Textures In Transience

pixeldamage · Aug 2009

Just wondering what fellow artists do about transporting their texture libraries. Often I have to cart my textures from home to a new job or vice versa and wonder if there's a better way? i.e portable hard drives?

What i do is save to a folder at work and then over write my files at home hopefully adding the new ones but this causes a problem if two files are labled the same but are different images. I wish there was some web software that could check in and out files and shift them around so wherever you are you can save them to the same place. Same for model files etc.

Maybe something exists? Trouble with flash drives etc are that my textures are over 20GB total. Another method i've used is saving all new textures at work to a different folder and then I new files to my home ones are already separated. Still hopefully there's a better way. I think microsoft does something called spaces or something but there's probably better methods.....

Entity · Aug 2009

1tb portable hdd's

pior · Aug 2009

On drives:
http://www.allwaysync.com/

Online:
https://www.getdropbox.com/
(but I assume this might create security threats? Leaks and so on)

Hope this helps!

pixeldamage · Aug 2009

Thanks Pior! Will check out getdropbox though i can't afford premium services or i'd just have a subscription to environment-textures.com since they have such a good collection (i used to have one at a previous position).

Dont really want to have to carry a hard drive to and from work.... be cooll to have a small 1TB flash drive with built in bluetooth/wifi which auto synched with my local machine. I could then have it implanted into my body and carry and auto update my texture collection wherever I go. Might ask santa for one this xmas

oobersli · Aug 2009

not sure how many textures you pack around, but you might try to get a 9gig thumbdrive. Not a whole lot of space but can hold a decent amount of base textures to work off of.

Tumerboy · Aug 2009

I used my portable hard drive to copy them initially. But now I use Dropbox for any updates. Basically, I have a "Textures" folder in Dropbox, and if I'm at work, or home, and download/find something new, I make sure to drop it in that folder, and then when I get to the other end, just move it back out into the corresponding folder there.