Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why do people insist on putting Mats in the Pose library?

AmbientShade opened this issue on Jun 18, 2014 · 107 posts


seachnasaigh posted Sat, 21 June 2014 at 3:27 PM

     [1]  Logical placement - When I first got Poser, silly me, I looked in the material library for files to change textures.  One of the old hands told me "They're in the pose folder."

     That made no sense to me.  In retrospect, I now understand why, but again, the time of the MATpose has passed.

 

     [2]  Even distribution of libraries.  The pose folder is bulging;  the purpose-built material library sits nearly empty.  Also logical identification by file type - it's not a pose. 

 

     [3]  Accumulation of garbage in a cr2.  Sometimes using MATposes repeatedly can incrementally add no-longer-used data in the cr2.  As I understand it, this occurs with improperly made MATposes but not with properly made MATposes.

 

     Regarding ReadMe files, Poser provides a place for them - shared documents > Poser Pro 2014 Content > Runtime > Readme.  I often find ReadMe folders created by products & freebies stored beside the runtime folder.  More often, the folder is properly within runtime, but they just couldn't bring themselves to spell it correctly.  I see readmes, read me, et cetera.

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