KR Engineering Texture Master v. 3

Item: K.R. Engineering Texture Master Organizer

 

Recommended by: Dacob Paine

Created by: Stowe Elytis

Distributed by: Karsten Rutledge

 

Purchased from: Inworld Store

Price as of Jan. 2009: $1100 L

Permissions: Copy and Modify

Prims: 48

 

URL: https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=783357

SL-URL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Karoastoff/128/128/50/

 

DISCLAIMER: The following is a brief, impartial and independent review of the above entitled product/service/object as currently available for purchase within the virtual world of Second Life. I, Dacob Paine, was not compensated for my work in any form. I am not involved with the creators of any reviewed products in any form. My reviews and recommendations are not to be misconstrued as endorsements or warranties as to the availability, usefulness, function or continued utility of any product presented here.

 

Features:

 

• Can hold an unlimited number of individual textures

• 16 user-defined categories for organizing

• Full name or partial name searching

• Automatic duplicate removal based on texture name

• Can distribute textures to group members or the public

• You can load hundreds of textures at a time to the organizer

Review:

 

There was once a dark time in my SL life. It was a time when I had no idea that products like the K.R. Engineering Texture Master Organizer existed. Back then, when I wanted a wall texture, I searched in inventory. I had many ingenious ways of sorting my textures but at the end of the day, I was still opening and closing them constantly, so I could see what they looked like. Then, not long after I’d joined SL and back when I was a newbie, a business associate of mine rezzed out his Texture Master, and I immediately asked where I might be able to get a copy. Many of the freebie textures I still have came from his copy – I remember distinctly clicking the menu buttons and receiving copies of all three thousand textures, organized into 30 folders of 100 textures each. It took all of two minutes for me to get my copies, and I was hooked on the Texture Master from that point on. When you first purchase this item, loading it with textures is simplicity in itself. No dropping them one by one, you can load folders with hundreds of textures at a time into this product, and it will happily process away in the background, with a simple hovertext display letting you know the progress. You can define up to 16 categories for your textures, and sort them accordingly so you need only look at the ones you want. The real advantage is in searching for textures – with 16 thumbnails per page, you can quickly see which textures are appropriate and which are not for your build. The search functions are fantastic and quick as can be, and the display can changed from the standard 4 by 4 to larger sizes with less thumbnails per page, to make fine details larger. It is important to note that while your Texture Master is modifiable, it is not designed to be resized! I found this out through painful experience – it was not pretty, let me tell you. Luckily it is copyable, so if you break it, just rez another copy and start over. If you build, want to build, or think you want to build in the future, this is simply an essential product. It’s the best texture organizer I’ve found to date in SL, and a product I highly recommend.

 

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