Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: DAZ Packaging $%$% ???

momodot opened this issue on May 25, 2005 ยท 19 posts


momodot posted Wed, 25 May 2005 at 8:51 PM

My old downloads have numbers but no names, dozens of my DAZ files have no names, only numbers, I made copies of them with names added to the number since I wanted to keep the downloaded files completely "pure"... I also have a look up table indicating which numbers mean which file. "ps_mo026b_pc1.exe" is a recent ackawizition, and "ps_tx294b_pc2.exe" and "ps_ac180.exe". More of the recent stuff I have does have some nameishnessness in addition to the numbers but they can be realy cryptic, at least to me. I got the wonderful 3D Starter Content recently but the files appropriate to my system on the download page were not utterly clear to a non-techy like me. I managed but I wish it had not required so much of my higher level faculties. My biggest beef though is the installers spinning and spinning looking for runtimes... if I cut it short it invariably has not found the runtime I want (and I have to click each "poser.exe" to see its path!) - sometimes (maybe my installers are old) there is not an option to browse. So the whole matter of canceling or not canceling the search for runtimes, identifying which Poser.exe is which, plus the clicking-through and browsing for runtimes just bums me out compared to using my WinXP decompression on the fly to just drag the zip folder of MP content on to the alternate runtime of my choice all sitting nice and neat in my root directory. I prefer the control and not to have my desktop taken up with a process, I prefer at least when the installer window can be resized. But I guess I am just a ludite... I would prefer if I could work from the DOS shell without 200Mb of Windows overhead messing with me. I totaly would have got a Linux box but it appears that Poser would require a full Windows install to run.