gmm2 posted at 9:11AM Fri, 08 January 2016 - #4247864

ssgbryan posted at 8:04PM Thu, 07 January 2016 - #4247859

Material .pz2s were a hack for Poser 4. The issue for me is the pose folder becomes overloaded. That's why we have the Materials folder. Put materials in the materials folder & poses in the pose folder. Like the LAST 6 VERSIONS of Poser are set up.

Furthermore, DazStudio has been able to read material .mc6 files since the release of DS 4.5.

BTW, in Daz Studio, every single file type has been stuffed into the pose subfolder. Unscrewing the file structure in DS is why I can't take DS seriously.

Thank you for the explanation. I'm not really convinced that any of those reasons are good enough to not use .pz2s, but I'll definitely consider making .mc6s for my future products if that's what customers prefer (and that seems to be the case).

I don't like materials in the pose folder but it really is not an issue as once a month I just run a script from Netherworks that moves and converts the materials in the pose folder to the materials folder. Takes a minute or so as it is on a runtime basis and as I usually only buy for a couple of my runtimes each month, rather than the full forty odd, it is a minor inconvenience, much less in fact than the annoyance of looking for a material in a bloated pose folder.

My bigger concern when I do buy is the quality of the materials in the first place and whether the product was made for the later versions of Poser. For instance I would not buy a character these days if there was no Sub Surface Scattering texture even though I could use Ezyskin to create one.

 

 

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