thixen opened this issue on Mar 31, 2005 ยท 13 posts
caulbox posted Fri, 01 April 2005 at 11:46 AM
I can relate to so very much of what you say. I also once tried to locate my original zips and re-install - instead of rifling through folders. Two reasons why I stopped - firstly, as I wasn't deleting my old runtimes which still had gigabytes of stuff that I'd be using for some time, any left-over remnants only seemed to add to future confusion and complication. I suppose I was trying to visualise an hourglass, with the sand flowing from one runtime to another. A second reason why I abandoned this strategy is because, in my own 'finicky' way, I wanted total control over location of files. Notwithstanding the credits due to artists, I have my own style of nesting just about everything (including textures and often geometries too) in easy to find appropriately named locations. I'm actually doing it more and more now, since CRPro makes it a very easy option. I follow a similar pattern to yours when it comes to nesting poses/MAT poses within (in my case) character runtimes. I'll have a sub-folder called Clothing. Within this folder, there'll be another folder for each clothing item etc. To better clarify my comments as to why I prefer to make an exception with the Poserworld stuff... there's a 'consistency' adopted within all the zipped pw downloads, which makes it a breeze to select several zipped files at once, and extract them all to the Poserworld runtime. I usually return later to introduce my own particular OTT style - but I can rely on this consistency to know where to look. From everything you say, I think you'd get great rewards from CRPro. It isn't the cheapest (or most expensive) program for sure. But if the old adage that "time is money" has any substance at all, then I can only reaffirm my recommendation.