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That's the most sensible suggestion I've seen in this whole thread!!! If this were Facebook I'd have clicked on the Like link!

Really?! Because that's what I've been advocating from the get go. I guess I haven't been very clear. Maybe "certification" was the wrong word; it was one I borrowed from MicroSoft.

As obm890 rightly states, the core of all of this is nothing more than a clearly defined set of standards, guidelines, conventions - whatever you want to call them.

When I was doing programming work, the better run shops all had some set of standards regarding coding, naming conventions etc. While these standards were never entirely satisfactory to everyone, everyone agreed that any standard was better than no standard at all, but that's what we have right now with Poser - no standards. To say that merchants are free to come up with their own standards is a little misleading. It would be more accurate to say that they are obligated to come up with their own standards. I suspect that most merchants would be delighted to have a set of clearly defined standards to follow.

Earlier today I was at the Dimension 3D site looking at some of the tools they have there, and I realized that almost everything we have been talking about on this thread could be automated, and in fact probably has been automated. See, e.g., the Poser File Organizer and the Runtime Repair tools. So what I'm suggesting is very simple and very easy to follow and very easy to check. The hard part will be in putting the list together.

As I said earlier, it would be nice if SM or Renderocity took the lead with this, but, really, anyone could do it. Remember - any standard is better than no standard at all. No matter what the standards are, there will be those who will object and often they will have very valid reasons for their objections. That's just the nature of the beast. Of course, users could still reorganize and rename everything to their hearts' content.

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OS: Windows 10 64-bit, Poser: 10