Garshasp Development Blog

Hi,

One of the tasks that I’ve been honored to for Garshasp’s project, beside regular coding and special effects, under the term of “Technical Director”, is to manage art assets and taking regular backups of all “things” we have, which includes our code repository, art assets and such.

Its better to talk about each of those tasks in a separate post(s) in order to keep things more clear and under control.

We are all used to burning discs and compressing files, aren’t we? So you, like we did, would think its easy to backup assets of the project, you just right click and select “Add to Archive” and just open your favorite burning software *cough* Nero *cough* and drag and drop, “piece of cake”  (Rest in peace, Duke). And as you might’ve expect, you are wrong. (it was clear that you were wrong or I wouldn’t write this post) When things get out of ordinary size, like your files just get over 2 GiB and your good ol’ ISO format is not your good ol’ friend anymore or burned discs show different contents on different computers and you get used to have CRC error of different files while opening an tested archive, you get (or forced to) think that its more complicated, man.

I believe its one of the things that makes a person, professional. Like having your pictures developed by a normal photo agency which does photocopy and all other stuff or a big one that is focused on doing one thing, its the professionality.

Just when things get a little out of ordinary, its imminent to change directions that you would follow before. For instance your good ol’ ISO format will be substituted to UDF and such.

Same thing goes for art asset management, having directories that containt thousands and tousands of files that windows try to cache …