3Dsmacker opened this issue on Aug 21, 2007 · 23 posts
3Dsmacker posted Sat, 25 August 2007 at 11:10 AM
"Maximum number of runtimes handled by Poser 6 ... Order the runtimes are searched."
Both questions answered in the Poser Technical forum (see below).
The practical limit seems to be 60 to 100 runtimes attached at once.
The runtimes are searched in the order in which they have been added. First-in-first-found.
(and that order can have an affect on the render.)
I see my way clear now. Each download will have its own external runtime. The top folder of the runtime (the folder above the "runtime" folder) will have the name of the download as the provider has given it (which has its product code) but switched around so that the name of the item shows first in the Poser library. (.I.e. ps_pe036_V3 has folder name V3Base_ps_pe036).
The licensing information is generally included in the top of the runtime structure, so its easy to get at when needed.
At the beginning of a new project, I detach external runtimes I don't need, and attach the ones I want to work with, noting well the order in which they will be searched.
This should give me a good clean way working with all kinds of stuff and yet have a way of isolating problems and tracing them back to specific downloads.
Thank you every one for helping me come up with my databasing philosophy. Any further comments are welcome.