FranOnTheEdge opened this issue on Dec 20, 2005 ยท 22 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Tue, 20 December 2005 at 6:19 PM
Hi, I have what feels like trillions of directories added to Daz's list of where to look for stuff, but most of the stuff I actually have is very scattered, and most of it just doesn't show up in Daz at all... even stuff that USED to show up just a little while ago. Like I made a gun in wings - exported it as an .obj file and posed the girl with it... yet a few days later when I went to get the .obj file for the gun again - so that the guy could have one too - the gun.obj was suddenly nowhere to be found. I can see it with Explore, but not Daz. So I'm thinking that maybe if I can put object files in just a few places, and get rid of directories that Daz doesn't need to look in, then maybe Daz will be able to see the gun... and other things that I need now and then. But I don't want to put ALL the objects in just ONE folder - they are curently sorted into categories, i.e. "Architectural" for buildings, arches, pipes, corridors and walls etc, "Sci-Fi" for guns, space stations, spacecraft, monorails etc, "Containers" for Ink bottles, Wine glasses, bowls and dishes, "Industrial" for Oil Drums, Bulkhead lights, switches etc "Towers" for Ruins, Hotels, Causeways, Medieval Castles... and so on and so forth. So I really don't want to lump all those together if I can help it - I'd never be able to find anything. But what about all the runtimes etc? PROBLEM 1: I don't know how to STOP Daz from looking at certain folders. PROBLEM 2: I know that Daz only likes some sorts of folder, or that some stuff will only work in Daz if it's in certain folders... like "Runtime". But there is more than 1 "Runtime" folder. (every time you download something it seems to create yet another Runtime folder when it installs - are they ALL necessary?) PROBLEM 3: how do I know which "Runtime" directories are actually necessary, and which ones can be amalgamated into just the one??? SO... is there some sort of tutorial somewhere on how to do this sort of housekeeping for Daz?
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