I thought the app to be genial. But I never quite learned to use it...
Thing is I've already had my assets organized on file drives. In each folder, labeled Sofas, for example, I had render and subfolder with said render that contained Max file and textures.
To make the app create neat structure, I would have to re-create it partly. Assign render to each Max file it would find. The app can do this automatically, but only if identically named render is exactly within the folder of Max file.
It becomes more hassle with "Collection" items. Let's use Evermotion vegetables, which has I dunno, 30 max files. The app will display 30 max files, which aren't named properly to start with by Evermotion, and you have to manually assign renders to those files so you can see what you are selecting. This is quite a work, so you might as well just skip it, open the .pdf that comes with such list and import it manually by yourself.
In short: to use it, you still have to do some manual clean-up :- ) It's additional work, so I might as well just stay with existing structure. Maybe if I had this app 4 years ago in beginning.
The app gives you a choice to display the shaded view as thumbnail, but that is pretty shit way to browse assets. Or I think it can render a preview for you, but those scenes aren't often positioned properly so such previews would suck as well.
Take-away: It's definitely the best app on market, it's greatly thought through. But it still requires work on your part and you know how time and patience is lacking commodity :- ).
