Quality control? Typos in folders.
Rod Wise Driggo
Posts: 2,332
Well, I do organize my DAZ purchases via DIM. And I pick the products I use from the Content Library pane. No connect, no smart whatever.
So it would be great if all products would install properly. But instead I do get more and more duplicate folders due to typos. Here's a few. Wonder if those could be sorted out:
# Alien Queen and Borg (both G8F) from daveyabbo
Both installed to a new folder "character" instead of the common "characters"
# Abigail Hair for both G8F/G3F from Propschick
This one even created new main folders "Genesis 8 Females" and "Genesis 3 Females" under "people"
# Alternative Piercing Pack G8F from Neikdian
This one installs to a folder "Accesories" missing one "s"
# Elianecks Lights Package 3
This one comes as a "gift" installing in a folder "light presents"
Don't get me wrong. Typos happen. I don't blame any PA for them. But there should be quality management. And those typos listed are even in the readme's etc. I was told that one should not manually alter the DIM runtime but things like this keep on making the runtime hard to work with. So fixes would be appreciated.
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Well, those errors keep coming - and it seems they are more frequent lately.
Next thing is dForce Maid Outfit for Genesis 8 Female(s) from the Aiko 8 Pro Bundle and the dForce Maid Outfit Textures.
- The outfit installs to clothing/Maid Outfit but not the textures
- The additional textures install to clothing/Maid Dress
Does nobody check for those things?
Have you filed a ticket about this?
I put tickets in frequently for typos... then I move it myself. They take too long to fix if I wait for the store to correct it.
No, not yet. Would one ticket for all be sufficient? Single tickets for all of those things would take ages.
Yes I would think one ticket should be enough. It will give them the impetus to start looking for similar.
THIS! A thousand times this! I search for my products the same way and waste endless amounts of time tunneling down subdirectories that lead to empty folders or clicking on several variations of accessories, acessories, accesories, assessory, etc. Back in my Poser days I had pretty much handcrafted my directory structure and it was gloriously organized! This last PC OS and DAZ rebuild (and far, far, past using Poser any longer) while I LOVE DIM, I cringe at product developer typos that should have been caught in QA. Using DIM prevents me from just going in there and sorting it out because I know the next time there is a product update it will wipe out all my hard work, or worse recreate new, duplicate, erroneous entries.
WHEW! Glad I was finally able to get that off my chest! And as for ticketing, I always mean to, but am up to my eyeballs in whatever render I'm working on and stopping to submit a ticket gets lost in the frenzy of creating. Which means until I do submit tickets I hereby waive my right to COMPLAIN, so am here merely commenting. <wink, wink, grin>
I've already filed one for Abigail Hair.
Checking for correct folder structures can easily be automated, it doesn't take much to write some software that can do that. Probably true for certain other QA checks as well.
I'd like to see consistency in linking products with add-ons. There doesn't seem to be any naming convention for add-ons made with completely different names. Let's say I buy "Artis Diego Sullivan's Chef's Apron for Genesis 3 Female(s). What's with the parentheses? Ok, so then I see some attractive textures, probably made by 2 different artists, for the Chef's Apron. But, let's say I buy 2, one is named "Poppies of Quandar" and the other is named "Medieval Melodeez". When these are installed, I can't find them. One will be "Artist xyz-PQ" and the other will be "Artist abc-MMel. First place I try is Lost, and I immediately remove whatever the categories are assigned, and assign my own: generation, and wardrobe item. If the product names are this obscure, I will also add them as subcategories. I've found being able to remove arbitrary categories, and make my own has simplified looking for those products. I leave the file structure as installed, becasue I nearly destroyed my library trying to make 1 product's files sensible. With assigning my own categories, I save time, and also don't "forget" stuff that I can't find otherwise. Some of the Read Me's are helpful, if they provide the file name abbreviations, but many do not. When I realized I didn't have to live with the default Categories, it changed my whole library view. Now, if the naming causes the loading to be stopped because "can't find", when you are looking at, it gets back to OP's comment that there are typos. That's when I tried to "fix" something at the file location level, and my whole library went blank for a day. In that case, I gave up, and just do a drag and drop from the file location. Better than ruining my whole library.
I wold think separate tickets would be better so that each could be closed as the issue was fixed - multiple issues in a single ticket always runs the risk of one or more being missed.
That was quick - fixed in less than 2 days. And DIM actually removes the old wrongly named folders and everything, when updating.
Or the ones that put things in 'Texture' instead of 'Textures'.