Just in case - another oddity:


I use D3D's "Poser File Editor" (PFE) for almost anything when it comes to working "under the hood".
However it only occurred to me today that there's a difference in how PFE and Poser write the files (pz3, pp2, whatever)

I found this out because I had a strange error and thus compared a PFE save with a Poser save. (WinMerge program was used: "http://winmerge.org/")

Guess what? The only difference appears to be in the " " WHITESPACES!

• It seems like Poser is writing whitespaces for indentations (and also for any values like "hidden 0") as TABS, each two whitespaces wide.
• For PFE a white space is just a whitespace, and a single one.

>> POSER FILE:
 
	dynamicsLock		1
	hidden		0
	addToMenu	1
	castsShadow		1
	includeInDepthCue		1
	useZBuffer		1
 
 

>> PFE FILE:
 
	dynamicsLock  1
		hidden  0
		addToMenu 1
		castsShadow  1
		includeInDepthCue  1
		useZBuffer  1
 
 

Actually this is no problem that you should worry about.
Indeed there is no noticeable difference whether you load either of the versions.

This is just in case you ever happen to stumble over this (admittedly) tiny problem.
But if you ever want to compare large files (like SASHA's), it might be handy to know.

As Spock once said to Captain Kirk: "Captain, a difference that makes no difference IS NOT A DIFFERENCE!"

LL&P

\//_

K

Oh you're welcome.
Actually it's no big issue, but I think every bit of information about Poser quirks might be helpful to someone, some day.
Future figure creators of new Poser figures, hunting down errors?
Who knows...