diogenese19348 posted at 11:02AM Tue, 02 February 2016 - #4252701

The data files (textures and geometry in Poser terms) have always been locked down - if you move them you break the scripts. The scripts themselves can be moved in most cases, and that is how I organize my content. What was always missing was shortcuts, ie pointers to the script files that could be read by the content library pane.

Frankly the downside to the system I use is any time a product is updated, I again need to figure out where I put the scripts, because If I don't I now have two versions of the same product in my library, one of which might not work correctly. I would have vastly preferred to leave the scripts alone and used pointers to them.

DAZ tries to get around that with the content manager database, but I have been using DAZ a long time, and frankly putting non-daz products in it is a pain, and in the early days DAZ managed to repeatedly break custom categories. From what I am hearing on their boards, they still are. They haven't managed to break my file organization yet.

Since they are allowing the use of shortcuts now, at least with their products, I will be happy to leave those scripts where ever the hell they plop them down because I am never going to look at that location.

And yes, I still think DAZ will drop encryption if it continually hurts sales. Just as the music business has. Where it doesn't hurt sales it stays in place.

I personally cannot see how encrypting 3D content can possibly help sales.

Actually drm didn't get dropped in music because of low sales. Piracy was less of an issue because the mechanism to get music was far easier to get on your device from the iTunes stores for $1 than scour websites for music that could potentially put viruses on your computer. This is true especially when you don't even have to go on the computer to get music, you just search on the device itself and you have the file in about 2 minutes. Video files are still encrypted from the store because the same hasn't occurred due to the size of video and the price of files can still be more expensive than finding a site to download them.