cmjackson opened this issue on Jul 29, 2003 ยท 42 posts
KateTheShrew posted Tue, 29 July 2003 at 8:37 PM
Ok, here is what I do. I unzip/install everything to a folder named "Poser Temp". Then I go in and change file names (you wouldn't believe how many people name things "sword" or "chair" so I have to convert them to things like "sword 01" and "chair 32" to keep things from being overwritten. After I've done that, I sort the textures into the folders where I can find them (textures:Clothes:Vicky:Clopak1:Skirt for example), name the MAT, MOR, FIT and other poses according to type and run Correct Reference. THEN I move it all into my Poser runtime, putting things in the directory structure that makes the most sense to me. Since I use PBooost, I have several different folders. Example: PoseMATClothes, PoseMATHair, PoseFITHair, PoseScenes, PosePeople, PoseAnimals, etc. This applies to everything from characters to faces to hair to poses to props. That way, if I'm working with Vicky, I don't need to have Dina or Natalia's stuff loaded up. Or if I'm working on setting up the scenery I don't need to have any of the people or animal figures loaded up. Now, given that I don't install directly to the Poser runtime, and I do have a great batch renamer program, it's still very annoying to have to go looking for POSES in the camera or hair folder. What I, as a consumer, want in the camera folder is camera settings. I want light settings in the lights folder, face settings in the faces folder, and would it really be too much to ask that somewhere in the readme file merchants could include a little note that tells you what model the item is for? I can't begin to tell you how many things like hair and clothes I have that I bought so long ago that I actually have to come to r'osity, do a search for the product and find out that way. And that doesn't always work. All it would take would be a little line that says "designed for use with Vicky 2" or "designed for use with Posette" or whatever applies. Ok, sorry for the rant and going off topic and such, but please, if I want pose files in my camera folder, let me put them there myself so I'll know where the heck to look for them in the first place. (Not everyone remembers to mention that they put the mat poses in cameras). Kate