Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Rantin & ravin about freestuff....or....the 'price' of freestuff

Lucy_Fur opened this issue on May 17, 2003 ยท 66 posts


hauksdottir posted Sat, 17 May 2003 at 9:29 PM

It is free. It has just saved you hours if not weeks of work to make yourself (if you are even capable of making it) and yet you people still find some niggly little thing to complain about? And it is different in each instance? I especially love the complaint about making sure that the item is "current". :snort: Just because it is older doesn't mean that people don't want to use it anymore. (An example is SergeMarck's fine dresses... why should a free-stuff provider be prohibited from offering a texture because a newbie who acquired Poser last month can't get the dress without asking him?) And I'm using the word "prohibit" deliberately, because that is what rules do. The same people who are arguing against the protection of laws elsewhere are in this thread wanting regulations. sheesh! I feel fortunate if it opens and there is a file inside (I hate empty and/or corrupted zips). If someone has put their entire weekend into making a texture, surely I can spend 5 minutes to rename it according to my preferred conventions and move it to where I can find it again. If it is a model of a castle or a countryside, I'm not going to yelp if it unzips to a file called "runtime" or "peteyb!rd" or even "prop01"... I wouldn't have downloaded it if I didn't want it, so spending a minute to rename it subject-format-artist seems trivial. I used to keep textures for skin and clothing in completely separate directories, I used to keep morphs separate from characters. I used to keep poses separate, too, because many of them can cross the boundaries of species. I'm not going to expect a free-stuff provider to follow my whim in any particular year... despite that fact that I was a reference librarian for 4 years in 2 different library systems and could lay claim to some expertise in organization. We didn't even have MAT files a couple of years back, who knows what will happen next year? Or where any of us will want it placed? Meanwhile, for any providers of free-stuff... I'll gladly take what you have given... and convert, joliet, rename, whatever. My efforts are minor indeed to what you offer so freely and so generously. Carolly