Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Installing your Runtime (free program)

ahudson opened this issue on Nov 05, 2007 · 105 posts


Stepdad posted Fri, 28 December 2007 at 12:11 AM

Most useful feature I could think of off the top of my head would be a filter for the directory names that come in many prepackaged runtimes.

For example, the directory name in the character folder might be Micheal's Suit - but the guy who made the runtime for whatever reason decided to put "Mat Suit" for a directory name for the mat files, and used "artist name here" as the directory name in the geometry and texture file location.

This can become quite maddening after a while, you get 10 or 20 directories like this and trying to track everything down becomes a royal pain in the keester, especially those damn material files.  How can anyone possibly remember the name of the original vendor 6 months or a year later so they can track down the geometry or worse yet the original texture file?

If your program could allow you to substitute a single name for all of these different directory names that would be a real godsend.  It would be nice it it would check to see no duplicate names of that same directory already existed, but just the ability to get rid of that stupid "MAT" designation or those godawful "!" signs in front of the directory name would be fantastic.

Nothing worse than trying to find something when it's out of alphabetical order.  Really wish more people would keep that in mind when there packaging this stuff in the first place.

Lol.. ok, rant over... 

Stepdad