Bottom line: in this day and age we don't need to upgrade to "insane specs' (tm) to stay on top of things in 3D. I have to know: I once bought a noise-proofed rack from a specialized vendor for a workstation or two I owned. These machines were insufferable to listen to. Cost me high three digits or perhaps early four -…
HI, i'm a 3D artist starting to learn UE. I imported my low-poly mesh into unreal and also imported baked normal map for it (directx format). With normal map applied to the model on some details there is a shift in place of UV seams, other details have obvious distortions, and these artifacts appear only in UE, in other…
You may want to consider not storing metadata in file names at all. Instead use GUIDs and associate those to a database containing all your metadata. As you’ve found, trying to store data in filenames will inevitably get unwieldy at scale. So don’t. This solves your UX problem since you’re not letting users rename things…