Quote - Since this was brought up, I am also starting to break down my P6 runtimes. How many runtimes are optimum? And wouldn't too many confuse the program?

I have lots of runtimes. The ones that I currently have linked to poser are: V3 character addons V3 clothing SP3 character addons SP3 clothing runtime M3 character addons M3 clothing D3 character addons D3 clothing Hair and Nails Lighting Props and Poses Bg and Environments Faeries Mermaids For purposes of Wardrobe Wizard converting, I also have the following: V2 Clothing P4 Woman Clothing P5 Woman Clothing I also have 7 or maybe 8 that I use periodically but not frequently enough to warrant having them connected to Poser all the time. I add them when I feel like working on that figure or theme (IE: animals, furette etc) **************************** The clothing runtimes are divided up into: "morphing" and then futher by outfit and sometimes merchant if I have more than one outfit from that merchant "Misc" and further by outfit and sometimes merchant if I have more than one outfit from that merchant as in the case of Baron, or Daz "Shoes" and further by merchant The character addons runtimes are divided up by merchant and then further by character ********************************* My method is to open the character addons runtime, load my desired figure and then go to that runtimes poses folder and pick my character addon. Next I go to hair, select the hair. Then I go to the clothing runtime and find clothing. I may have to make a trip back to the hair folder and change the hair. Next I fit the clothing. Go to Poses add a pose, adjust clothing Go to Lighting, select my lighting, and then render. I have the runtimes added in by amount of use. Hair/props and poses/lighting all get the top 3 spots. The millennium figures get added in alphabetcial order. Other runtimes below those in order of use. I tend to use faeries more than mermaids, so they are above mermaids in the hierarchy. I hardly ever use backgrounds, so they are at the bottom....should really remove them altogether, but I keep hoping that oneday I'll manage to figure out how to put a background in and render a whole image instead of a tube. I am a creature of habit and do not adjust well to changes at all, so when I first started with multiple runtimes, I found myself slowing gravitating back to one because I found that some clothing is for both SP3 and V3, and with the help of Cliff from Daz, I managed to work out a system that is tailor made for me and is well within my comfort level and highly organized. If there is a clothing package that is for multiple characters, I install that package to each figure's clothing runtime. All hair, regardless of who it's for is put into the hair folder, as are poses. I still get thrown for a loop when some character addon's contain lighting, poses and clothing, but I have decided to install those into the character addon's runtime and look for those types of things in the character's personal folder inside of the poses folder. I have alot of sub folders, but I never have a problem locating anything. I know exactly where things are because after installing anything, I go to the library folder and rename the newly installed folders to " - " or - ". In the cases of clothing where they have oodles of textures IE: MFD, the dress and all of it's textures get put into it's own folder inside the 'morphing clothes" folder, for easy location. I downloaded some things from Poser World the other day, and I installed one clothing file at a time and then went to that runtime and renamed it to "PW - ". I did that for each of the folders in the library folder. So now when I want to use the Greek guy with all the props, I can find them because they are all named the same throughout the library. (DON'T RENAME THE TEXTURES OR GEOMETRIES STUFF) It sounds complicated, but it's really not. It makes so much sense once you actually start to do it.

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