creating pose files out of textures

[CardinalBiggles]

I mess around a lot with textures for my favourite costumes - mostly the MFD, but also Lirio, Pretty in Pink, Texture challenge 5, and I'm planning on working on more, but I don't know how to get from having a texture to a file to put in pose in the libraries for automatic one-click adding to the garment involved. I would love to offer some of my historical costumes as freebies but I'm a bit loath to do so with mere textures.  so, I thought i'd ask!
I'm a dinosaur and I struggle with technology...
thanks, Sarah

[parkdalegardener]

Poser or DS and which version(s)?

[CardinalBiggles]

oops, sorry, poser. I use PoserPro14 but i most things with earlier versions seem to work

[parkdalegardener]

I'll look in the archives and see if I can find a version of pp2014 from before the update to illustrate with. I do have one I'm sure. Poser materials are no longer loaded that way. That method was a hack from the old days to get material files into the pose room. You can still load those old pose/material files in new versions of Poser however.

[CardinalBiggles]

Many thanks!

[parkdalegardener]

Almost supper time here. I'll kick something up later tonight or first thing in the morning. Time to go cooking.

[CardinalBiggles]

much obliged; it's latish at night here, so I look forward to reading it when I'm fresher!

[sanbie]

You mean once you have added your textures to a item of clothing you don't know how to save it.


You just make a new folder in the pose folder with the name of your texture on it...then click the little plus button down the bottom left of the library and save it. you can make the new folder in poser by clicking the one that looks like a folder...and to add your texture and clothing item click the bigger + sign next to the one that looks like a folder...
My screenshot doesn't work so I can't show you with images...but pdg will put you right..

[CardinalBiggles]

So I just put the jpgs into a folder? it automatically turns it into a pz file? or do I have to open the item of clothing, put on the texture and... well if I save it that goes into the file where I save pictures, not into libraries. but I can save it with the library directly? using the folder and + sign?
assume I'm a technological ignoramus....

[sanbie]

No you put them into your texture folder...
let me ask first...are you using the template to make your textures?