Forum: The MarketPlace Wishing Well


Subject: Better file structure PLEASE!!!!!!!

LBAMagic opened this issue on Jun 11, 2010 · 17 posts


LBAMagic posted Fri, 11 June 2010 at 6:59 PM

My wish(es) to Poser content creators.

AA) Please place your poser files under a folder that has your Market "vendor name". This includes Texture files and Geometry files. This way I can find your product files easily by vendor name AND I will know which vendor to credit in my gallery images.

Example of good structure:
:Runtime:Geometry:Vendor_Name:Product_Name:Product.OBJ
:Runtime:Libraries:Character:Vendor_Name:Product_Name:Product.CR2
:Runtime:Textures:Vendor_Name:Product_Name:Product.jpg

This would also avoid the rare instance of unzipping your files into the same folder name already created by another content creator. Doesn't happen often but it's a pain to sort out the files when it does.

BB) Please don't place all your files in one folder. This makes it impossible for us humble content purchasers to reorganise our runtime Libraries folders. Geometries should be in the Geometries folder and Textures should be in the Textures folder.

Example of bad structure:
:Runtime:Libraries:Character:Product_Name:Product.OBJ
:Runtime:Libraries:Character:Product_Name:Product.CR2
:Runtime:Libraries:Character:Product_Name:Product.jpg

CC)  In your files please delete any file path before the the word ":Runtime:". This is a particular problem for Daz Studio (my art  weapon of choice. LOL.) . DS is specific how it follows a file path, so anything before ":Runtime:" stuffs it up.

My limited experience of Poser shows that it slows down loading a file if the file path is wrong, but unlike DS it eventually finds the file; possibly by ignoring everything before the word ":Runtime:", but I'm not too sure on that.

Anyhoot please HELP us humble DS users in this small matter (possibly taking only 1 hour to fix by using a Poser file edit program like Dimension3D's Poser File Editor).

Thank you.