Dareshiranu opened this issue on Dec 22, 2016 ยท 7 posts
Dareshiranu posted Thu, 22 December 2016 at 11:38 PM
I'm trying right now to reinstall all my content (Renderosity that is) in an attempt to make it more visible/actually work in the Smart Content pane.
The main problem as I see it is that there is no uniformity to any of the vendor's archive file structures. Some have a 'My Library' in them, others a 'content' directory and yet others just a 'runtime'. And when I unzip the various archives I get the directories either raw into the subdirectory I'm unzipping in: data, with the usual Daz3D directory and various artist directories and subfolders, But I also get a content directory that duplicates that same thing with all the rest of the subfolders, and a data that does something similar. And a DS-content, and Daz Studio with a My Library subfolder (that doesn't even count the My Library at the root level).
There are so many of these different structures arbitrarily chosen apparently because each artist has their own idea of what the ideal file structure should be or something. Can I just mingle all the related subfolders of like types under a single main directory? or can I leave them all as is and will smart content be able to do a nested search to find all these various assets properly despite their chaotic organization?
I ask this because I have 50 gb of the stuff and I really don't think installing each and every one of the things individually is going to work for me. It's taken a week (off and on) to compile them all into moderately discreet alphabetical directories and then merge them into one larger whole. Now I'm just looking to make it so they're all in the right place, or at least mostly.