Tony_Stark posted at 1:56PM Mon, 09 November 2015 - #4237554

I think DAZ's biggest mistake was when they abandoned the individual installers and went to DIM. They totally bungled the whole thing. DIM never totally caught up with DAZ's change in folder structure. DIM still has zip files that put everything under the Content folder. Then DIM moves most stuff out of the Content folder as it's being installed. Just unzip a few of their install files and you'll see! DAZ failed to adopt any standard naming and placement guidelines. DAZ says you don't need to find something easily. Just use Smart Content or Search! Smart Content is dumb. It doesn't show everything I have.

I don't want my content Categorized. I don't want to fool with metadata. I just want to Make Art!

No offense, but I pretty much disagree with your entire statement. DIM has been widely adopted by far the majority of DS users and for many DIM takes a lot of the Database management side out of the equation for them, making it actually a lot easier to focus on making art. Which seems to be what you're asking for in your last statement? So really your issue with DIM is the folder arrangement behind the scenes, that most users would never actually see if they use Smart content to manage their content? But you choose to unzip and place your content manually because you don't like smart content, which causes you to have issue with the folder structure?

In effect Daz Connect will make folder naming conventions pretty much irrelevant for Daz3D content. As content management will be handled inline and be more flexible to personal preferences and arrangement, without needing to have the argument about whether that vanity folder is necessary or not. Smart content works alongside of your normal Content Library and makes it easier for most to build a scene without having to remember in what exact folder or the vendor name for that pair of shoes.

You could even argue, it's not Smart Content that is dumb it's your old content.

Here is a statement I made earlier in the thread:

As far as dumbing down the program base I do see a bit of conflict in how people say, I prefer to manage my own database of content in the OS. But you know what they usually complain about the most? "how vendors put things in their products into stupid folder structures." You think this would be giving them what they want right ;)