232bird opened this issue on Mar 22, 2011 ยท 18 posts
lmckenzie posted Thu, 24 March 2011 at 9:43 PM
A neat idea and very concisely implemented. I use Acadia's approach for installing content, though for various reasons, I leave the original archive structure as it is. Eventually, I plan to record install information in my archive database to allow one click uninstallation - though, like her, I seldom uninstall anything :-) I know there are some Poser install utilities that do this, but I haven't tried any of them.
P3DO provides a good visual catalog of runtime contents. In the detail view, it will even list the geometry and texture files associated with a .cr2 etc. The main imitation, especially if you move/rename files is that you don't know where all the associated MAT/MTL files etc. AFAIK, are unless you record that information at install time, either in the archive or by some other means.
If you ever encounter the need to add sorting/querying etc. to your projects, look at SQLite, an excellent database that has a command line interface which would probably work well in a batch environment. http://www.sqlite.org/
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