Syrel opened this issue on Mar 17, 2006 ยท 26 posts
pleonastic posted Wed, 26 April 2006 at 6:25 PM
i don't let anything install itself; i unpack into a temp directory, re-sort into a dummy filestructure, defrag the objs that need it with spanki's STOMP, make pngs, run crpro over the whole thing, and then move it into my -- as yet single -- runtime, and test it all. i also create a new zip file of the dummy structure for backup, and make an uninstaller. the resorting is a major deal, though i wrote a quick-n-dirty utility to do most of it for me once i realized this was going to be the way i wanted to do it, and that makes it faster now. i get rid of merchant names in folders (i have a flat text file associating products with creators so i can give credit). i separate characters from textures from clothes from hair from shoes from props from poses... i eliminate idiocies like folders starting with !!! to sort above other merchants' folders (shame on you!). i rename badly named components. i delete most makeup, lip, hair, recoloured-only textures since i can easily do my own colourization in the material room. i move templates into their own structure, away from poser. i hunt down templates if they don't come with the product. no, i am not actually obsessive-compulsive. :) poser is in fact the only program for which i go to such ridiculous lengths. it just pissed me of royally with its haphazard, unwieldy, buggy disorganization of content that was eating my diskspace as if it were bill gates. poser used to take forever and a day to start up, and it is not graceful when it can't find something. now it's almost zippy -- as zippy as poser can be. and i find things very quickly -- not just because my organization is good, but also because the sorting and renaming makes me more familiar with exactly what's in which product. oh, and i don't use poser's hideous library interface, i use p3do explorer with which i also make the pngs.