Re: Feature Request: Copy External Files under Project should take care of folders

[Kris Rivel <krisr(at)quietman.net>]

Yeah, I am for this too.  I personally would like the project manager to 
see sub-folders in the scenes directory as well.  We never usually store 
scene files directly under the scenes folder so in the project manager, 
you just end up with this really long list of scene files which is 
almost impossible to sort through on large projects.

This gets me thinking about a topic that I very rarely if ever see 
discussed, project management.  I am very curious to see how various 
studios manage all the assets of a project and I'm not talking about how 
its "technically" managed.  I'm talking more about things like naming 
conventions, directory structures and most importantly, how this is all 
organized when several people are working on a project at the same 
time.  In addition, for me personally, I'm more interested to see how 
smaller shops handle this.  We have a rough structure that we try to 
follow but it would be great to share ideas on this topic with other 
shops so that we could improve this area.  Perhaps I'll start a thread 
on XSI Base or something to discuss this.

Kris

Michael Klein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is also sent to support(at)softimage.com.
>
> We use for our projects subfolders in the XSI database of course.
> Eg. for textures we create logical subfolders in pictures to keep everything
> organized.
>
> When I save my scene to another database to work with it eg. on my laptop I
> use the >Copy External Files under Project< feature to copy the actual used
> pictures in the scene to the new database.
>
> The problem is that in a bigger project a lot of folders with pics are
> stored in Pictures and I just want to get the few ones of my actual scene.
> The >Copy External Files under Project< just copies the pics and sequences
> straight to the Pictures folder and does not care about our folder structure
> which is bad. So I can't work in that way because all pictures have that new
> path in my actual materials.
>
> I didn't test it with 5.0 yet. If this is still working like in 4.2 the next
> release of XSI *SHOULD* support >Copy External Files under Project and Keep
> Folder Structure<.
>
> Thanks, nice weekend, good night!
>
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