Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Dumping Poser

Butch opened this issue on Jan 11, 2004 ยท 47 posts


12rounds posted Mon, 12 January 2004 at 7:56 AM

Bah! Finding unused geometry files and texture files... a few lines of scripting in a unix-environment and in Windows ppl need "programs" to do those things. I suggest that whoever is really interested in cleaning up geometries and textures -folders from unused stuff, download yourselves some Windows-ported basic unix -tools and learn how to use them. This would be mainly grep-and diff -programs, with which these things can be done quickly and with no hassle. Might be "too involved" approach to those not familiar with anything that sounds like "unix" or "linux" and who don't know how to invoke a command line from Windows. one free Grep fro Windows: http://www.wingrep.com/download.html how to use: read read-me's :) Poser 4 use: 1) use grep to extract all references to the "Geometries" -folder and save the geometry path to a file. 2) use the just saved file as a source for grep and use it to match geometry files to those extracted from character- folders (or props or whatever). save the results to a file. 3) grep all geometry files and save their names to another file. 4) use diff to find what are the differencies between those two saved files in 2 and 3 --> delete the ones not in common (since every referenced geometry file should be in both saved files). Complicated? Not at all once you get the hang of it. This is just a quick'n'dirty approach for those dedicated to get the job done.