I think probably. And yes, it does come up fairly
regularly, with good cause. One of the issues for me is that Xsi's project model
isn't hierarchical but the nature of many of the projects we do is hierarchical:
movie->scene->shot->sub-shot->version. nearly always I break jobs
down into shots, one project per shot but I'd prefer something more
structured.
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Gene
Crucean
Sent: 02-October-2005 20:12
To:
XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Copy External Files
under Project should take care of folders
Didn't Brad start a thread about this a while back? I think I
remember it getting pretty big too.
On 10/2/05, Kris
Rivel <krisr(at)quietman.net>
wrote:
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!
>
>Michael
Klein
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>
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