How to download custom poser files

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If you want to know exactly where the files are installed, a map is available in the Readme text found in the ZIP file. If you have acquired a large of collection third-party content, you may find it necessary to arrange your content into multiple library folders. If you need more options than the Runtime and Download libraries that are created during installation, you can add new Library folders. Pro Tip: Poser will perform top-level indexing when new Runtime libraries are added. A yellow circle appears underneath the Search icon when the library is being indexed.

Searches performed during indexing may not include all results until after indexing is complete. Library indexing will also be initiated when you refresh library folders.

Adding an item to the Library will also initiate indexing in the directory to which the item was added. Navigate the Browse dialog to your desired Runtime folder.

The added Library will appear using the name of the folder containing the Runtime folder. Using this method, the subfolder must be named "Runtime" for Poser to recognize it. Use the Show Library menu to select libraries, or the library to which you want to add the folder. Click the category icon that applies to the subfolder you want to create. For example, if you are using the new folder to store a Prop, select the Prop category.

Click the Create New Folder icon located at the bottom of the Library palette. You are prompted to enter a name for the new folder. The Remove Library button appears when a library other than the Poser default libraries is selected.

You cannot delete the default Poser library. Poser characters and props are based on the obj file format, but the obj file alone does not give enough information for Poser to produce all the properties of the 3D objects that we have available to us in Poser.

For this reason Poser uses CR2, pp2 and other files to supplement the information in the obj file and extend our capabilities for working with it. The information normally supplied in an obj can also be embedded within a pp2, CR2 or other files, using the standard obj coordinate format. Thus prop downloads often do not specifically include a stand alone obj file. An obj file, or a CR2 with embedded obj data, conveys information about 'morph targets'. Each library element is described by a special type of file:.

CR2 for characters, and on through the list. All of these files are text files, which you can open in a text editor or word processing program. They contain formalized descriptions and instructions written in code that Poser can read.

As with any computer instructions, everything has to be in exactly the right format and exactly the right place within the file. Because the files can be large and complex, it is not advisable to modify them unless you have a good idea how to go about it.

Always make a backup copy before editing a file. All of these files follow a similar structure, but have separate filename extensions and library locations see the File Placement Table for details. The simplest of these files control props, lights, and cameras, and the most complex, the CR2 files, describe Poser characters. You may wish to have a look at the file in a text editor, but be careful not to save any changes or the file will no longer work. Each file refers to an underlying obj geometry file, also in text format.

The file describes the parameters that can change within poser, including size, position, textures, etc. There can be more than one file referring to a single obj. This would happen, for example, if the modified prop, character, etc. Indentation is used to distinguish the levels of the hierarchy. Indented text is a sub section of the text that encapsulates it.

The major sections describe the file version, the location and name of the obj file used, and properties such as the settings applied in Poser.

Poser will add new entries as needed under channels, as well as modify values in the existing entries. It should rarely be necessary to modify these types of Library files outside of Poser, with the exception of CR2 files.

Any attempt to modify these files should involve a copy, not the original, and should include great care to maintain the brackets and other critical elements of the file format. The CR2 file is a special case of the descriptive Library files. The CR2 is the largest and most complex of these, and the type that you are most likely to modify outside of Poser.

The geometry of the figures used in Poser is stored in obj files. The CR2 file offers Poser-specific details: size, position, pose, textures, proportions, etc.

It also controls the dials that change the figure; the dials can be hidden and modified from within the CR2. Normally the CR2 governs a single figure. Some of the other Library Files files work by modifying specific sections of the CR2. For example, poses, faces, hands, etc. This change is written to the pz3 Poser scene file.

If the modified character is saved to the Poser library, the pose, face, or hand file overwrites the original information in the CR2 file. An obj file, or a CR2 with embedded obj information, conveys the information about 'morph targets'.

A morph target modifies the geometry of a Poser figure, and is controlled by a dial provided by the CR2 file. The Poser 4 manual defines and discusses morph targets on pages The CR2 file is organized into about 15 sections, related to Poser version, the intended obj file, the figure body parts called 'actors' in the CR2 file , their connections and interrelations, the materials applied to the parts, the preset materials, and the display mode.

Settings within these sections control such things as scaling, the ways the parts bend, whether they are visible, and endless other details. One of the easiest mistakes to make in editing a CR2 file is to forget or delete a closing bracket. It is risky to edit a CR2 file. The size and complexity makes it easy to make a mistake and difficult to locate the mistake.

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