My Final DIM Solution: I Cheated

ArtAngel

Petercat said:

cherpenbeck said:

I keep a catalog of promo images also, but sometimes the promo name doesn't match the content library name.

I do the same but I make folders that make sense.EG: characters with subfolders, !G1F !G1M !G2F !G2M Fairies, Sea Creatures etc.,  I change the product  folder name to what makes sense eg Michael 8 G8M- Whatever Dude, and Michael 8 G8M - Some Other Dude. For the product page screenshot I put a  _00 at the end. If I want to see all G2Ms I just do a search in the G2M folder for _00 and voila I get all the visual stimulators.

Edit. Checking out. Goodnight John Boy.

Ron Knights

ArtAngel, I totally agree.

Gator

Ron Knights said:

Actually I meant just what I said. You can call it semantics if you want. But it seems we agree that it can be a pain to sort things out. Now if you'll pardon me, I still have another few hours trying to find some of DAZ's scattered content before I might be able to actually Make Art!

If you want any chance of change, need to blame the right people.  From working in IT, I can tell ya if the DIM folks read this thread, or got a ticket would shrug their shoulders and say "not a DIM problem, a user problem" and move on.  

 

I know I have catching up to do, bought plenty that I haven't installed yet since I need to organize the library.

Gator

ArtAngel said:

I think it would help of Daz made the artists drop the vanity product names and had a feature in Daz to search by artist using the meta data because maybe we are looking for First Bastion or Z or Ironman or Sickle... I also think Daz organization would iomprove if the artists named the textures "whatever name the product was, than the model series than the cool name artist created,  eg: Sleepwear for Hot Nights G3F - Cooling Down, so if I was looking for sleepwear , Cooling Down would populate. So I bought an outfit, Blazing Saddles G3F then Blazing Saddles G3F - Buckaroo would be some texture for it. I always manually download the files into folders in a naming convention that make sense to me.I feel Daz should have a tighter control, a chokehold on namimg conventions and than maybe DIM would be a shade brighter. I can't tell you how many times I have searched for an item and never found it, but later while searching for a snake, found someting totaly unrelated to the search because the name (unsuited to the product) triggered the find.  Naming conventions should be hey this is the product for this model or sderies, -  plus some other unrelated briliant name.  I have found some bizzare results and did multiple head shakes and thought who the F**k would ever expect to find that in this  search. If Daz incorporated naming conventions and standards than there would be predictabilty and the probabiltiy that DIM would work better. Without predictability how can you program any hypothesis? How can you sort the disorderly and why should it be our job?

There's already a number of things available.  Like tags for instance.  Perhaps the simplist would be to have the SKU tagged into the product, or the exact title name.  By gawd, if the product is "Super Cool Dress for Genesis 8 Females" don't name the folder/and or product name something else like "Artist X's Awesome Dress."

Daywalker Designs

scott762_948aec318a said:

ArtAngel said:

I think it would help of Daz made the artists drop the vanity product names and had a feature in Daz to search by artist using the meta data because maybe we are looking for First Bastion or Z or Ironman or Sickle... I also think Daz organization would iomprove if the artists named the textures "whatever name the product was, than the model series than the cool name artist created,  eg: Sleepwear for Hot Nights G3F - Cooling Down, so if I was looking for sleepwear , Cooling Down would populate. So I bought an outfit, Blazing Saddles G3F then Blazing Saddles G3F - Buckaroo would be some texture for it. I always manually download the files into folders in a naming convention that make sense to me.I feel Daz should have a tighter control, a chokehold on namimg conventions and than maybe DIM would be a shade brighter. I can't tell you how many times I have searched for an item and never found it, but later while searching for a snake, found someting totaly unrelated to the search because the name (unsuited to the product) triggered the find.  Naming conventions should be hey this is the product for this model or sderies, -  plus some other unrelated briliant name.  I have found some bizzare results and did multiple head shakes and thought who the F**k would ever expect to find that in this  search. If Daz incorporated naming conventions and standards than there would be predictabilty and the probabiltiy that DIM would work better. Without predictability how can you program any hypothesis? How can you sort the disorderly and why should it be our job?

There's already a number of things available.  Like tags for instance.  Perhaps the simplist would be to have the SKU tagged into the product, or the exact title name.  By gawd, if the product is "Super Cool Dress for Genesis 8 Females" don't name the folder/and or product name something else like "Artist X's Awesome Dress."

That would probably become "Super Cool Dress", since the default install location of the user facing files would be under People -> Genesis 8 Female -> Clothing.

ArtAngel

scott762_948aec318a said:

There's already a number of things available.  Like tags for instance.  Perhaps the simplist would be to have the SKU tagged into the product, or the exact title name.  By gawd, if the product is "Super Cool Dress for Genesis 8 Females" don't name the folder/and or product name something else like "Artist X's Awesome Dress."

Good Point - especially tagging. I love, love, love the category option and use it. I agree tagging is great but I do my tagging outside of Daz because I'm afraid one of these updates and poof it may disappear.

I only change the names on the external drive that houses my manual downloads,  I have set up preferred download locations in DIM, but I do not change DIM created folders within that location, I fear insanity would evolve if I didn't let Dim do it's thing. I also have preferences for Daz Studio content management set up. One PC houses the content 'library' on an external drive, whereas on the other it lives on the C drive.

When I do change the names or products or folders it is on a diffferent external assets drive. Nothing to do with DIM or the installed content. In my wardrobe clothes folder (keep footwear in a separate folder), on the assets external drive, I keep the first original name of the product as is and if and when I buy an add on for it, I append the  product addon name to the first product name. Some texture artists do this already by calling the product 'original name textures'. The problem is when three or more texture items are available,  such as in The Dark Passion add ons, PAs have to invent a new name. 

I attached an example of what makes logical sense to me. I think Skullways is a brilliant name, not one I would have thought to search for,  and may forget 4500 products down the road.