Hi, all
I've not really had time to experiment much with the libraries in the last couple of Poser Versions, but since installing PPro 2010 last week, I've been checking it out, and I did take a few minutes for a simple test..
I took a typical product (in this case Vincent Parker character from CP), and test-installed it into one of my blank Poser Runtimes.  It has the character, hair, mat files, animations, etc.  I swapped the folders out of the various libraries and nested them into a main Char-Vincent Parker folder in the Character library.  Inside this is a folder with VP Animations, one with VP Hair, and below the VP Hair folder a VP Hair-MAT folder.
Then I plunked this construction into my main PPro 2010 Runtime and fired up the program.
Not only did PPro 2010 "see" the .HR2 and PZ2 files nested in the Character library, it also applied them flawlessly.   What a great feature!  Have any of the other versions of Poser been able to do this?
I can see there may be some complications involving saving files in "foreign" formats nested below folders, but this single feature  solves one of my biggest gripes about Poser's Library system - having to scatter MATs, props, and pose files for a given product willy-nilly all over the library structure and then having to remember what and where support files are for a given project.
Is this something everyone else already knew about, and I'm just late to the party? or is it something new in PPro 2010?
I LIKE it!

It's new in Poser 8 and Pro 2010.

Funny this just came up in another thread yesterday and I wrote that this was possible. Nobody seemed to know about it.

I did not purchase Poser 8 because, according to a message from smith-micro support, the library was still forced to have the same inefficient structure that it used for more than a decade. If I wanted to arrange the files any way I want I would have to use the favorites and that may not work if the library is too large because of memory constraints. Since I do not use the renderer, Poser 8 was no different than Poser 6 for my purposes.

So was this feature added to Poser 8 after the recent updates? If it is really in Poser 8 I may upgrade.

FlyerX

Discussion of this feature was here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2797921

Quote - I did not purchase Poser 8 because, according to a message from smith-micro support, the library was still forced to have the same inefficient structure that it used for more than a decade. If I wanted to arrange the files any way I want I would have to use the favorites and that may not work if the library is too large because of memory constraints. Since I do not use the renderer, Poser 8 was no different than Poser 6 for my purposes.

So was this feature added to Poser 8 after the recent updates? If it is really in Poser 8 I may upgrade.

FlyerX

It was there from day 1. Perhaps what they meant was that the library didn't offer a way for you to actually do the rearranging. You have to use your file explorer to do it. But it was built in to allow this from the start.

Quote - Discussion of this feature was here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2797921

I had seen that thread, but there were only a couple of posts in it at the time - very interesting stuff.
There are several things I really like about the PPro 2010 library interface - far more to like than I can find to quibble about in fact.  The main thing I would wish for is the ability to open multiple instances of the library at a time.  I find having a copy of P3d0 open at the same time for browsing and searching without losing my place in the library structure.  Drag-and-drop seems to work from the P3d0 interface, too, up to a point.  A couple of hours into a session that option just stops working, and after that I have to use the main library to navigate to the assets that I find with P3d0.

I am REALLY liking this nested library feature!

. . .Really liking it!

 OK.. I have Poser 8 and I haven't got a clue of what it is I'm apparently missing.. could you PLEASE post a screenshot? (granted, I'm rather drunk so that may impact on my level of comprehension right now but I'm just not sure what this feature is or does..)

I'm not sure if it's what you're talking about but basically Poser will read the files correctly no matter what folder it's in now. For example with Miki1020 they put some conformers(CR2) in the props folder and Poser reads them just fine. This change came about in either Poser 6 or 7. Have fun.  ^.^