edit: I wrote this only after reading the first post, then I read all the other posts about unique naming. Oh, well. :)

While the subject is up, I'd like to add my .02.

Folks, please NAME your files uniquely! I'm referring to readme's and such here - "readme" just doesn't cut it. EVERY product has a readme, not just yours. Please put the name of the product somewhere in the filename (preceding is best imho). This way we don't have to rename your file to make it unique, and we can just dump it where we put such things.

This is a huge pet peeve of mine, and it goes way beyond Poser or even 3D content. File distribution is one of those areas where one person (the producer) can save many people (the consumer) work with virtually no effort. When producers fail to do this, the five seconds it takes to correct the error is multiplied by the number of consumers who downloaded the product.

Similarly, I wish producers would organize their directory structures properly. Take Kozaburo as an example. Here we have a producer who has taken the (probably inordinate) time to give us irreplaceably valuable products for free, and he won't take the time to standardize his directory structures. I just had to reinstall all of his hair recently and I extracted all of his files at once. There were five or so directories where his hair ended up. Five! It may sound like I'm nitpicking here, but I'm not. It's not that I object to the thirty seconds of work required to fix it. What I object to is the idea of hundreds or even thousands of people ALL having to put in thirty seconds of work each to fix it when the producer could have done all of that work in thirty seconds. There's also the principle of the thing; my God man, you put all of that work into those beautiful creations, and you can't name the readmes uniquely, or standardize your directory structure?

Obviously, I don't want to pick on Koz here. I just used his work as an example because it's something just about everyone uses and it fits my peeve to a "t."

Message edited on: 12/11/2004 12:56

Message edited on: 12/11/2004 12:59