Quote - Anyone ever thought of trying to create and publish a 'suggested way of organizing poser content'... if Vendors, or someone, would copme up with an organizing scheme for content, and actually have vendors adhere to it...    

 

The first people who should be forced to read it are DAZ and E-frontier. DAZ started the whole !!!!! folder name craze and we are still suffering the consequences. And e-frontier (and their predecessors)  seem to screw up the content organization a little more with each release: The same clothes which used to be figures in one release are now props in the next release, geometry files used to be in the geometries folder and they are now in with the cr2 files. Stuff is labelled P5 woman in one place and 'judy' in another etc etc. The folder naming conventions used in the geometries and textures folders bear absolutely no relation to the folder names in the libraries, why can't an identical structure be used? Try to find, I dunno,  posette in your library and then go looking for her geometry file and texture image. Good luck to ya. With a heritage like that it's no wonder vendors and freebie makers mess it up too.

Quote - The creators name in the textures has saved my butt more than a few times when I have needed to find a " Poser cannot find file, you will have to do it yourself," thingy. Which seems to happen once in awhile.

 

It kills me that Poser gives that STUPID message but it doesn't tell you the path it was trying to use. How dumb is that!? So you have to guess at the obscure folder naming conventions the vendor might have used or open the cr2 file in a text editor to find out where it was supposed to be looking. When DAZ studio can't find a file it displays the given path which makes it a whole lot easier to redirect it. I really, really hate poser sometimes  ;o)

As for the deeply nested folders within folders within folders for one stupid prop, sheesh!! And they usually have really long names too, so all you can see is the useless preamble in each name, the important bit hangs off the end and you can't read it.