After a long delay, I have fiunally moved up to Poser 7. It occured to me that this might be a good time to plan ahead and avoid the complete content mess I ended up with under poser 5!

It was just about impossible to find the poses that went with the figues, separate the mats from the actual poses. Then there was the mess of trying to find iimage file names that looked like they had been encrypted, etc, etc. It seemed like I spent more time with the windows search tool thann making the graphics...

So, can anyone recommend something to help me manage the content? Or is P7 easier in this regard? I don't mind paying extra for a useful tool, as long as I can avoid ending up in the same state as before!

All clues very gratefully receievd!

Nick

Poser 7 now allows you to organize libraries into content collections (pg 52 in the ref manual) where you can pull things from various library categories and runtimes.

If you're looking for something to automatically sort every bit of content you install into some sort of categorical system, there isn't anything out there. Content creators have their internal system to install content (usually under their name rather than under a generic product category). Maintaining a well-organized runtime is a manual effort that you have to perform after you install products.

You can link to your old Poser runtime if you don't want to reinstall all your old content into Poser 7.

Using external runtimes, organized by say, figure, is a very handy way of making sure you know what goes with which figure. The only downside is the need to completely re-install everything, and the seconds lost moving between different runtimes.

Pboost can help, as it works like internal different runtimes, but it won't tell you what the poses or whatever that already installed are for.

CR Pro

http://www.hogsoft.com/products/product_info.php?products_id=47

correct your texture and geometry references and has a tool to move your content from one runtime to another with all its associated textures and gemoetry.

Thanks for some quick responses!

(And it would also make my life easier if Content Creators would use their names - **WITHOUT the "!" and other characters to get to the top of the $!£"ing list!)
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PBoost looks handy, I'll read some more about that, it could help. CR Pro also sounds like it could save me a lot of time!

Do people feel that these programs are reasonably easy to use? 
Nick

I don't find CR Pro hard to use, but it is very diffrent.

that is to say steep learning curve but once you get it, its easy to use.

Quote - I don't find CR Pro hard to use, but it is very diffrent.

that is to say steep learning curve but once you get it, its easy to use.

Thanks Tyger - sounds like its what I need to clean up the old libraries before I start moving them around...

Nick

And Pboost is fairly easy to use as well, which isn't surprising as the same person created both it and CR Pro.

Anything out there that works on a Mac?

I just ordered both - I will let people know how I get on - thanks for the tips!
Nick