basicwiz opened this issue on Jan 20, 2012 · 27 posts
grichter posted Fri, 20 January 2012 at 10:33 AM
Quote - CR2Editor is free, IIRC. You can also do the same thing with a good text editor.
Now, the million dollar answer, structure. Poser was set up with several categories to separate the different components of you content cohesively. Easier to click on your library tab and find that all your CR2 files are under figures where they should be. But think of it this way, you have a kitchen drawer for your spoons, knives and forks. There are smaller compartments to separate each item, one for spoons, another for knives, and still another for forks. You keep this organized this way, you know where everything is located. Now, take away the compartments and mix everything up in the drawer. Next time you look for a fork, you have to dig down to the bottom of the drawer for a damn eating utensil. And you're hungry as hell.
See my analogy.
hborre no I don't see your analogy. As Superman, you should have x-ray vision so even in a mixed drawer you should be able to see-find exactly what you are looking for. :biggrin:
More and more content is coming with scripts, and pmd's and even object or textures files in the folder where the figure or prop is located which all create file path issues if the user-buyer wants to move things around. Another part of the problem is the naming of the folders they are located in aren't the same as the name of the purchased content or the name of the figure folder is way different then the materials, pose or props folder names. Or they come with the dreaded ! at the start of the folder name. If they placed the stuff in the proper geometries or texture folders and the morphs in the unwritten, but what has pretty much become a standard, the "morphs" folder, then the user-buyer of said content would be free to rename the folder to names that make sense to themselves or allow us mere mortals to move the content to the knives, forks or spoons drawers if we so desired and everythig would just keep working. Rather simple standards. And yes when required I do mass search and replace on various files with a text editor to correct or change the path names after I move geometires or pmds for the most part and placed them were they should have been in the first place to give me maximum flexibility as to where I can place content.
Gary
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