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Hi all,
I have a query regarding the sharing of models over Dropbox. Myself and a main designer often work on the same or copied out models when we are setting up for rendering, then via a process of paste in place for certain elements we build up to a main master model which then goes through the final render.
We have regular issues where we might have, for example, a paste in place model of some plants which contain complicated geometry, various materials etc, that I might model and save on my PC on the shared Dropbox folder, this model is then reopened at the other end and copy & pasted into the main model for rendering, but more often than not the geometry is there but all of the materials & textures are not mapped correctly, linked or even missing. We use models and materials from the same shared location yet we still need to re-path a lot of the time and on occasion some complex models need materials individually mapped and linked again which can be very time consuming.
Am I missing something very obvious here? I understand that both our machines will have slightly different folder locations for the Dropbox, ie c:/user/dropbox or d:/user/dropbox etc but should this cause this much of a constant issue? Should we be using a different server or similar?
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thank you.
I have a query regarding the sharing of models over Dropbox. Myself and a main designer often work on the same or copied out models when we are setting up for rendering, then via a process of paste in place for certain elements we build up to a main master model which then goes through the final render.
We have regular issues where we might have, for example, a paste in place model of some plants which contain complicated geometry, various materials etc, that I might model and save on my PC on the shared Dropbox folder, this model is then reopened at the other end and copy & pasted into the main model for rendering, but more often than not the geometry is there but all of the materials & textures are not mapped correctly, linked or even missing. We use models and materials from the same shared location yet we still need to re-path a lot of the time and on occasion some complex models need materials individually mapped and linked again which can be very time consuming.
Am I missing something very obvious here? I understand that both our machines will have slightly different folder locations for the Dropbox, ie c:/user/dropbox or d:/user/dropbox etc but should this cause this much of a constant issue? Should we be using a different server or similar?
Any advice would be very welcome.
Thank you.
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