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Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
It's totally your call of course, but IMHO it's better to talk with the tools programmer now, instead of later. Highly repetitive tasks tend to add more human errors to the game, and it discourages iteration. Besides, this is part of a tool programmer's job... solving repetitive tasks. I worked with an in-house editor… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
these type of tasks are part of the job. Tech has made things faster, but you still have a ton of monotonous tasks that need to get done, that usually get put onto the cheaper Junior level people to do. You wouldn't pay a lead or senior to do these easy tasks (though they have equally boring stuff to do as well that… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
cheers guys. Its an in-house editor im working with so cant get my hands dirty like i could with max script. Also we are close to the end of development so i wouldn't feel comfortable bring up these issues at this stage. Its a small team and a relaxed atmosphere so i would be fine to talk to the tools programmer or lead… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
My advice... see if you have any Technical Artists in your company, and talk with them about the workflow. If you don't have one of those, talk to the tool programmer who maintains the editor. Once you explain how mind-numbingly repetitive your process is, they'll probably add a feature out of pity. If the programmer… -
Exhausting repetative tasks
So game art and environment art in particular is filled with mind numbing repetitive tasks. I'm sure most entry level guys have had to do their fair share of crappy tasks and I'm wondering how people deal with it. I currently have a task that i'm finding mentally exhausting. I dont mean a hard unwrap of anything like that,… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
I hear ya... Doing repetitive tasks like that is what drove me to dive into maxscript and it has helped me in so many ways above and beyond getting rid of annoying roadblocks like this. I see a few suggestions to buddy up to a tech artist, but honestly its better if you dive into it yourself. People really aren't… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
And you'd be surprised how quickly programmers can sometimes hack in small fixes to speed up or eliminate some of the stuff that is repetitive. And we love a challenge :) You know the problem better than any of us and it's hard to know entirely whether a computer could easily fix it without more info, but anything that… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
Like everyone else says, see if there is a Tech artist to help you, be gentle on how you broach the subject as these people usually have a crapload of work on making tools for other team members or fixes. Youl often get better results if you try and figure out or research a quicker/easier way to possibly do what you need… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
What exactly is the task? Most programs nowadays give you the option to create/modify key shortcuts(or mouse shortcuts if you have one with multiple buttons). If the engine doesn't support it, there's always those programs that run in the background that let you create the shortcuts. Not sure how effective they'd be in an… -
Re: Exhausting repetative tasks
It's always good to be friends with the tool-team, just saying. If you try to understand their type of work they'll probably make an effort trying to understand yours.
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