Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: I declare a moratorium on the following things:

Photopium opened this issue on Jun 05, 2010 · 106 posts


Digger1967 posted Tue, 08 June 2010 at 9:18 AM

Ok, well if were putting a moritorium on stuff, by all means lets put a moritorium on the following as well.

Vendors putting !, !! or worse yet !!! in front of your directory names for the poser runtime.  If I think your item is so gosh darned impressive that it should appear at the top of my runtime, I'll rename it accordingly.  I spent a lot of time in grade school learning the alphabet, and I'd like to get some actual use out of it - thanks.

Also using vanity naming conventions.  If your outfit is called say "Alice Dress" and the name of the directory in the Character section is "Alice Dress by Whoever" then why in the name of hades would you name the mat directory "Artist Who've I've Never Heard of MAT", or worse yet "My Third Party Texture Set with no mention of the outfit it's actually for MAT".  Ok, if I only have 3 or 4 mat file directories in that runtime, sure I'll track it down pretty easy.  But if your like most and have 30 or 40 mat file directories in that runtime, not having the name of the outfit directory and the name of the mat file directory at least somewhat related is a royal pain in the keester, and it's not like I'm going to remember which artist I bought the "Alice Dress" outfit from 6 months from now.  Same with the texture file directory names.  Finding them in Poser is possible but it's also a pain, so please for goodness sake try to name them something that actually has some relation to the name of your item, burying it under your artist name pretty much gaurantees I'll have to do some serious looking to find a specific texture or mat file I want to edit 3 months down the road when I've long since forgotten who I bought "Alice Dress" or "Mike's Mighty Pants" from.  Your a vendor of 3d artwork who I might have purchased one or two things from all total, your not a rockstar or someone famous who's name and works will be permantly etched into my conciousness.   Please start conducting yourself accordingly.

Ok, so that's not to say that you need to forgo using your artist name completely - but a directory called "Alice Dress by Vendor" is a heck of a lot easier to locate than a directory where I have Vendor Name as the main directory, then subdirectories underneath, same with your character/pose file directory names in the poser runtime. 

As to the overabundance of "skank wear" for V4, I guess I can't really blame the vendors for making what seems to sell the most.  I think that as a community the best way to combat this is with the ratings system - if you buy a product that is not skank wear and it's well made and useful, give the artist some really positive feedback.  Tell people why you like the product and that it's a good value for the money.

This gets those products noticed, and they start selling better.   Truth be told I don't think you'll probably see a huge shift in market forces anytime soon, but it's certainly worth the effort I think.  Just my 2 cents worth, as usual I could be wrong :)