Texture Organiser

Any suggestions about the best texture organiser? I have way too many textures and desperately need something but there seem to be so many and in so many price rages.

i personally really like the one from ~ K.R. Engineering
i dunno if it's the best though. but i've never had a problem with it ^_^

I love mine from Cortex Designs made by SunenRec Ayoob.

He sells a copyable version so you can make as many as you need. I have found them very dependable. He also has a texture vendor.

Never even knew such a thing existed and reckon i need one badly! Can someone pretty please tell me where i can find one?? Thanks in advance!

i have one form here:

THiNC SL (New Store), Lota (35, 14, 284)

theres a copyable version.. i thiink it was about $600.. or it might have been $800
worth it though, i have loads of them
u can view up to 9 textures at a time, but only the owner can control it

I may be getting to the point where I need something like this. What exactly do they do and how do they work that makes them a good idea beyond just organizing folders in inventory?

I second the vote for Cortex. What an organizer does is allows you to load in all your copy/trans ok textures and you can view them in groups of 9 - 12 or view a single texture. It is very helpful when you are stuck on something and just can't find the right texure and are getting tired of going through each of your 500 texture folders looking for ideas. They look at lot like a multi-item vendor with a scroll forward and scroll back bar at the bottom. You just drag your texture folders into the contents tab of the organizer (the textures remain in your inventory as well.) If you buy the copyable version, you can do different organizers for different texture types, for example: Fabrics, Stone & Brick, Building Materials, Woods...

I use Texture Assistant Pro by Top/tech
You load your copy textures into it as for other products.

It displays 25 at a time in a 5x5 grid.
Click a texture and it whips around to show you that texture as large, small -- and tiled so you can see if it can be used seamlessly.
I bought the Pro copy version as it allows me to have any number of the machines about a build and in inventory with different categories of textures in each. I edit the name of the machine copy for the texture category in it.

On clicking an icon, the thing serves up current texture to it's 'owner', so it's great for group builds.

the copy one from thinc is THE BEST
i have the copyable one and i do one for each type of texture
one for walls
one for wooden textures
one for glass/windows

etc. etc.

keeps them all neat and out of my inventory and i just drag them out when i need them

the cortex one looks awesome. i love it.
the thinc one is sweet too, but its so small. is it editable so i can make it bigger?

yep i drop my thinc one out and stretch it to be bigger

I bought this one on the advice of a friend, and I'm having an awful time getting my textures loaded into it. (and yes, I printed out the instructions). What seems to throw me is that fact that you can load textures into a specific category in while thumbnail view, even though you are browsing a completely different category at the same time.

I continue to persist, since it was expensive, and it was recommended by a friend, but I'm about ready to toss the whole thing off my sky platform!

What I bought in an attempt to simplify my life has actually complicated my life, as I continue to try to get my textures into it, and master how it works.

Maybe others have had more success with it?

Princess Ivory

So I believe I'm understanding these are some kind of devices made with prims that one rezzes and then can flip through and drag textures out of. Is that right? Or is it a window that comes up? Sounds extremely useful either way.

ta arua. i will go buy the copiable thinc organiser.

bodhi, its basically a glorified vendor you can store all your textures in.

As someone mentioned it's kind of like a multi-item vendor. You've got several panels, each capable of displaying a different texture, and you page through the textures with controls on the device. When you see one you like you usually just click the panel displaying the texture and it hands you a copy.

I use copyable THiNC too, very handy. Available on SLExchange.

I will note, though, that they're not really good for true organizing- as you have to get a copy of the texture from to use it, and you end up cluttering your inventory anyway- but they ARE a great way to browse textures if you are careful about how you organize your textures, and how you name your organizers.

I have different texture organizers for 'stone' 'glass' 'wood' etc.

i just picked up the thinc organiser.
do you others have a resize bug in the middle 'box/display'? after a resize that one particular piece snaps back to its original size after either coming in/out of sleep or being rezzed. very annoying! hopefully its some LL thing that will go away when i log back in tomorrow.

The Lestats Texture Organizer is pretty good. It offers a lot of features some of the others do not. It is a little more expensive that some of the others also, but I think it is worth the extra cost. Available from SL Exchange or from Lestat Llewelyn's store.

There is a also free HUD texture organizer available at TEXTURES R US store. It is kind of basic, but the price is right. It is just inside the front door a little to the right of the information desk.