(Five Stars out of Five)
This time we take a look at a program that every Poser user should own to help manage their growing collections of Poser Assets. 3D Content Installer is a small, well-designed, and inexpensive program that automates the content installation process and makes managing multiple external Runtimes a lot easier.
One of the issues that faces every Poser user as they start to learn the ways of the program and build their library of assets is content management. All the figures, textures, MAT poses, props, and animated poses can grow to several gigabytes in size and since, by default, installers and Poser itself like to put everything into the program’s own internal Runtime, this can make Poser’s functionality start to suffer. Assets become harder to find in the ensuing confusing mess of a Runtime and Poser takes longer and longer to switch directories within the Runtime.
Eventually, the user is left with no choice but to “nuke the site from orbit.”
is a welcome entry into a relatively unexplored field of Poser Training and reference material, but more advanced Poser users may find the book to be somewhat lacking. As a primer for character animation with all versions of Poser, however, this book serves quite well and is really meant for people just starting out with Poser animation.