Windows shortcuts speed up your workflow
I was just re-reading some of the latest posts on Jon Jones site, and I came across his thoughts on using a folder of Windows shortcuts to other folders.
Yes Jon, Yes. That’s something a lot of people miss, and I curse myself for not mentioning it myself.
I’m working on a fairly massive project, and I’m working with ingame characters, and cinematic characters, and stand-in cinematic characters, and exported data, and raw exported data, and the game, and the tools, spread over different folders, drives and network drives. I know where everything is (most of the time), but navigating that by going up and down and across folders is a nightmare. Programs like 3DSMax often store the last 8 or 10 folders you worked with, but at this point in time Zbrush doesn’t, so the act of finding a model and it’s textures to load is annoying. Not hard, or impossible, just annoying.
Like Jon, I’ve got a folder on my desktop called Game Shortcuts, and in this folder I have shortcuts to all my common project folders.
Incidentally, Jons site is full of useful little (and large) workflow and productivity tips, well work adding to your feed reader.
Now, back to Photoshop for me.
February 3rd, 2007 at 10:35 am
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