Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Suggested Standard for Merchants by Merchants

BlueBeard opened this issue on Oct 28, 2003 ยท 83 posts


Silke posted Wed, 29 October 2003 at 6:12 AM

Here is me, the person who buys this stuff... I don't like having textures in any folder OTHER than my textures folder. I don't like having readme's in my textures folder. I don't like having readme's anywhere but a readme folder where I can FIND them. I don't like readmes that contain no info! I don't like readmes that are named readme.txt. I don't like products I have to unzip then copy into places where they should be. (i.e. xyzproductruntime....) I don't like Mat or Pose files in my Cameras folder. I don't like hardcoded bits in my files. I don't like products where I can't identify which figure they are for. I don't like additional object files that vanish into places unknown and which I then can never find again. (/objects/prodname !! How difficult is that?) I don't like morphs that vanish the same way (/morphs/prodname) I don't like blank thumbnails. I don't like P4 & P4PP/P5 files mixed in one folder I don't like V3/V2 (M2/M3) mixed in one folder. I absolutely positively DETEST ! & ++ etc naming of folders So there you have it. Make it easy for me to work with stuff. Granted, even if it's not done this way, if I like what I see, I will likely buy it no matter how it's organized. To be honest, I would even prefer textures to go into a PRODUCT folder, rather than a merchantname folder or just into the textures folder. That way I would know exactly where to look if I have to find something. But I won't like having to shift stuff around and think twice about it.

Quote - If you can't figure that one out. You have no business using a computer in the first place.

I hate to say it, ScottA, but that comment makes me want to slap you, and slap you HARD. If you sell something, you make it as EASY as possible for people to use and find stuff. Especially if you have to assume that people who buy it may not be as computer literate / proficient as you would like them to be. It has nothing whatsoever to do whether I can or can't "figure that out". I can find anything I bloody well want to find, and then some. I just CHOOSE not to want to go searching all over the place for textures that may be in a geometries folder where no one in their right mind would look when there is the OBVIOUS place called gasp TEXTURES!!

Silke