Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What does ! mean?

moushie opened this issue on Apr 15, 2006 ยท 65 posts


XFX3d posted Sun, 07 May 2006 at 5:37 PM

Quote - But frankly, storing stuff in folders by merchant is a terrible way to do things. You are much better keeping all V3 dresses in one folder, all M3 shoes/boots in another, and so on. It's more work at first, but saves time in the long run.

XFX Stuff is generally done by product name, and we figure you can rename and move things as you see fit. We do.

Dodger himself specifically moves his clothing into Prop library folders by figure and renames all the CR2s to PP2s because, well, clothing just makes sense as a prop to him, not as a figure. A posable prop maybe, but still a prop.

However, things are not distributed this way because we'd be fielding no end of support messages asking where things are, no matter how clearly we express it in the READMEs. So we just go with the normal flow of things.

Everyone has their own sorting style, so we figure just let 'em use it. If you want to rename all of our Poses to be .cm2 files and stick 'em in cameras, more power to you!

As for the private folders, we go with !XFX. Again the 'at the top' thing (and it's not because !XFX comes after !DAZ at least) is not the issue, just the seperating it out to avoid clutter in the 'real' folders. Why the top rather than the bottom? Well, because it's usually the top, so those private libraries can all be in the same place, together. Further, the '!' in this case serves to point out that it's not a 'normal' folder to some extent. And honestly, unless you're a power user, you never look in the 'hidden' libraries anyway.

I'm the asshole. You wanna be a shit? You gotta go through ME.