Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Cleaning up my Poser folder, do's and dont's...

cyber-organic opened this issue on Mar 24, 2002 ยท 8 posts


EricTorstenson posted Sun, 24 March 2002 at 10:27 PM

I'm anything but an expert, but I am one of those people that will tinker with things until they break (and then tinker some more until it is unbroke:) As far as directories go, here is what I have found: * materials generally seem to work no matter where you put them (as long as the extension (ie .bmp or .jpg) matches what is found in the poser file and they are still under the runtime:textures directory) * Geometries are very picky. You can open the poser file (cr2, pz2 etc) and manually change them (to a new place) but if you open the file in poser and it can't find the obj, you might lose your work, or at least be unable to open the object) -- Be very careful regarding your geometries folder * Poser files are very flexible. You can put pz2 files under camera's and faces (as long as you rename them to what ever the files normally found within the tree, such as changing the name scaryvicky2.pz2 to scaryvicky2.cm2) This allows you to reduce your pose folder, but can be time consuming if you don't have any file renaming tricks available. To make things more complicated, I keep all pz3 and morph geometry files completely outside of my poser directory. It allows me to keep the size of that beast to a minimum (if you can call 6gigabytes minimum) If you are running out of space, look into MOR files. If you are like me, you have lot's of millinium figures with small modification (downloaded morphs or one's you've made yourself, or maybe even characters you downloaded free or by purchasing). You will be surprised how much disk space these can provide you. Do a search in the forum for MOR files (maybe there is a tutorial out there? When I clean house (and it looks like it is about time), I usually don't delete anything immediately. I move it to another drive (or folder) and make sure everything is still working before I delete. This does require that you have more disk space than you currently are using. Hope this is what you were looking for, eric