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Organizing Companion Files

matttomeckomatttomecko Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in New Users

hey everyone. I just wanted to know an effective way of organizing companion files.
Should I keep them all in the same folder or separate them?
Right now, I am using 'Categories', but I am not sure I am organizing files in the most effective way.

Some of the file types are Ds, Mc, Duf, and a few others. How do you organize these?

Thank you! :)

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Are you talking about material presets? I usually use Categories and create a category underneath the category for the item, and label it Materials.

  • matttomeckomatttomecko Posts: 0
    edited January 2014

    do you create separate folders for poser and and daz studio? Do you keep them all in the same folder?
    Like poser hair in the same folder as daz hair? Should you just trash the'duf' files? I heard they are only for
    very early versions of daz studio. There are like two file types for poser too. what is the difference between them?
    Do the different types of files of content for poser have to further be categorized so that each folder includes only that file type?

    thanks for responding! Just a new user trying to get things straight!

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    matttomecko said:
    do you create separate folders for poser and and daz studio? Do you keep them all in the same folder?
    Like poser hair in the same folder as daz hair? Should you just trash the'duf' files? I heard they are only for
    very early versions of daz studio. There are like two file types for poser too. what is the difference between them?
    Do the different types of files of content for poser have to further be categorized so that each folder includes only that file type?

    thanks for responding! Just a new user trying to get things straight!

    You can combine the DS and Poser versions in categories. .duf is the new format for DS4..5+, so I use that when it's available. A lot of older items have the item itself in Poser format and material presets in DS format. Poser hair can be conforming (.cr2) or prop (.hr2 or .pp2) and can be kept in the same category. Poser items sometimes have material presets in both Materials (.mc6) and Pose (.pz2) -- if there aren't DS material presets in the DAZ Studio Formats section, the .pz2's sometimes have "sidecar" files indicated by a scroll icon in the upper left corner of the Poser icon, meaning that there's a DS version that gets used instead of the .pz2 when you apply it. Some newer items have DS sidecar files in the Poser Materials library.

    I have a category named zzzother (so it's always at the end of the list) that I move extra files I don't need into (such as Poser material presets when there are separate DS presets).

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