Digital Art Zone

So, I’ve got a bunch of stuff from waaaay back when, and it’s been missing the MATs for longer than I care to think about. Well, I just realised that it’s because there’s stuff in that stack that’s got the MATs saved as rsr files. How do I make those into something actually useful? I’d just hand-load the textures and save new dsa files, but I’m missing things like displacement min/max and specular colour, so I’d rather fish out the old data, if possible, before I try that.

.rsr is a tumbnail file, repalced by PNGs now, not the settings file.

Well, crap. I guess I’m still missing the MATs, then. Back to digging through stuff. Thanks!

Exactly what files do you have? Is this a freebie or a store product?

To change the rsr files into png files, you can use this program: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=57197

Richard Haseltine - 29 May 2012 11:54 AM

Exactly what files do you have? Is this a freebie or a store product?

I wish I knew… My content database decided to eat itself, and I’m still trying to put everything back. Unfortunately, this means that due to poor labelling on the part of some creators, I really don’t know what products I’m looking at or where they came from. I mean, obviously, most stuff is pretty easy to figure out, but there’s some things that are so old, I can’t figure out who made them, what they might be part of, or where to look for what else goes with them. *shrugs* When I spotted the RSRs in my Runtime, I got excited, thinking that I’d found the MATs for something, but apparently I’ve found the misplaced thumbnails for the still misplaced MATs… for ... something.

MargyThunderstorm - 29 May 2012 11:58 AM

To change the rsr files into png files, you can use this program: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=57197

Thanks! That’ll at least help me figure out which thumbnails those are, and maybe where they’re actually supposed to go. I know I didn’t unpack some stuff properly, way back when, which is also part of this problem.

MargyThunderstorm - 29 May 2012 11:58 AM

To change the rsr files into png files, you can use this program: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/details.php?item_id=57197

Thanks for the link. I so needed this.

You’re welcome.

For anyone using ShaderWorks Library Manager 2 in Poser there is an option to have any rsr automatically converted to png. It will even automatically delete the rsr after the conversion. Saves me a lot of time manually converting that I used to do witth above app.