BlueBeard opened this issue on Oct 28, 2003 ยท 83 posts
KateTheShrew posted Wed, 29 October 2003 at 2:27 AM
Ok, here we go. MAT files: I'm with Carolly on this one. Do NOT put them in any folder except the Pose folder. I don't want to have to go hunting them down in the Camera, Hands, Face, lights, etc. folders. I want them where I can FIND them. So I can delete them, rename them, move them or whatever. It is beyond annoying not to be able to find them because they're in the camera folder or the hands folder or someplace stupid like that. Readme files: I don't have MS word or any other program that will read .doc files. Make them .txt files. Put the product name on them. Readme.doc will just get deleted. Readme.txt will get overwritten. MyProductReadme.txt will get filed in the appropriate location. Also, include your name, your contact info and what the heck the product is for - if it's a V3 product SAY SO. I can't tell you how many items I have that I can't use because I don't remember what they go to. This especially applies to clothing textures and hair textures. Geometry files: Put them in the Geometries folder. I don't care WHERE in the Geometries folder you put them, but I darn sure do NOT want them in the characters, hair or props folders. The Geometries folder is there for a reason people. Use of special characters (!~+ etc) in the folder names: Don't do it. One of the BEST ways to insure that I will NEVER buy from you again. I organize my libraries the way I want them organized, not the way YOU want them organized. (I'm still extremely pissed off at DAZ about this). Texture names: Please don't name your textures things like "black" "blue" etc. If nothing else add your intials or something so that when I run Poser or Correct Reference it doesn't wind up applying a brown horse texture to a brown eye. Do you know how many texture maps I have that are named "black.jpg"? 15. A horse texture, 4 dress textures, 3 hair textures, and two boot textures. Gimme a break here, would ya? Let's not even discuss how many blues, reds and greens there are. Sheesh, we're talking a LOT of editing here just to make sure things get applied where they're supposed to. Texture placement: Stick 'em in the textures folder. If they're clothing textures put them in textures:clothes:nameofproduct or something like that. Then the black dress textures won't get mixed up with the black horse textures PLUS I'll be able to apply them to the correct item when I export my poser scenes for rendering (pfft, yeah right, like I'm gonna render in Poser... Puhleeze) Kate the Konsumer