Bozlifyme opened this issue on Feb 24, 2008 · 39 posts
mapps posted Wed, 05 March 2008 at 12:00 PM
So glad you like all the goodies ;-) will be uploading a new one soon if I can get my PC working properly again (had a major system crash). No poser files lost though ... yippy!
Breaking it into sub folder helps, the longer the display list is in the Library window the longer it takes to show up :-) Some merchants give you a mother load when you but a product for example renapd has a ton of options in a character texture pack. I break the folder down inside to "heads" makeups, eyes, body's poses etc this way instead of trying to load 50+ options in a single folder you can load 10-15 in sub folders. Makes a huge difference. But if you want to be Poser Pro compatible you have to put it all in one big folder.
The vender folders work best if you grab allot of stuff from the same merchants over and over. My ali, BATLAB, renapd, goldtassel, AL3D and a few others their folders are quite full. My "mapps" folders I think are the largest ... lol
I do break down all of my main folders this way, it really helps find the other part for the cloths you are using. For example if you are using a "A3-BATLAB" outfit then you would check your A3 BATLAB "props" "pose" etc to see what else goes with it. I've also started grouping merchants together if they overlap. For example a outoftouch texture for a ValArt3D outfit would be in the ValArt3D mat pose folder Marked "oot-Sauraian" so I if I am using the Saurian Prestess dress and I check for textures i don't need to remember who made textures for it. I got it out of my ValArt3D V4-Clothing folder so check my ValArt3D textures folder in poses and know that alternate textures for the same outfit will be there marked by who did them.
No I have so many textures by outoftouch I have a oot folder in ValArt3D with all the texture sets he has made for their outfits, the same goes for renapd and a couple of other merchants that I have a bag of their work.
To be honest you were lucky to get a quick reply, I don't wander in here very often, about once a week :-)