Photoshop! Twice it burned me!

Cody

ARGGGGG!!!!!!

Lost 10 minutes of work when using some scattering brushes on a texture, and it crashed. Not a huge deal but pissed me off. Then I restarted the texture, put in about an hour and a half of work and was in the zone and forgot to save again!!! And it crashed when using a scattering brush again!!! God damn it!!!! It looked good too! GAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! fother mucker!!!

/rant

Wahlgren

Ctrl + S

I use it every other minute. Every time i do a change i like i save. No program has ever burned me since. Well... maybe max has when the files get corrupted but autobackup saves my ass ever time

Hang in there. You can do what a friend of mine did. Write big letters on a paper "SAVE YOUR WORK" and hang it above your monitor.

Cody

Good idea, I will make said paper. It was no joke prob the best texture I have ever done, and it is never the same teh second time. I screen caped right before it totally crashed but it has guides and the uvs overlayed, and not at actual size, so not worth using. Ugh so unmotivated now, and I was finally in the zone. Haven't worked alot lately....

Rens

i control s constantly, it becomes anoying with big files though.


PS crashed on me with the minicomp and eventhough i saved X times inbetween, i got set back 3 hours or so.. is nice!

i also had a brush that made it crash, i just dont use it anymore..

shotgun

u should play doom again
it will re-embed in you the notion of saving every 2 seconds

super_villain

Silly photoshop user, microsoft paint is far more stable. If you must use photoshop, follow the advice of PIG.

Illusions

The best is when it crashes while saving...thats always awesome...

low odor

pfffft ..photoshop..i hand paint all my textures then scan them...photoshop is for chumps

skankerzero

low odor wrote: »

pfffft ..photoshop..i hand paint all my textures then scan them...photoshop is for chumps

pfffft ..scan them..i ship all my hand painted textures with every copy of the game that goes out. They come with instructions on when and how to hold them up against the screen while playing... scanning is for chumps

Ninjas

Cody wrote: »

ARGGGGG!!!!!!

Lost 10 minutes of work when using some scattering brushes on a texture, and it crashed. Not a huge deal but pissed me off. Then I restarted the texture, put in about an hour and a half of work and was in the zone and forgot to save again!!! And it crashed when using a scattering brush again!!! God damn it!!!! It looked good too! GAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!! fother mucker!!!

/rant

I had this exact same problem-- I think it may have been a hardware issue though

Mechadus

Photoshop is like the only program I regularly use that never seems to crash on me... If Max was half as stable I probably wouldn't have been driven to burn all that suff that one time.....

-N

mLichy

Well it's better than Max crashing, the autobak corrupts, then the autobak that tries to backup the corrupted one corrupts.... that happened to me multiple times at work..

aesir

the problem with saving every other second, is that often times you save after you do something stupid like flatten the image. Save in iterations.

danr

i have *never crashed photoshop - from version 2 onwards - until the other week when i crashed cs2 twice on hitting ctrl-d to clear a selection while (i think) moving the wacom a distance. It was prefaced by the cursor dissapearing, and then hang

watch out for it

ImSlightlyBored

@mlichy: yeah same
long live max!

sucks about photoshop man. I'd stay away from that brush. Any chance you can work on something else for a bit so you can refresh on that one piece?

pffft... drawing your own textures and shipping hard copies with each game sucks, you should really create all your textures as ASCII art and publish it in a book, to ship with the game, which you have to read as playing. Drawing is for chumps.

lefix

i was once working in lightwave for 3 days without sleep and without saving when it crashed lesson learned

JacqueChoi

low odor wrote: »

pfffft ..photoshop..i hand paint all my textures then scan them...photoshop is for chumps

No kidding.

Only wussies use the SAVE tool.

Ott

Autoback for PS plz!

Cody

I actually did stay motivated and got my Serenity / Firefly scene into Unreal last night. It was the cargo door I was working on.

ericdigital

You burned yourself! Don't play with fire!

John Warner

hah that's really neet.

you just need to make it so that ctrl+s is part of your zone.

Vrav

Sucks to lose work. For some reason, Photoshop never crashes on me - but it gets slow if I don't close it for a couple days. Silo, of course, crashes and eats verts all the time, but I've learned to deal with that. Would suck a lot more to lose a perfect texture than to lose some slight adjustments on a model.

whats_true

Create a action script in photoshop that saves the PSD and the tga (or whatever format your doing), in one shot. Set a hot key for it, say F4, so you only have to press that one button.

Saves both and is easy to remember.

neolith

I have a Post-it attached to my monitor at work. It says: SAVE EARLY, SAVE OFTEN! Works for all applications.