Bendinggrass opened this issue on Jun 04, 2012 · 33 posts
joel2 posted Tue, 19 June 2012 at 7:53 PM
Hi,
I'm running Poser 7. I have had two orgainzation problems, one of which (content organization) I have solved (sort of), the other still pending.
The thing about poser that has always bothered me is that there are so many steps clicks) to everything you want to do. The Library is confusing, as sometines clothing ends up in props, or Poses, or figures. And with so much content specific to each character, the steps to add and then dress a character can be very complex and time consuming.
Then I discovered "Collections" where you can organize different types of content into a single set of folders that are specific to a specific character. The only problem here is that inside Poser, transfering each item from the Library (you're not actually transfering them, but rather making a copy in the collections folder) to the collections is a very time consuming process when you dozens or hundreds of items to put into the collection.
However, I found the Collections folder inside the library folder in Runtime, and realized that I could create all my sub folders (figures, hair, poses, etc.) and then copy the items I wanted "in mass" to the collections.
First set-up you folder and subfolder structure in the Collections folder in runtime (using regular windows functions). Go into the folder holding what you want to transfer, select the items, right click and choose COPY (do not drag and drop as this will remove the item from the regular library folder and screw you up BAD!).
Then paste the copied items into the collection subfolders. Now I can open the collections, and everything I need for say V3 is right there.
However, the problem I have yet to solve is that of the Body Part Morph Menus.
Again, using poser involves selecting the character, and then the part of the body you want to work on. This opens the the morphs for that body part. My issue is the click-click-click and scroll and click (etc) required for me to get at and adjust all of the body parts I need. If I am working with two characters and making fine adjustments between the characters, my clicking finger is hurting by the time I'm done. The sad part is that I find that I use say a few dozen morphs, yet with all of the morph injections there are dozens of morph choices I need to go through each time I enter that body part.
Just as with collections, is there a way to create a custom morph menu where I can group specific (multi-body-part) morph wheels that meet my needs???
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Thanks