Do I Need to Install Poser Content If I'm Only Using DS?

sandmanmax

Hey, y'all -  I'm running out disk space on my content drive and thought maybe I can stop installing poser files since I don't use it anymore. There's a lot of duplication, especially with props and architecture sets.  I thought I could tell by looking at the DS and PS zip files.  I kind of figured if they're approximately the same size, then the DS file is the only one I need.  But when I finally opened one up, there are only dsf files in the data folder and I have no way of knowing whether they reference obj files in the Poser Libraries folders or not.  I know i don't need Poser material files, character pose files for Genesis 2 and backwards will be duplicates (assuming they exist in both structures - Gen4 usually only installs into the Poser folders).  But it seems that some prop sets require you to load the actual object from the Poser libraries first, then load the DAZ material presets.  Are there any guidelines to go by?   (Or maybe I should just get a bigger hard-drive - yeah, path of least resistence.)

Richard Haseltine

If you have .dsf assets files in the data folder then that should be it - those will have the geometry, along with any rigging or morphs, and will not require the OBJ from the Poser version. Your rule-of-thumb should be good - just occasionally the DS version will include textues even if it's a set of Companion Files for the Poser vesion (either by mistake or because Poser used not to hnadle 16-bit displacement maps).

sandmanmax

Thanks, Richard.