Best way to categorize poser stuff?
agamersday
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I have a lot of poser items that I downloaded for free or bought but since they go into the hundreds its quite hard to categorize them one by one.
Is there a way to batch categorize items from poser?
and also why are they not looking like this in my category with the label when I categorize them?
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You can categorise or create a product from a folder in Content Library>Poser Formats by right-click, if creating a product you can also add files in the dialogue.
I assume you mean the green 'Prop' label. Unfortunately the right-click > categorize approach isn't enough to grant that. For that, you have to provide more metadata as described here:
Since the green label is usually redundant, I just stick with categories alone which itself, as you mention, is already time consuming enough.
My advice is to skip the products section and just use the categories to create a system that feel right to you... and keep in mind that the same item can be in multiple categories. Believe me, you quickly hit the point where you really don't remember what the heck you have anymore and while DS's content manager has improved a lot since they went to the new system, it works best if you lay things out in a manner that intuitively works the way your brain does. For example, I have separate categories for products where being iray or non-iray is critical, like lights and shaders, with a redundant separate shader folder for the things that I use constantly like the hair shaders.
I would like to hear how others have categorized their stuff. I have a lot of stuff that I forget about or can't find when I want it.
I have tried adding metadate to a couple of products, but I'm not sure I want to go that route.
I also just tried categorizing one item. It did put it in the category I wanted. But I was dismayed to see that it removed it from the product view. I like the product views and if categorizing is going to remove them from there, then I'm not sure I'll do that either.
And is there anyway to put the item I categorized back into the product view. Can't it be in the product view and a cetegory at the same time?
Categorizing shouldn't remove it from the Product view. Are the files in their original location? If you move them, their location won't match the database and will appear to be missing. Just to make sure, you are using right-click => Create a Category From" => "Selected Folder" or "Selected Folder and Sub-folders", right?
I have many "lost" products that are in their original locations, but are in the default "Lost and Found" category and Product "Local User" (under L). I've given up trying to straighten that out, but as long as my custom categories work, I don't care. Besides, the Product view takes so long to load, I can find things faster using DIM or opening the original zip to get the location.
Neat feature I didn't find until recently: Right click on any file (or group of files) and select "Categorize". This opens up a nice tree structure with all the categories, those it belongs to in white, the rest are darker. You can add new categories, move the item to another category, or do other top-level category manipulation (like delete; be careful!). It is a little slow recovering, since Studio has to reload the whole category tree after making changes, but it can quickly show you if something is, in fact, categorized, and where.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, everything is where connect installed it. All Daz content was installed through connect. I did not move any files. All I did was open the product view, then I picked a pair of pants for M3. Something old so it wouldn't matter so much if I did something wrong. I right clicked on it and then selected a category from the list. I add a new category at the end of the "tree" I picked. It started with wardrobe and ended with M3. Then I checked and the icon was there where I categorized it. However when I went back to the product folders, I looked and the pants were no longer in M3 Everyday wear under products. The other items were there, but not the pants. I did go back to categories and went to where I had categorized the pants and I clicked on the icon and it loaded the pants without any error.
I'll take another look. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong folder. There was an Everyday wear and an Everyday wear 2.
I’ve stopped using Daz’s product view and category view. I now just categorize all my stuff manually this way if the database chunks out I don’t lose all my hard work. Yes it messes up Daz studios search but the search rarely pulls up what I need anyway. Now I know if I go into environments all my sci-fi environments will be in a single folder and not in prop or under the pa’s name.
i don’t reccomend this solution for everyone but I’m a bit tired of being unable to find stuff and being forced to create products takes too much time
Odd that it would remove the item from the Products view. You are talking about Products in the Content Library pane, not thre Lost and Found category? Is everything installed with Connect, or do you install some items with DIM?
I'm with you there, Serene Night. Don't forget that your categories are stored in the same database (I think), so be sure to export user data regularly, and back it up. Even if it isn't, export it and back it up anyway. Twice.
I manually install wtih DIM. But after I just go into the hard drive and move it around. Go into the Genesis 8 Male>Poses folder and remove all the poses from vanity folders. I then put them in folders based on pose type that I create manually, and I take the expressions out of the individual pose sections and ptu them in with the other expressions. I put the couples poses in with the other couples poses and the handgun poses with the hangun poses.
I also have organzied the props folder and the environments folder. I'm kind of surpised at the duplicaton. Now if I go into: Props>Christmas I can find all props related to christmas.
But if I go to look for Stalilion Poses for example. They aren't there. Moving the poses manually made the database unsearchable.
I'm okay with that, because chances are if I was looking for a genesis 8 male pose set I wouldn't remember it was called Stallion Poses. So I'm good with it.
I have just reached the phase where I need to find stuff quickly and can no longer do it.
I made a post about custom categories. It might be helpful to you: https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/141636/find-your-content-get-organized/p1
Totally agree with this. I'm getting close to 10,000 products from DAZ alone in my runtimes and at least as many from the combined other vendors, and while I haven't done it with everything, I've manually moved and renamed a lot of the stuff around just so it's all in the same general place. That's especially true for poses and textures for older poser-based products, where there seemed to be a half dozen different ways that people would name files, with some just using the product names and others pre-fixing it with mat, !mat, or some such, sometimes with a space between but not always and in either the poses or materials folder...
Oooh! This is a nice thread, Divamakeup -
I made a tutorial for categorizing - the link is in my signature.
I categorize things as soon as I buy them.