Project organization
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 4:24 am
So per my earlier post, I'm an amateur coming up to speed on Moho, fairly early in the learning curve. I'm working on a project with my wife to create animated illustrations for her children's book, which will result in a series of 10-15 minute animations for each chapter, with a collection of recurring characters. She's doing the illustrations (and audio), I'm doing the rigging, and we're sharing the animation. We're using DropBox to syncronize the assets and .moho files.
So I'm trying to understand how to set up an appropriate folder structure for two users to work on a shared project. My initial approach was as follows:
I rig up the head with switch layers to choose e.g. eyes and mouths.
Then to create the character-body rig I import the character-head.mono (with "import by reference" checked), and rig up the bones and clean up the motions.
To create a scene I duplicate the set, and import the characters (again with "import by reference" checked).
So far everything makes sense and largely works. But every time I switch computers and open an existing scene, every time it tells me that it can't find any of the .psd files, so I have to navigate via the "rigs" folder to each asset. That is a PITA.
Am I overcomplicating things? Is there a better way to approach this?
So I'm trying to understand how to set up an appropriate folder structure for two users to work on a shared project. My initial approach was as follows:
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MOHO
- rigs
- - character-1
- - - character-head.psd
- - - character-head-rig.moho
- - - - front-view
- - - - - character-front.psd
- - - - - character-front-rig.moho
- sets
- - set1
- - - set1.psd
- - - set1.moho
- chapters
- - chapter1
- - - c1.scene-1.moho
- - - c1.scene-1-bg.png
I rig up the head with switch layers to choose e.g. eyes and mouths.
Then to create the character-body rig I import the character-head.mono (with "import by reference" checked), and rig up the bones and clean up the motions.
To create a scene I duplicate the set, and import the characters (again with "import by reference" checked).
So far everything makes sense and largely works. But every time I switch computers and open an existing scene, every time it tells me that it can't find any of the .psd files, so I have to navigate via the "rigs" folder to each asset. That is a PITA.
Am I overcomplicating things? Is there a better way to approach this?