DAZ_Rand opened this issue on Dec 09, 2011 · 1133 posts
kyoto_kid posted Sat, 10 December 2011 at 6:11 PM
Quote - Installers are simply our preferred method and we are within our rights to use the method we prefer. We have heard the request to do simple zip files and as I have already stated... and with all due respect... that is just not a direction we wish to go in. I would be happy to listen to any other ideas.
Quote - ...don't have them throw useless folders like "Templates", "Readme", "Data", etc. into the Studio "runtime" tree. It is an absolute mess compared to the Poser one and is so hapazardly organised.
Quote - None of those folders go into the Runtime folder (well, not sure about templates but they are usually a separate installer you can point where you like) - they go beside it. Some Renderosity and RDNA merchants, and many freebie makers, do put their readmes in the Runtime folder or in a sub-folder thereof. The Support folder for the metadata does go in the Runtime folder, however - possibly to make sure it isn't showing in the Content palette in DS3.
...please refer to image above.
These are a collection of screenshots from my Studio "Runtime" folder content tree in S3A. All of the blue highlighted selections are non-content folders (e.g. contain nothing that can be loaded into a scene) which are clearly the result of Daz installers as can be seen from the folder names. When I install content from Zip files, I do so manually by first extracting to a temp. folder and then moving the individual component folders (Geometries, Characters, Poses, etc.) into their proper locations. Templates, Readmes & the like go into separate folders outside of the Studio application.
Content "Data" folders, while important for the application, should not be visible anywhere in the Content tab.
This is just downright sloppy programming and I'm not even a programmer.
...forsaken daughter is watching you.
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