headus 3D tools

[TwoSheds]

I didn't know what else to title this thread.

So what I'm talking about is, if you open a .uvl file and make some changes and hit the E button, you get a file called "edit01.uvl" in the same folder, all further saves made that way will have the numbers appended to the word "edit", i.e., 01, 02, 03, and so on.

I was wondering if it would be possible to have the name of the file included?
So if I'm working on a file called "Creature.uvl", the saves made with the E button would be titled "Creature_edit01.uvl", "Creature_edit02.uvl", "Creature_edit03.uvl", and so on.

Just because if there are several .uvl files of different objects in a folder, it would make it easier to keep track of it all, if everything had a different name like that, and would save time having to manually save out each file with a different name.

But I should probably just have a separate folder for each project, right?
Nevertheless, it would be a more standard way of doing incremental saves.

[headus]

A good suggestion! I've just been working on the saves already ... the next release does auto save ... so that part of the code is fresh in my mind.

Phil

[TwoSheds]

Sounds good, Phil.

Alternatively, it could be something like "FileName_v001.uvl", "FileName_v002.uvl", "FileName_v003.uvl", and so on.
v for incremental version number, and without the word "edit" at all.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of autosave are you talking about? A .bak file over-written every so often, or something like Adobe Premiere, which creates a user-defined number of backups in a user-defined time period, and cycles through?

[headus]

" and without the word "edit" at all."

Yep, that's possible ...

"what kind of autosave are you talking about?"

User defined period from 0 (off) to 60 minutes, cycling between 5 files like the tmp*.uvl ones. It only saves if something has changed, so you can walk away and not worry about it overwriting previous auto saves with the same data.

Phil

[TwoSheds]

Sounds great Phil.

Yeah, that's the way Premiere does it. I don't know though if it saves when you're away or not though, as I never checked.

[tzzz89]

the auto save feature is nice, very handy