File management

pompomstu

Hey guys, I was wondering how people manage their assets whether its models, brushes etc. For instance do I put this banana in a food folder.... or a weapon folder. I`d love to know any sort of hierarchy or extra programs you use to store assets.

Thanks

Eric Chadwick

Do a forum search for Asset Management, you'l find lots of goodies.

pompomstu

Eric Chadwick said:

Do a forum search for Asset Management, you'l find lots of goodies.

Cheers dude, gonna try out http://connecterapp.com/ looks pretty sweet.

JacqueChoi

Character_06_Final_Final_SUPERFINAL_OMFGWTFBBQFINAAAL3.max

Joopson

I have a folder called "work"

Inside that folder are individual project folders: "Potato" "Gun" "Trex with hat" "Bottles"

Inside those folders are more folders. "Meshes" "textures" "baking" etc. And I tend to put my Maya scenes in here as well. If I need to have backups or whatever, usually I'll just tack on  _01 to the end of the scene name. So, "Mime_In_Florida_01.mb"

Works fine for me.

throttlekitty

JacqueChoi said:

Character_06_Final_Final_SUPERFINAL_OMFGWTFBBQFINAAAL3.max

Don't forget to put that in the proper subfolder: \TESTjuneAlternateRIg\

@pompomstu Try to stick with a standard hierarchy, relying on software to do that for you is nice but doesn't really help you in the long run, especially if for some reason it fails or you can't use it anymore.

AtticusMars

New Folder
New Folder (2)
New Folder (3)
asdfuhuewfg.blend
Untitled.blend
test.blend
test (2).blend

RobeOmega

AtticusMars said:

New Folder
New Folder (2)
New Folder (3)
asdfuhuewfg.blend
Untitled.blend
test.blend
test (2).blend

This is too close to the truth for my comfort...

Also
Assetfinal1
Assetfinal2
Assetfinal3
AssetFINAL
AssetFINAL2

Geezus

RobeOmega said:

This is too close to the truth for my comfort...

Also
Assetfinal1
Assetfinal2
Assetfinal3
AssetFINAL
AssetFINAL2

working01
working02
...
working_NEW04
...
working_FINAL03

leilei

I work in Blender, and I really hate Blender's file load/save dialog, so my filenames start out with something like

NewShapes.blend

and just to get the dialog to pass faster I just type gibbersih because I can't read the damn thin little editbox for the filename and I don't want a conflict with an existing earlier file and I don't want to unclick the confirmation box in a rush since it's so easy to do, so eventually the filename after 10 Save Asses becomes:

NewkhhhShhakygjfpggejs.blend

This only started happening from 2.5 on. Earlier Blenders I had used progressive numbers for filenames because the interface was brighter, bigger and readable

Ruz

call all you files like 'final version' then yuo will have final version 01, 02 etc
I call some of my files rude names like shitcracker 01,02 etc ,  as that model was turing out really bad.

generally though i keep my naming stuff simple. hate traversing multiple folders