Digital Art Zone

I would like to see someone make a plugin that would scan zip files and create metadata from them.
Presumably, metadata is a standardized format and it shouldn’t be to hard to script/code something that would search a zipped or unzipped runtime/file structure for relevant data and then send that info to the correct place.
I would love to be able to install a non-Daz product and then actually be able to FIND it in DS4!

Zigrafix has been toying with something like this. I’m sure she’ll pop up in here soon enough ...

This would be great. Even if it just made a basic version of the metadata and you could just edit to your specific preferences.

There are far too many steps involved in creating custom metadata for it to be a productive and worthwhile exercise for runtimes full of older/non DAZ content.

There is a Script to speed up the creation of the Scene ID’s
And you could create a script to read where you placed the items in your Content Manager.

It is the Type and Compatibility that would be an issue.

Type is used is several places and everything needs to have a Type, the more refined the better.
In 4.5 Type is used to put the Flags on the thumbnails.
It is also used to warn you of a possible conflict, you are putting two shirts on ActorX.
And it may be being used for other functions, we don’t see on the UI.

Compatibility is the more important of the two and I’m not sure there is a clean way to automate that process.

I’m not saying it couldn’t be done, just I can see it.

Haslor

It sounds like a script could automate a lot of the gruntwork, however.