character. That line then becomes a comment line and is ignored by poser. Now about the encrypt for warz catching. Remember this is purely a text file and that comment can be removed. Now it is possible to encrypt an entire file but then what use would it be? Yes I have encryption routines that work very well up to 32 bit encryption in a plain text format. It will double or triple the file size though. We don't want larger files to download. Besides, the only people that would be able to use the file would be people that had my Poser Wizard to decrypt the file. That might seriously limit your market and not a good idea for anyone. Heh I like your idea for a PZ3 parser though. Imagine easily being able to tell who to give credit for by just simply parsing the entire scene file. Of course that won't work for texture creators, only morph, pose, prop and character creators.
Lyrra posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 5:00 PM
texture creators usually sig the texture anyway - so if your thingy creates hyperlinks to the texture file, the person making the report file can click to the image and get the artist name. And here's another thing to add: move all textures into one dir and fix cr2/pz3 to refer to new locations. That "cannot find" thing drives me batty :) Lyrra
KattMan posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 6:29 PM
Oh jeesh. Do you know how long this list is getting? All good ideas though, and no idea what order I am going to do them in.
Crescent posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 8:13 PM
Please do the morph dial mover/renamer!!!!!!! It is so needed!
KattMan posted Tue, 23 April 2002 at 10:59 PM
Oh definatly need to add a dial hide option. I'm glad I mentioned this wizard before I got to deep into coding it. I would have had to change a few things. So umm, should we consider this more like an interactive subscription rather then just an application? Talking with the users in this fashion will really help make this one of the best tools out there for Poser. Now you know why I released it the way I did. Only a few wizards in the original product but expandable with little or no limits.