Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Like to have Library Organisation comments

aRtBee opened this issue on Oct 26, 2006 ยท 25 posts


xen posted Thu, 26 October 2006 at 1:01 PM

aRtBee: good point. My peeves are:

  1. Switching between runtimes is tedious. Have I missed some hotkey? The only way I found is to click all the way up the hierarchy and then click down into another runtime. Hard to believe that it is done like this on purpose.

  2. You had to keep cr2, pp2 etc all separate. This is better in P6, but you still have to rename the extension. Sometimes it is easier to keep all the bits together in one directory. Basically all Poser library management is open heart surgery by poking around the filing system manually. You can't drag and drop a bunch of library items from one place to another.

  3. Can't save props with lights. If you have a set and have moved lightsources to all the lightbulbs in the scene, you can't save it in one place, you must save the prop and the lights seperately

  4. library items save with the preview, not with the last render. Arrgh. If you add transmapped hair, you can never see the thing in the preview.
    The workaround to render something, save it as a png, scale it down and copy it into the right place manually is ridiculous.

  5. No library group for full pz3 designs, so you can see little pictures of your designs in progress. (Like in Vue)

  6. No system convention where to store morphs.

  7. No system convention where to store readmes/eulas. There should be an XML file or something for each item, so you can get the information who made it, when you bought/downloaded it, if you can use it for commercial use etc, by clicking on some button or hovering the mouse.

  8. No easy way to add new items in a place of your choice. Some items install to directories that the creator decided on (starting with!!!!) other will make a new runtime. I manually move everything into the places where I want them. I have my own library organisation like you described in your first post. It gets quite deeply nested otherwise you never find anything again.

Considering how much Posering is about content, you would have thought this would a high priority to make all this as easy as possible.