Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A request to store merchants about figures

Mason opened this issue on Mar 06, 2003 ยท 27 posts


ronstuff posted Fri, 07 March 2003 at 3:18 AM

PS - about why Poser Puts objs in the character folder. There are some a REALLY good reasons: 1) It only puts an obj in the character folder (where the CR2 is) when YOU have ALTERED the geometry of the original file in some way within Poser (morphs alone don't alter the geometry but some other things in Poser do). 2) When you alter the geometry, Poser is PROTECTING the original geometry by not placing it in the same folder as the original (and perhaps overwriting it if you use the same name). 3) When you make custom geometry, Poser assumes you would like to find it easily if you want to backup your work or perhaps share it with others. The LOGICAL thing to do is put your custom geometry in the same folder as your custom CR2 because the two work together, and its nice to be able to find them together when you decide to move or share it. This is designed so that AMATEURS can use these geometry-altering features without endangering the originals. It is NOT created to make commercial products. 4) If you decide to market something made in this fashion then you REALLY should know enough place the custom geometry in a folder OF YOUR OWN (in the geometries section) and to edit the CR2 to reflect these changes. This is REALLY SIMPLE! With a decent text editor it takes a couple of minutes - you don't need any fancy CR2edit program, just a good ascii text editor. If you can't do this, then please re-consider selling your product. Maybe as a freebie people will forgive the lack of consideration to the end user.