Replicant opened this issue on Apr 07, 2010 · 9 posts
bagginsbill posted Wed, 07 April 2010 at 11:30 AM
Poser does not want to let you store a prop in figures or a figure in props, or a light in cameras, or a camera in materials. Cross-category storing is not offered.
However, once you've stored whatever, you can use your file browser to move it into whatever category/folder you want. The GUI supports cross-category content, it just doesn't allow you to do it directly from Poser.
SM's content group did this themselves. They have clothing (figures) for Ryan and Alyson located in the Props folders.
I'm not sure I understand why they support it but don't want to offer it. Maybe to keep noobs from getting confused?
The prop/figure dichotomy never made sense to me. In fact, the whole category system doesn't make a lot of sense if I think deeply about it. But there are tons of users who scream bloody murder if you violate it.
I can sort of accept that cameras go in cameras and lights go in lights. But mesh objects (prop or figure, who cares) should be one category. Do you really care whether a room with doors that open and close is modeled as a figure? Nope.
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