basicwiz opened this issue on Nov 16, 2007 · 8 posts
Acadia posted Fri, 16 November 2007 at 12:41 PM
Quote - Let's face it... a lot of merchants are not real good about the way they label things, and a picture of the item out there on the first level listing would certainly help! :)
The Wiz
You can solve that naming problem by using naming continuity when you install something.
When you go to install an .exe or a .zip file for Poser content, don't do it directly into the runtime folder. Things get messed up and lost very quickly doing that. Instead create a new folder on your desktop or somewhere else that you use strickly for installing poser content before it goes to your runtime. I have a folder on my c: drive called "!!Unzipped that I use for that purpose.
Let's say that I purchased a clothing package from "John Smith'. Now let's say that this package consists of a dress, textures for the dress, lights, hair, camera settings and some jewellery. When I unzip the package I may find new folders for that package in the following library folders:
camera
character
hair
poses
props
I open each of those folders and rename the new folders inside to something that I can relate too. For example: John Smith - Snazzy Red Dress. After renaming the folders I move them to my usual runtime folder.
Now when I go to use the "Snazzy Red Dress", I can open poser and look in each of my library folders and see at a glance all things related to that dress package.
You can take it a step further.
Let's say that you manage to find some textures for Snazzy Red Dress.
When you install them don't just drop them into your Pose folder. Name the folder they are in to something like "CindyD - Red Dress TX" and put the folder into the "John Smith - Snazzy Red Dress" folder inside the Pose folder. This way you keep all MAT textures related to that outfit in one spot. That's what I do.
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