It's not absurd and I've actually been thinking about how I might set it up for distributing my own stuff.

I am always tweaking and improving things. People are always trying to stay up to date with my shaders. Thousands upon thousands of people experience one or more of the following:

1. They don't know how to install shaders

2. They don't know how to update shaders

3. They don't know or have troubling unzipping shaders

4. They are unaware that I updated a shader and published new versions

5. They get confused when I post useful variations and then they mix them up and think they're using a particular variant but they're still using the first one they got.

Etc.

Now imagine a different world:

You install "Ted's Magic Cloud Runtime" software.

You activate it to synchronize to my "Bagginsbill-Freebie" runtime - everything I have ever published, already installed properly. Further, as I make new things, I put them in there.

The Magic Cloud software keeps your local copy local, but synchronized so that updates and additions that I put in my runtime show up in your copy automatically.

All you have to do is join the network once in a while and your copy will be updated and instantly ready to work in Poser because it is a full runtime - just like the ones you have now. It's local, not cloud based. The cloud part has to do with distribution, not storage.

I think people would absolutely love this.

 

---

Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)