Inventory

24Dec07

Inventory is the bane of my life. It brings out out all my neatness obsessions and my hatred of losing things. Every second day it seems I have lost something else to the inventory gremlin. The latest is one of my silver Armidi boot leg pieces. Grrrr.

So I’ve developed an intricate, time-consuming and overkill method of dealing with inventory. Firstly, these days I won’t buy ANY no-copy clothes and I hate it when a vendor isn’t clear about permissions.

Second, I’ve bought a fashionista filing cabinet. For anyone who knows what this does just skip the next bit while I explain. The Fashionista inventory management system backs up copy permission items in boxes which are then placed in a prim made to look like either a wardrobe or filing cabinet. Then if you wear the HUD you can retrieve the contents of any box wherever you are. It’s fantastic.

But. But. But. To use this properly is fairly convoluted. First you need a picture of the outfit and to see it properly means it needs to be saved to disk then cropped an uploaded again. After a shopping frenzy I might have 20 new outfits to do this for.

Then for each outfit a box needs to be rezzed, the image added as texture, the contents added and the name of the box changed to a descriptive name of the outfit. Each box then needs to be taken back into inventory and then put in the filing cabinet prim.

I now have over 400 outfits in my filing cabinets and they are getting very slow to load. So I also bought a texture organiser where I also save all the images of my outfits. I can wear this as a HUD and easily flick through my stuff looking for inspiration.

Third, as I am paranoid that the filing cabinet could also eat something I also save every box in a plain inventory box which I hide in a prim in my loft with all the crap I have also collected but won’t throw out.

The only things I permanently keep in inventory are body stuff (hair, skin, shape, lashes, eyes, nails), jewellery, seasonal shoes, underwear and undershirts like T shirts and camisoles.

The result of all this is a typical inventory under 2,000 items that loads really quickly and only minor annoyance if something is eaten. But I shouldn’t have to do all this just to keep what I have paid for.

Credits

Jacket: Savvy Avvy Christmas gift, pants: Digit Darkes, shoes: Tesla, hat: Civvies, gloves: Savvy?, earrings: Earthtones.

Skin: Lovey’s Boutique, hair: Maitreya, eyes: Simtropia, lashes: Cake

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Tags: Digit Darkes, Earthtones, Savvy?, Tesla