Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Runtime hell

libernull opened this issue on Dec 13, 2003 ยท 13 posts


hauksdottir posted Sat, 13 December 2003 at 4:31 AM

As a followup, no reorganization and no product is going to help you untangle the mess unless you get organized yourself. Look over your collection of files and get a rough feeling for the sort of stuff you've amassed and then decide how to divide it into managable bites. It doesn't matter whether you organize by maker, by type of item, or by the figure it is for... for example PhilC's caftan for V3 could be filed under "clothing", under "stuff4V3", or under "PhilC"... choose a route and try to stick with it. Say that you decide to file all your props by type: weapon, plant, furniture, architecture and a year later realize that you've collected everything by Cooler: buildings, props, widgets, whathaveyou, and you also have wide-ranging stuff by Trekkiegrrrl and Little Dragon and Maclean and it occurs to you that if you wanted to find the morphing sheet that you'd look for the maker first and not under furniture. Or maybe you'll realize that you have a lot of stuff which falls into ethnic groupings: Japanese, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, and for scene-building determine that it would be easier to keep them grouped by area rather than clothes, props, rooms. You can always go back and rearrange. I start the organization while downloading. I attach the maker's name or the website at that time, too. (I'm soooo tired of props overwriting each other because they are all balled "old_book" or "candle01"... with the maker's name I have a better chance of keeping them straight.) I download into one of several folders: animal, character, lights, miscstuff, hair, territory, and then redivide the zips into further subcategories on my Mac. "Animals" has subfolders for horses, birds, cats, mechanimals, dinos... etc. Stuff gets unzipped and installed when I need it. I don't need a 40 gig Runtime with its bragging rights; I need to find and use things. So think about what you have or intend to purchase, and then think about the images you want to make. Decide how to arrange the first to most easily accomplish the second. HTH, Carolly