Input on Categorizing Content

IceDragonArt

Wasn't quite sure how to word this.  I'm going to be doing another webinar on categorizing content in Daz Studio.  I would like to know what questions people might have about content organization, specifics or general.  I did a broad overview in the last one with some detail, but would really like to get a bit more detailed in this one, but I'm not sure what peopel are interested in knowing or what someone might be aiming for in their own libraries.  I know what I'm looking to accomplish with mine, but I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons and ways that people might need to set their own up. Also interested in any problems people have when trying to organize content.

3Diva

There are so many different ways to categorize based on people's preferences and needs, so maybe just try and cover a wide range of ways people can go about organizing their content. 

One thing that I, personally, wish I had done differently is to put everything in five different base categories: one base category labelled "Utilites" where I'd put cameras, lights, poses, and shaders. And the other four base categories I'd name after the genres that mostly get rendered by me (modern, fantasy, sci-fi, and historical or olden times) and farther categorize them from there with sub-categories. Setting up sub-categories of clothing, hair, props, characters, environments, and vehicles in each of those 4 genre categories. I'd probably put weapons as a subcategory under props. Jewellery, hats, and other wearables as a subcategory under clothing. Characters and wearables would get their own sub-categories by generation (A3, V4, G1, G2, G3, G8).

I think that would have been an easier workflow, for me personally. 

The way I have it right now isn't bad but it makes it more difficult to find items that fit the genre or theme of the render I'm doing. Like right now to find a sci-fi outfit it's difficult as they're all mixed in with all the other genres of clothing. Right now the way I have it set up is Favorites >> Clothes Hair and Wearables >> Clothes >> G8F Clothes. The way I'd do it if I had to do it over is Favorites >> Sci-Fi >> Clothes >> G8F Clothes. That way I can spend my set-up time just in that one Sci-Fi folder instead of jumping around trying to find what I'm looking for in other places. That's just what I, personally, would have found easier. But the way I have it set up now, others might find easier. So yeah, keeping an eye on the idea that others would find different categorization systems more helpful, I'd probably just try to cover a small handful of different ways one MIGHT decide to organize their content. :)

In the end, whatever works best for you/the user is the most optimal way to do it, even if the same way would make things less easy on the next person. lol The key would be to get people to think about how they set up their scenes. Do they start with the idea of a specific genre in mind, or are they more inclined to set up a scene with just a single figure in mind and work the rest out as they go? Their own thought process in how they set out to build a scene will be the foundation of how best to organize their content. 

 

LaPartita

I am a smart content user, so the biggest issue for me is metadata problems. Other issues are being overwhelmed and baffled by poser content, not understanding what different file formats mean, and (as I just found out) installing stuff through BOTH the DIM and Daz Connect. So for me, a large portion of getting my product libray organized and catagorized is going to be sorting through the mess. 

Hope some of that was useful!

IceDragonArt

Thank you both!  That's exactly the kind of thing I'm interested in hearing

@LaPeiteVerita, the Pose content is definitely something I will be going over as its one of the reasons I got serious about categorizing eveyrhting.