I have a question about texture pathnames in saved pz3 files for the Mac platform. When the Mac pz3 scene file is saved, it doesn't seem to include the pathname or any part of the pathname for the textures, unlike the PC version which at least saves the pathname starting inside the textures folder. However, in the Mac pz3 file, it does have a number immediately under the texture name. For all files from a specific folder, this number is the same. If you introduce a new texture from a completely different folder, then that number is different for that texture. Example: textureMap "M2HeadM2.jpg" -1 173584 bumpMap "V2HeadBump.bum" -1 173759 My question is, does this number (the longer one) somehow reference the pathname where that texture is located? If so, how do I find out what that is? For the PC, both these numbers are zeroes. I'd appreciate any assistance you guys can give in this. -darlisa

The numbers are the Mac notation of the filepath: The first number (-1 in the example) is the drive ID (the volume on your disk), the second number (e.g. 173584) is the directory ID (the folder in the volume). The two IDs and the file name together form the pathname. If both numbers are 0, or if there are no numbers, Poser uses the text included in the filename as pathname, for example

textureMap 'myDisk:myFolder:M2HeadM2.jpg'
0 0

Poser for Mac evaluates the IDs faster than text. Because of this, a pathname is converted to IDs, and the IDs are stored in the pz3 document. To find out the IDs of a specific folder, you can for example locate a texture map within this folder in Poser's Material Editor, then save the document, re-open it in a text editor, and inspect the textureMap lines.

Thanks, much appreciated. I may be back later with more questions. -darlisa