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Organization of content

CheetahkaCheetahka Posts: 168
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As I buy products or get free content from other websites and forms how do you organize all this stuff. Granted the Dazz installer will put it in there for you but it can be a real pain 2 find content and use it on a different character especially when it doesn't appear in the smart content. Clicking on the content tab and trying to find what you want can be tedious at best as well. Is there a way to Cluster everything together when you buy it as a package or separate everything by generation or model? Also how do you recommend storing backups in case the product is not for sale anymore or available any suggestions on that set up as well?

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  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019

    Yes. Create your own Categories, and sort in everything once you have installed it. There are some good turials about that in the forum, but I have lost the link.

    As for content installation, I'd recomment installing third party content into its own folders. This is a Step-by-step about installing Non-DAZ content to DS, with images: http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/927004/#Comment_927004

  • JonnyRayJonnyRay Posts: 1,744

    Another trick I've started to do is to make additional copies of content. For instance, I'm mostly using Genesis 8 characters for my figures these days. But I know that hair for Genesis 2 and 3 figures will autofit to Gen8. So I just coped the folders and files from \People\Genesis 2 Female\Hair into \People\Genesis 8 Female\Hair. That way I don't have to go looking back through my previous generations for stuff that will work for Gen8.

  • dracorndracorn Posts: 2,345

    I have created a tutorial on categories - see the link in my signature.

  • CheetahkaCheetahka Posts: 168
    JonnyRay said:

    Another trick I've started to do is to make additional copies of content. For instance, I'm mostly using Genesis 8 characters for my figures these days. But I know that hair for Genesis 2 and 3 figures will autofit to Gen8. So I just coped the folders and files from \People\Genesis 2 Female\Hair into \People\Genesis 8 Female\Hair. That way I don't have to go looking back through my previous generations for stuff that will work for Gen8.

    If you copy your folders over doesn't that double up on all the files thus taking up a lot of extra hard drive space?
  • CheetahkaCheetahka Posts: 168
    dracorn said:

    I have created a tutorial on categories - see the link in my signature.

    I don't understand where is your signature I do not see the link.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,805
    cheetahka_cee5351f0f said:
    dracorn said:

    I have created a tutorial on categories - see the link in my signature.

     

    I don't understand where is your signature I do not see the link.

    If you look unbder the actual words of his post you should see a bunch of text, including

    Tutorials: Dracorn's Tips n Stuff  (1) Categorizing [Pg 1]; (2) 3Delight Portrait Studio & Lighting [Pg 1];  (3) Dramatic 3DL Lighting Tutorial; (3) Fitting Old Shoes to Genesis 8

  • CheetahkaCheetahka Posts: 168
    Richard Haseltine said:
    cheetahka_cee5351f0f said:
    dracorn said:

    I have created a tutorial on categories - see the link in my signature.

     

    I don't understand where is your signature I do not see the link.

    If you look unbder the actual words of his post you should see a bunch of text, including

    Tutorials: Dracorn's Tips n Stuff  (1) Categorizing [Pg 1]; (2) 3Delight Portrait Studio & Lighting [Pg 1];  (3) Dramatic 3DL Lighting Tutorial; (3) Fitting Old Shoes to Genesis 8

    oh I see them now, it just wasn't showing up on my cell. but It did at home pc.

  • lakotagirllakotagirl Posts: 30

    thanks richard for the tip to view smart content unchecked. and thanks dracorn for your categorizing tutorial. I spent the last few days categorizing all my stuff even the ones in lost and found. now almost evrything shows up in smart content and is musch easier to find when the whole folder is categorized.

  • JonnyRayJonnyRay Posts: 1,744
    cheetahka_cee5351f0f said:
    JonnyRay said:

    Another trick I've started to do is to make additional copies of content. For instance, I'm mostly using Genesis 8 characters for my figures these days. But I know that hair for Genesis 2 and 3 figures will autofit to Gen8. So I just coped the folders and files from \People\Genesis 2 Female\Hair into \People\Genesis 8 Female\Hair. That way I don't have to go looking back through my previous generations for stuff that will work for Gen8.

     

    If you copy your folders over doesn't that double up on all the files thus taking up a lot of extra hard drive space?

    Yes it does double them, but the files I'm copying are mostly just the .duf files. They aren't very big. They use the same geometry and texture files as the Gensis 2 versions so I'm not actually doubling disk usage. What is more of a pain is that when a content creator does an update to their product, I have to remember to manually copy the new files to the other folders as well.

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