Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Suggested Standard for Merchants by Merchants

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


Silke posted Thu, 30 October 2003 at 2:34 AM

On Installation - I download the zip to where I want to store it, and then extract it to the runtime in Poser. I use 6 runtimes - Generic bog standard Poser runtime, V2, V3, M2, M3, Scenes. So if it's a building - it goes in the scenes runtime, V3 into the V3 runtime and so on. Then of course I end up with V2 stuff in the V3 folder - which I don't always clean up. I don't always know if I can safely move stuff, I don't always know if I have moved all the bits I need to move because I don't usually know what goes with what. I found out the hard way that V3 / M3 figures need to be installed at the top level runtime or they don't work, so I ended up with 2 installations of them. In a way, I'm rethinking the whole thing again. But so God help me - the organizing of my files isn't made easy. If I buy something, that means I want to use it right away. Without having to copy / paste stuff all over the place. Then some bright spark goes and sticks stuff into a vendornameruntime... folder and I have to go and pull the runtime out of there and stick it where it belongs. Another gives me a huge long list of files and where I have to put them. Manually. (I HATE that) Another assumes that all my stuff is in C:Program FilesMetacreationsPoserruntime............. - Trust me, it's not. I can live with the extracting to a temp folder to make it easy to copy stuff to where you want it. But if you do that, you use a Renderosityruntime folder please, and then ALL packages should go there. Not just the odd one. It's the odd ones that really mess stuff up. I won't like the above, but I can live with it.

Silke