Project portability how to
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 6:22 pm
During time I ve added lots of custom materials, climates, settings. Now I have no idea, what I changed/added. Each version is saving these information into its individual settings (C:\Users\...), so migration to higher version require manual migration of all changes, because I need all these files.
Because of this, I ve decided to add all custom/modified files into project directory, but for example path for climates will always return to "C:\Users\JW\L3DT\resources\Pro 15.05.0.2\Climates" after saving and restarting project. Materials path seems saved, but when open project in higher version, I cant again load these files. Only solution is to copy all these files into "C:\Users\JW\L3DT\resources\Pro 15.05.0.2\Climates" (or some actual working version). Sotimes it is quite tricky, it takes loots of time to indentify what changed, I see all the time errors like: - cannot retrieve land type 28 in climate 'Temperate (coastal)'. I can fix it, but it takes time....
There is also problem with absolute path. So if I deploy project on other computer (via version cotrol system), it will not work, unless path is same.
Is there any approach how to solve this? Best solution would be, if all changes of configuration will be always saved into the project. And never use version/computer dependent directories in C:\Users. Thanks.
Because of this, I ve decided to add all custom/modified files into project directory, but for example path for climates will always return to "C:\Users\JW\L3DT\resources\Pro 15.05.0.2\Climates" after saving and restarting project. Materials path seems saved, but when open project in higher version, I cant again load these files. Only solution is to copy all these files into "C:\Users\JW\L3DT\resources\Pro 15.05.0.2\Climates" (or some actual working version). Sotimes it is quite tricky, it takes loots of time to indentify what changed, I see all the time errors like: - cannot retrieve land type 28 in climate 'Temperate (coastal)'. I can fix it, but it takes time....
There is also problem with absolute path. So if I deploy project on other computer (via version cotrol system), it will not work, unless path is same.
Is there any approach how to solve this? Best solution would be, if all changes of configuration will be always saved into the project. And never use version/computer dependent directories in C:\Users. Thanks.