Let's say you use Blender, Photoshop and Premiere Pro/Davinci and you are making a music video with a little dinosaur. Where is what kind of file located? Are the references in the Project Folder inside the Blender Folder or do you use a seperate Reference&Asset Folder? Blender->Projects->Music Video->References->Dinosaurs…
I do like this with projects. All apps that are required for that project have a folder inside the main folder. For me it's ZBrush, Max, Substance and Unreal. Max sets it's project folders as needed when you set the directory. zBrush and Substance don't do that, so all the files just get tossed in that folder. If I export…
Structuring stuff by asset type into folders has its benefits . They're mostly focused around trawling repositories with scripts or auditing content so probably not a concern for small scale working but when you're looking at hundreds of thousands of files the ability to filter by folder name becomes quite valuable.
@Alex_J yeah you have some good points. Putting tons of files i rarely touch on an external drive already helped a lot. I also put old files in a drive-folder, sent the clients an email and said they can download them until the end of the year and then they are gone.
I wish there would be an AI that would tag your folders and files automatically based on things you ever did with them . For some uncertain reason there is non of a sort. In my experience whatever projects based file structure you maintain something will be always lost . Substance Designer is especially nasty with that for…