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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: kori on October 25, 2005, 01:31:25 PM
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I was working on my game a few days ago, and I needed to setup some system for nameing a set of images along a path. I had 45 images to name. Each view node had four views, Front, Rear, Left and Right view.
The names of my images were getting way too long.
Example of one node with four views:
Lagoon_path_01_front
Lagoon_path_01_back
Lagoon_path_01_left
Lagoon_path_01_right
Then the next note location:
Lagoon_path_02_front
Lagoon_path_02_back
Lagoon_path_02_left
Lagoon_path_02_right
Here is a shorter way of naming the same images:
LG-P-01-F
LG-P-01-B
LG-P-01-L
LG-P-01-R
I have not found a way to name files that I really like yet. As long as I keep each location in it's own folder, the shorter names will work. I am not sure how well Windows will handle long names. I tend to try to keep names short because of windows limitations. In the past windows would cut up my names and make them shorter.
Anyone else want to share how they name there image files? If you end up with several thousand images for a large game, setting up a good filing system is a must, or you will get lost in a sea of images.
Kori
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Anyone else want to share how they name there image files? If you end up with several thousand images for a large game, setting up a good filing system is a must, or you will get lost in a sea of images.
I agree.
I find using directories (and lots of them) a good solution to this problem rather than long filenames.
For example, why have a file called :
C:\mygame\data\actors\Lagoon_path_01_font
When I could have :
C:\mygame\data\actors\roger\lagoon\north01
(You could even go further and have another subdirectory called 'north' and then have frame01, frame02, etc etc, but that might be getting a bit too pedantic.
I reckon that's the easiest way to keep track of things. Categorize as much as possible! :) Sure you have to go on and create all those subdirectories (or subfolders as people call them these days) but later on when you have hundreds (thousands even?) of images, you will find navigating them a breeze.