Marcel SF
PDPolygonflow Dash
•Created by Marcel SF on 11/1/2024 in #dash-feedback
Shared Library Project - Team Use
Our small team is currently evaluation the use of dash, primarily delving into the use of the dash content browser and external project library feature as an effective way of allowing our extensive asset library to be available in new projects.
We have created a UE project that only contains our library with a well organised folder structure and assets. We computed the assets and specified materials to be computed as well. This library is connected to a perforce depot to allow it to be synced and shared, currently this is most common way to do this with UE projects.
However, the limitation we have found is, once each artist gets the latest sync of this depot stream, each individually needs to regularly open the library project, compute the assets, waste valuable resources and credits on assets that were already computed and tagged.
Currently from my understanding the computed data resides in the artists local documents polygonflow folder.
I might be wrong but the current implementation of external project libraries was not designed with multiple artist in mind, however I'm really open to discuss with the dash team ways of extending this feature to cover this use case, and provide more in depth feedback on what types of features one might need in this scenario.
Designed connected - Connector software has this shared asset library at its core, incorporating a hybrid dam, accounts with different user permissions which is quite a large feature request to implement in dash. However, perhaps there is a simpler implementation of this feature in a more basic form, perhaps allowing the polygonflow data to be able to be located in local network location that all artists can reference to, or possibly in a s3 bucket or other cloud storage.
I think this feature of dash could become a very important one for teams going forward.
There is a lot more I could say on this. i.e: easily sending assets in a project back to the main library project with automatic computing.
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