WEBVTT 00:01.110 --> 00:05.870 Welcome to a file structure and naming in this video. 00:05.870 --> 00:11.070 You'll understand that there is no one way of setting up your filing system. 00:11.110 --> 00:15.790 That's certainly true and it will often depend on the project itself. 00:15.790 --> 00:21.260 Now if you have a personal style of filing and you don't like mine use yours. 00:21.270 --> 00:22.890 That's absolutely fine. 00:22.890 --> 00:26.030 And of course remember to talk with your team. 00:26.280 --> 00:31.640 You will form guidelines based from your own needs and experience moving forward. 00:31.770 --> 00:35.430 Now there is some rigidity in a team environment. 00:35.430 --> 00:41.220 You will have guidelines so you can discuss with colleagues what you actually need for the particular 00:41.220 --> 00:42.400 project you're working on. 00:42.390 --> 00:48.510 It can change from project to project as some software might expect certain things to be stored and 00:48.510 --> 00:50.080 named in a certain way. 00:50.100 --> 00:56.190 So if you got those constraints it's best set up from the very start to match what other software might 00:56.190 --> 00:57.870 be expecting. 00:57.870 --> 00:59.980 Now moving on to naming. 00:59.990 --> 01:06.870 Very important in a team or review just working yourself with a large project is very critical that 01:06.870 --> 01:08.310 you can find your assets. 01:08.310 --> 01:11.610 Materials textures are whatever you've been creating. 01:11.670 --> 01:19.930 So naming files well will help you and others find them and know what they are by just reading the name. 01:20.220 --> 01:25.060 There are some naming conventions that we will use in this section and will get to those when we need 01:25.070 --> 01:25.800 to. 01:26.010 --> 01:31.370 So int in app blender itself in the actual program not the file system. 01:31.380 --> 01:36.960 We're going to be making a much more complex scenes than we've previously made. 01:37.460 --> 01:41.630 Organize it as you go not afterwards when it's complete mess. 01:41.650 --> 01:47.360 Organize it as you go so it never becomes a complete mess and use descriptive names. 01:47.360 --> 01:54.040 Q And Kubes 0 0 1 etc. is not helpful to anyone especially not yourself. 01:54.050 --> 01:57.230 It's really easy to get in a pickle when you're focussed on the modelling. 01:57.230 --> 02:02.240 You look over at your outliner and you just hang your head in shame and despair because there's no way 02:02.240 --> 02:04.700 you can work out what anything is anymore. 02:04.970 --> 02:09.100 So lets us have a quick look how I've got my system set up. 02:10.010 --> 02:17.120 So I am of course on a Mac here and I have my home directory Michael bridges and within that itself 02:17.180 --> 02:19.970 I have a folder called repo's. 02:19.970 --> 02:25.550 Now the reason why I have a folder called repose is that's where the repository is going to be so we 02:25.550 --> 02:27.130 can actually start using sorcery. 02:27.140 --> 02:33.590 Got it all set up now but there's no point in what we can't do anything in it yet until we have made 02:33.680 --> 02:35.240 our file system. 02:35.240 --> 02:40.370 So let's go ahead and as you can see here in the repo's I've got the various sections of the course 02:40.370 --> 02:49.010 because I use the VCR s to manage the actual lectures themselves and mine will end up looking slightly 02:49.010 --> 02:52.830 different from yours as we hop in and out of source tree. 02:52.940 --> 02:54.320 But don't worry about that. 02:54.330 --> 02:58.450 In fact everybody's going to look completely different depending on how you set things up. 02:58.460 --> 03:04.280 So if I go into the game asset PAC now we can see I've got a read me far in there that's just a description 03:04.700 --> 03:10.700 the DOT m.d. means mark down it could just as easily be a text file and I've created two folders here 03:10.700 --> 03:16.460 an example one sound for instance if you will working by adding sound into your scene as well. 03:16.640 --> 03:23.180 But the main one here for us is an assets folder and inside there I've got meshes and textures those 03:23.180 --> 03:29.720 are the two main ones that we're going to need to move forward and I've created a just a short cut here 03:29.720 --> 03:35.810 and we'll go into more details of what all those hieroglyphics there mean in terms of the texture naming 03:35.810 --> 03:41.510 conventions and then the meshes themselves what that is going to mean as well. 03:41.510 --> 03:44.000 So there's lots of things that you can do in terms of filing. 03:44.060 --> 03:51.790 You could store all of your stuff in one particular folder for one particular model and group everything 03:51.830 --> 03:54.690 by that particular model itself. 03:54.740 --> 03:57.490 I am going to go for a more of a flatter approach. 03:57.500 --> 04:03.410 I would recommend not going more than three levels deep because then it becomes a bit unwieldy. 04:03.410 --> 04:07.390 And if you've got to go three level just for one item that's going to be time consuming. 04:07.400 --> 04:13.550 And again if you've named your files appropriately You should also be able to use your built in search 04:13.550 --> 04:21.250 function in order to find items especially once it gets a much much busier in our file system. 04:21.290 --> 04:22.760 It's Challenge time. 04:22.760 --> 04:25.330 I'd like you to set up your working Directorate. 04:25.520 --> 04:32.410 So place your reference material that you've gathered here create your necessary folders that you require. 04:32.690 --> 04:36.130 Remember there isn't a right way of doing this. 04:36.320 --> 04:39.550 And of course be prepared to reorganize later. 04:39.560 --> 04:42.530 If you find it isn't quite working out. 04:42.590 --> 04:46.140 Just bear in mind when you start moving things you break links. 04:46.160 --> 04:48.610 So is important that we don't break too many links. 04:48.620 --> 04:50.820 If you need to reorganize later. 04:50.970 --> 04:53.690 I'd love to see how you guys have set up your working Directorate. 04:53.690 --> 04:58.800 Are you going for a similar method of I am or have you got for a completely different method. 04:58.820 --> 05:01.130 Please share your work in the discussions. 05:01.130 --> 05:04.730 This will be the end of this lecture and what can I ask you to pause and go away. 05:04.730 --> 05:09.680 Just go ahead and go do that and I will see you guys in the next lecture.