Quote - Hi All,

I'm new and am starting to figure out that installing all my content into 1 runtime was a huge mistake. I can no longer tell what items go with what models. Gonna have to redo from scratch I think.

Doing a little reading of the tutorials, it seems that I should have separate runtime folders for V4, Stephanie, The Girl etc. (True?)

My question is, what about the various versions of each? For example, do I need a separate runtime folder for V1, V2, V3 and V4? Or can all the Victoria stuff go into one runtime folder?

For non character specific items like furnature and assorted props, are there any guidelines?

 

Many thanks in advance.

Welcome to Poser.

I have my runtime setup as all figures having their own folders so each Vicky has her own folder. Even tho G4 is off the V4 mesh, she still gets her own folder. I've had to break down all my hair models to their proper names where sometimes the artist will put their name on the folder so it made it hard to find the hair. So I went through all my hair and labeled them with their proper names. Then I grouped those up into their own hair folder and then in the Pose folder I put the textures broken down in 6 folders by alpha order under their own "hair" folder [makes is so much easier when looking to change a hair color!!].

I have so many hair items [200+] that I spent an hour or so rendering quick images of a model with a hair item and created a image folder so when I'm looking for a hair I can look at that image folder and see what hair I want instead of spending hours looking thru the runtime for the right one. I'm thinking of doing that with clothing items too but that might be a bit much :)

I have folders in Props labled V4 props M4 props etc. In Poses is where you're really going to need to be 'strict' in your housecleaning, all the clothing, all the hair, all the poses just gets to be one huge folder. So that's where breaking it all down to their proper figures NOW will help you a few years down the road when you start getting 30-50gigs of stuff in your runtime :) So under the folder I created as "poses" in the Pose file group I will have folders tagged as V4 poses, M4 poses, Group poses are those pose groups that mercs make dealing with both figures and you can't really break them down...you could but more work. 

I had a Wing prop that I could never find each time I wanted it, so I created a folder called "wings" just for that purpose, so any wings I pick up go right to that folder. 

Just remember that when you add new content you need to do your housekeeping and put them in the folders you have created so you'll have a hair pulling chore to do every other month :)