Quote - > Quote - FANTASTIC! Thank you so much. This is much easier for me than the manual. This will keep me busy for a long time.

 

You're welcome.

The essay is very old. I did it before V4 came out.   If you find any links that are broken, please post the broken link and I'll see if I can find a fixed one for you.

I decided to do external Runtimes based upon your information. I have an extra hard drive that I don't mind putting a lot of stuff on to.

So, do you end up having a Runtime for each chararcter (morph?) or do you have one for each main character, like M4 and make characters based on him as children but in the same Runtime?

If you make an M4 Runtime, and make all of the variations into their own Runtime, will the variations work once you load Michael? I guess what i am asking is if it is Ok to take parts for one character from various Runtimes that are not related structurally?

I tried the first one. I have Zane as a zip. So I extracted it to a temp folder, then picked the various folders with the same name in the template and moved each of the Zane folders to their corresponding place in the template. For instance,  If there was an empyy Runtime in the Template, I deleted it and moved the Runtime for Zane into its now empty spot. There were folders in Zane that did not have corresponding folders in the template so I moved them to the same relative path they had in the extraction.

When is it Ok to change the name of a folder and when it is taboo? Is it only the direct children of the Runtime folder that have to keep their original names?

It seems weird to me that a body variation (is this a morph?) should be in the Pose folder instead of in the character folder, but they are sometimes, right?

I was able to load Zane after loading Michael 4, but not easily. I had to try severl files before one of them worked. There were Rem files, and other various extensions, I don't remember which one finally worked, But, even then, his little black shorts stayed on very dimmly for awhile.  I added a chair prop and moved Zane over to put his hand on the chair. Then, I stopped, worn out.

Joey