Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Multiple Runtimes and Cleaning out

thixen opened this issue on Mar 31, 2005 ยท 13 posts


Acadia posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 2:23 AM

A few weeks ago I reformatted my computer and completely re-installed my poser runtime; this time into multiple runtimes. I had one for V3, SP3, M3, hair, lighting and poses. About a week ago, I installed something into the V3 runtime, and saw that it was for SP3 too. At that point I dumped my SP3 runtime into my V3 one, making one runtime, and did the same with my Hair runtime making one runtime for V3/SP3/Hair. That same day I consolidated my Poses and Lighting runtimes into one because right after posing, I add lighting. Yesterday I installed something and saw that it worked not only for V3 and SP3, but for The Girl too. Argggg! Today I decided to separate them again. This time my strategy is: V3 character addons V3 clothing S3P character addons S3P clothing Multi-figure items Hair Poses Lighting I'm a creature of habit and find it difficult to adjust to drastic change in organization and eventually gravitate back to older, if not as effectual methods out of habit. One thing I can say about having redone my runtimes so many times trying to find just the right way for me, is that I weed out things that to me now see 'so-so' and are rarely used. Plus I'm getting better with my organization too :) I've made sure I have taken the time to rename the blasted "readme" files to the same as it's corresponding item, and have included the artist name on it as well as the folders in both the Character and Poses folder. My only concern is the "multi-figure items runtime". I'm not sure how I'm going to keep track of what's in it exactly. I somehow think that it will just fall to the wayside and the contents ignored. I only wish I could organize the Textures and Geometries folders instead of having them as massive dumping grounds, but I was told to not move things around or rename things in them otherwise Poser loses track of them. I'm hoping that by separating the clothing from the character addons, that the runtimes will be more managable. I have another question. You said you have your hair runtime at the top of your runtime list in Poser. How do you do that? I've tried changing the order of things and can't. I find the order is in the way I initially added them. Is there a way to change the order of them after they have been added or do I have to delete them and readd them again in the order that I want?

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