jcrous opened this issue on Jun 09, 2008 · 8 posts
jcrous posted Mon, 09 June 2008 at 12:00 PM
I have another runtime question that arrises when Poser 7 crashed this weekend by loading a morph target to an incompattable figure. Poser could not started after that and I had to re-installed every thing, and I am still installing.
I am installing every single product to its own directory in a common directory:
C:3D LibraryHair_ZolaRuntime..............(all files in the appropriate directories)
All files are in the corresponding directories for the Zola hair product for example.
Now in the future I can within seconds find the Zola hair product in the 3D Library directory on my C; drive if I for any reason would like to uninstall. I can also re-install Poser and just draw in the directory again.
I do this for all my products and freebies.
The problem that I have is the way Poser, and due the the un-uniformaty of developers to organise everything the same way, organise where the icons lay. Some figures you can find under character and some under Pose and some with a ! in front, etc.
Currently I copy for example the Morgan figure's icons in a directory Morgan and all her Mat files in a subdirectory Mat and Pose and Face and Props and Morphs, etc. This Morgan directory I move to Poser 7 RuntimeLibrariesCollectionsFemalesV4Morgan. All the V4 figures will be under FemalesV4 and all Hair products will be in each directory under Hair, etc.
I can now only go to Collections and find everything exactly as I want it. I can also find everything
immediately where I have put it because it is logical, and not the chaos that is caused by installing all content into Poser itself. There is however one problem and that is the fact that I have duplicated the icon files and their fellow files. Is there a way to organise the icons without duplicating them? This way unfortunately wastes space but it is logical and cause no frustrations.
I have asked this question previously but nobody in all the forums understood me and only answered how to do the first part on how to call a directory to appear in Poser.
Regards
Johan