Question about saving poses

Wonderland

If you are creating poses and/or expressions for (hopefully) sale, should you save them as compressed files or uncompressed? 

Quixotry

I've always saved mine as uncompressed files. I believe I saw it written down as a requirement once when I was just starting as a PA, but I haven't been able to find that anywhere since. Since no one at Daz has asked me to send compressed files rather than uncompressed ones, I can only assume that their preference has not changed. 

Maybe some other PAs who make poses can jump in and confirm that. 

agent unawares

No reason to save them compressed except to save a tiny bit of space. It's easier to do editing that you may want to do if you save uncompressed.

Wonderland

Oh, OK thanks. I usually save everything as compressed to save room. I didn't know it was easier to make edits later with uncompressed. Now I have to figure out how to add thumbnails attached to the poses...

agent unawares

You put the thumbs in the same directory. They should be 91x91 pngs named after the pose file like this: Standing.duf and Standing.png

You can also add larger png files that will show up as popups when you hover over with this type of name: Standing.tip.png

Wonderland

OK, thanks. Now I just have to figure out where in the directory to put everything. I'm doing a character and poses and expressions... Then I have to figure out how to do a separate slider for head and body. I have a tutorial on how to create a slider for the whole character, but not for separate head and body...

agent unawares

You can attenuate a complete morph with the headsplit deformer to make separate head and body morphs.

https://direct.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/2774606/#Comment_2774606