Penguinisto opened this issue on Aug 21, 2003 ยท 26 posts
Penguinisto posted Thu, 21 August 2003 at 5:17 PM
Having just re-organized my 9GB Runtime pile (again), I'd like to see a more consistent directory naming scheme (and yes, while not everyone is guilty, the majority are in one portion of this or another.) First off, for the love of Heaven, forget the ego-stroking in your directory packaging ...please. It isn't marketing, it merely means one more tedious step in keeping the pile of directories manageable. Let me lay out some examples here. If you have Vicky 1/2 clothing for sale, put the .cr2's in a universally locateable directory named, say: "...charactersVic1-2_Clothing", and not in some ego-pumped indecipherable name designed to 'grab attention' or 'get to the top of the list', like: "...characters~~|^_^|~~!!!1!aaaMy_Ultimate_Kick_Ass_Vikki_Bondage_Plate-Armor_d00dz!", Or even worse, stop doing something like: "...charactersUberMerchant's__Goodies", which gives me absolutely no freakin' clue as to the contents while scrolling through an already gawdaful-long list of stuff within Poser. If you're hawking a pair of Boots for Mike, wouldn't it make more sense to put the .cr2 files in "...charactersMike_Shoes" or some other universally agreed-upon naming convention? Hell, I'll be more than happy to donate my directory listings if that helps - it's organized into names like "Characters-Vicky" for all my generic Vicky people, "Characters-Anime" for Aiko and other Anime-like folks, and "Closet-PT" to denote that the contents are clothes for the PT Mil Girls. Weird outfits and costumes go into "Closet-V2-Costumes". Hell, you can even create something like "Closet-V2-intimate" for that bondage thingy I made-up earlier in the post, and chuck in lingerie, stockings, underwear, etc in the same place. All it would take is for folks to get together and start up a list of agreed-upon directories... the merchants who use it will get a boost from those of us sick of wranging monster runtime directories, and those that don't had better be real good at making stuff, but at least the buyer knows where he/she can chuck the relevant files to organize thing after downloading. (shrug) - I couldn't care less about the Geometries Directory (rarely see 'em in the first place) or the Textures Directory (I can use search for that then browse to the specific textures when setting up them up anyway.) There are very few merchants I'll buy from more than once anymore and willingly re-organize the Character or Pose files into something readable... I have to scroll like a mofo as it is through the directory list... please stop making it worse. Finally, how about doing something about the README files already? I don't want Yet Another Subdirectory With Some Guy's Name On It packed with a single tiny text file - do what the clueful merchants do and use ...runtimeReadme for that. From now on, I specifically hunt for and obliterate README files that aren't parked in that one spot, and if I buy something that may overwrite someone else's README because the two are named the same, I just let it happen. While you're at fixing the README's, just use the name of the item as the title of the readme - nothing sucks worse than having to find out whether or not I can use something commercially or privately on a lcoal job when I don't know which friggin' "readme.txt" out of thousands will actually contain the relevant information for the one item I want to know about. whew Gad, that sounded rather PMS-y, didn't it? At least I finally got it off my chest... and I suspect I'm not alone here. There will be problems in agreeing on a list of directories and actually getting merchants to stick with it, but a guy can dream, right? :) /me gets off of soapbox now... /P