Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Free Item for you, and thanks to all for your support

Syyd opened this issue on Nov 10, 2001 ยท 41 posts


Colm_Jackson posted Sat, 10 November 2001 at 5:40 PM

Hi welcomesite, Thanks for the feedback. It is very helpfull. What we will do is put a message on the download page of the freebees informing people that this is what the installer does. We are also compiling a site FAQ regarding installation matters. There is 'browse' function to choose where you would like to install the product. You don't really even need to install it to a poser runtime directory if you don't wish too. There is also an option to install or not install the 'Right Hemisphere' information by ticking or unticking the relevant checkbox. I think for future installers it might be of advantage to the user to choose if they would or would not like to have the readme and license installed to the programs menu. The problem that you are having with your poser trying to find the textures is caused by not using the browse funtion in the installer which would have given you the option to install the product to the correct location. The metacreations/Curiouslabs different paths actually make no difference to how poser files work. Once they are inside the 'Runtime' directory Poser will take care of the rest including finding textures. The browse function has been included in the installer specifically because there are at least 3 different installation paths in Poser4 versions. We chose to use Poser 4.03 installation path as it is the most recent. To the best of my knowledge the browse function is pretty much standard in most installers on the Windows platform. It may be of advantage for us to offer a simple Zip download as well as the installer. We opted not to use the add/remove due to problems that other companies have had with it removing there entire Poser installation. I think it is pretty much standard practice among most of the other community stores not to use add/remove. Thank you all for your feedback. It certainly helps us set up future installers to what the user needs and doesn't need.