Yes, again - Texture Organizers

[HoneyBear Lilliehook 380]

I've read old threads about what texture organizers people were using. But it's almost 2020 and new products develop all the time. 

What texture organizer have you found that works the best?

If it doesn't delete duplicates, that's a no from me.

 

[nabrej Aabye 1]

I use many texture organizers. Free and paid ones

For me, the best two ones are not free :

1- Texture and sculpties organizer from IOL : https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/IOL-Texture-Organizer-Sculpty-Support-50-Folders/641721

2- Texture and Sculpt Organizer V2 from Kinex : https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/KinEx-Texture-and-Sculpt-Organizer-V2/775098

[Alyona Su 8,936]

Because mesh and low LI (18): https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/20-Texture-Viewer-20-Basic-Category/8192751

As for duplicates: the wise person manages that in their account inventory.

Edited November 13 by Alyona Su

[ChinRey 4,890]

I use Windows and OpenOffice.

I'm seriously not going to try using the relatively crude tools we can have inworld to keep track of all those textures. So it's local copies of everything that is even remotely interesting and a big spreadsheet with all the info I need/want to have for each.

[Alyona Su 8,936]

31 minutes ago, ChinRey said:

I use Windows and OpenOffice.

I'm seriously not going to try using the relatively crude tools we can have inworld to keep track of all those textures. So it's local copies of everything that is even remotely interesting and a big spreadsheet with all the info I need/want to have for each.

That's a good point, but could get very expensive when uploading, as those crude tools are designed for textures already paid-for and in-world that you will be applying to in-world objects. The only prupose of having an offline texture management anything is for offline use of those textures. And even when you export your 3D models for upload into SL, you still have to upload those textures. Though, if you make enough L$ to always upload those you need ad-hoc, then sure. 

[ChinRey 4,890]

26 minutes ago, Alyona Su said:

That's a good point, but could get very expensive when uploading,

I do keep inworld copies to use. The local copies are just for reference, allowing me to see all textures in a category at a glance and without having to wait for ages for them to load.

Edited November 13 by ChinRey

[Stephanie Misfit 472]

7 hours ago, ChinRey said:

I use Windows and OpenOffice.

I'm seriously not going to try using the relatively crude tools we can have inworld to keep track of all those textures. So it's local copies of everything that is even remotely interesting and a big spreadsheet with all the info I need/want to have for each.

I have everything organised on my hard drive, too. I rarely use my SL purchased textures "as is" in world, they all end up being edited in Photoshop, becoming part of new textures for clothing or builds. I don't go all out with a spreadsheet to organise them but they are in folders by type of texture, with descriptive names and it is pretty easy to find what I need. I still keep them in my inventory and it is very easy to find the in world version of a texture just by searching for the name.

[Kyrah Abattoir 1,433]

I've been sorting my textures in neat little categorie in my inventory.

[ChinRey 4,890]

9 hours ago, Stephanie Misfit said:

I have everything organised on my hard drive, too.

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I still keep them in my inventory and it is very easy to find the in world version of a texture just by searching for the name.

Yes but that's not an option when you have tens of thousands of textures. You can't keep all of those loose in your inventory. So I box them up and use Bel's Inventory List to generate content lists to paste into the spreadsheet.

[Mollymews 2,207]

i stopped using scripted texture organisers since Catznip included a mouseover texture thumbnail preview. The cool thing about this is that it will also do the thumbnail preview of the 1st texture in the folder when mouseover the folder name