Finding/Organizing poses

brainmuffin

I have many, perhaps too many, pose sets and finding them is becoming a real pain. I'm looking for ideas on how to find and orgranize them. Perhaps being able to group all the kneeling in one set. Another with standing. Fighting. Etc.

sriesch

I've done what you described, and it is an imperfect solution (still dramatically better than uncategorized though).  A lot of poses can't be easily classified only one way vs the other, or apply to multiple things, or there may be poses intended for multiple figures that sort of need to be next to each other if you want to remember they interact even though one pose is completely different than the other, etc.  I've found poses for magic use , running, jumping, flying, dancing, and manipulating various objects can sometimes all be intermingled.  Also remember you have partial poses, which lead to expressions, which might be a combination of poses and morph injections. 

I've also found I have roughly Way Too Many standing poses, so some subcategories are overloaded and I have multiple pages (which is awkward to look at, I find myself ignoring anything past page 1 as too hard unless I'm really looking hard for something I can't find), and when I tried creating a bunch of useful subcategories, I can't remember which things are in which.  So it's still a work in progress.  I've considered making subcategories something like "near duplicates" just to cram leftovers into if they're all very similar, so they're available if needed but the ones I'd be more likely to use would be the ones I see immediately upon clicking the category.

I've never gone the metadata route, but perhaps that would be something to consider since you could more easily classify things in multiple categories?

sriesch

Here's a combination of several screenshots showing the kinds of things I've tried and run into so far.

brainmuffin

Interesting idea.