PapaBlueMarlin opened this issue on Mar 02, 2005 ยท 33 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 03 March 2005 at 4:22 PM
In this post, I am quoting myself from another thread where the same question was asked. A thread about poses.
Please note that this is nothing more than a sketch of my particular system. It isn't a map of my entire set of runtimes -- it's just a bare outline.
As I note at the end of this quote, there isn't any one correct way to do this. My advice would be to pick and choose what works for you.
I try to organize my poses by figure. I have separate directories for "Victoria 3", "Michael 3", "Stephanie Petite", "Mil Cat".... etc..
In the case of mixed figure poses, I have directories for that, too - "V3/M3", etc..
Like this:
Runtime/Poses/Victoria 3/Sitting
Runtime/Poses/Victoria 3/Standing
And so forth.
For individual character-injection poses, I classify them separately:
It breaks down like this:
Runtime/Poses/Characters/Victoria 3/Amy
Runtime/Poses/Characters/Victoria 3/Barbara
Runtime/Poses/Characters/Victoria 3/Cathy
Runtime/Poses/Characters/Michael 3/Adam
Runtime/Poses/Characters/Michael 3/Barnabas
Runtime/Poses/Characters/Michael 3/Calvin
etc, etc, etc....................
BTW -- I have tons of characters in my runtime: these are merely organizational examples.
When I want to use a given character, I know exactly where to go to find the necessary character-injection poses.
However, just like with standard poses -- I rarely use a character exactly as it comes out of the box. Normally, I end up tweaking the texture, facial features, etc.....
For poses dealing with things, as in props, I organize them thus:
Runtime/Poses/Furniture/DAZ/XYZ set
Runtime/Poses/Furniture/Office/
Runtime/Poses/Furniture/Household/
Runtime/Poses/Equipment/Photography/Cameras/
Runtime/Poses/Equipment/Computers/
Runtime/Poses/Equipment/Industrial/
Runtime/Poses/SciFi/Davo/
Runtime/Poses/Magic/Emerald Scepter
Runtime/Poses/Vehicles/SAMS3D/
Runtime/Poses/Vehicles/iw43D/
Runtime/Poses/Vehicles/Aircraft/
This brief outline should give you an idea.
I'm not saying that doing it this way will work for everyone: but it works for me.
Each of us needs to have a runtime organizational system of some kind -- otherwise, you'll eventually end up with a complete mess.