Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Readme's, File Types and File Heirarchies

starmage opened this issue on Sep 01, 2005 ยท 13 posts


starmage posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 12:39 AM

Hi All I must admit my Runtime folder is a mess (don't know who's isn't?). :( I don't actually have much installed but it already seems a bit whacked. Part of the problem has been that different merchants use different folder heirarchy systems. Some put them in a folder of their own Merchant name, some put them under the name of the figure and occasionally some I don't know where they go to at all! I've also noticed someone accidentally recursed the texture folder to "Textures" rather than "textures" so now I have two texture directories. And my one personal gripe? Merchants who put special characters in front of their folder names to make it get to the top of your folder tree which is putting the alphabetical ordering out of whack for me! Grrrrr! :( Anyway, is there like somewhere that goes through a list of setting things up in a zip/rar for others to install? I realise there are bound to be differences but I have like 4 different types of Folder Heirarchies in my Runtime directory. Also what file types do most people use for textures? I've been using .bmp's but I realise these are somewhat big. Should I be using something else? Do people prefer a html or txt format Readme? Both are viewable on any system really but the html offers a lot more versatility (but it's also bigger).

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