Keith opened this issue on May 11, 2007 · 124 posts
Keith posted Fri, 11 May 2007 at 1:32 PM
The major problem is that there are two different mindsets colliding.
There's the "I'm an artist, and I want to do things my way!" mindset. Which is perfectly legitimate.
Then there's the "I'm a buyer/user, I want convenience" mindset. Also legit.
The problem is the people supplying content who think too much like the former and not enough like the latter.
I run into the same problem when I review amateur fiction. I see people going "well, okay, my spelling sux and i Use random Capitilization: and i dont follw any grammatical rules known to humankinded, but i'm writing a story and you should only look at that." My reply being then "Well, if you want other people to read your work but you don't care about following some basic rules to make it easier to read, I don't care enough to bother reading it at all."
In a perfect world (that is, one in which I was unquestioned ruler of all), products would be organized as follows:
ReadMe
Merchant
ProductName folder
product readme files
Runtime
Geometries
Merchant
ProductName
product obj files
Libraries
Regular library folders
Merchant
ProductName
product files
AddOn folders*
Textures
Merchant
ProductName
product textures
AddOn folders*
For the AddOn folders (marked by asterisks), what I mean are merchant addons to an existing product. For example, if I made mats and textures for the Daz Morphing Fantasy Dress and sold them, my texture directory layout might look something like this:
Pose
MATs
DAZ
MorphingFantasyDress
KeithsAmazingMFD
Textures
DAZ
Clothing (if organized like this, otherwise move stuff up a level by removing this one)
MorphingFantasyDress
KeithsAmazingMFD
Doing it this way means it's a lot easier to find things. I know all the MAT files from everyone making stuff for the MFD will be in the MFD directory structure. If I want to move the dress from, say, the V3 runtime to a dedicated DAZ clothing runtime, it's easy to find all the files and the add-on products that I've bought.