First off: this course is soooo good so far! I'm watching it straight before I start following along, and just finished the modeling chapter. Oh boy, so many tasty 3D cookies! Maybe I just really like modeling and should write a review before I get to unwrapping and texturing lol.
Now here's the question: Jonathan saves his 26th incremental file at the end of this one. I totally see the benefit of that, and imagine you can and up with dozens more versions on a more complex model.
I imagine you start a different sequence for texturing, and maybe another for animating?
But when do you start ditchint previous versions? How many do you keep? Asking for real world scenarios/ applications. How do you manage this on your day-to-day workflows?
Random questions, I know, but I got curious.
HI Nathalia,
That is very much a personal preference (as with many things).
I think Jonathan uses an Incremental Save after each Lesson, so that he can provide those .blend files in the Course Files.
Personally, I tend to end up with between 10 and 15 versions with larger projects and when I am cleaning my hard drive, I delete most of them.
Usually, when I come to a point, where I am happy with what I got, but are about to do something 'dangerous' or I don't know how to do the next part and have to experiment , I make an Incremental Save.
("Normal' Save, I only do before pressing the Play button with a Simulation, or before pressing the Bake button.)
But everybody is different and there is no good or bad, just do what works for you (and yes, that might take some experimentation).
Yeah, as Martin says, it's just preference, unless you're working on a Studio that has its own pipeline rules. I tend to end up with 5 files, I save whenever I feel I have reached a point that if something happens I'm going to loose a lot of progress. Once I'm finished with the project I tend to delete 3 files and just keep the last 2 since I know at this point it all turned out great.
I imagined it was a lot of preference there... but since I don't work in a normal pipeline I figured I'd ask. Thank you both for weighing in! I feel like my process is not off then :)