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General Category => Anim8or v0.98 Discussion Forum => Topic started by: 5L1D3R on June 24, 2008, 01:47:08 pm

Title: Autobackup
Post by: 5L1D3R on June 24, 2008, 01:47:08 pm

How difficult would it be to implement an autobackup feature?  Those of us who forget to save before a test render would greatly appreciate it.  ;D  ...especially when we get the dreaded "Anim8or has encountered a problem and needs to close" :(

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: Steve on June 25, 2008, 02:22:03 am

This will be in the next preview update :)

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: Orange Pickle on June 25, 2008, 03:33:26 am

Thanks Steve

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: 5L1D3R on July 22, 2008, 05:01:23 pm

YES!!!!! No More models lost because of my own stupidity!!!
You have my eternal gratitude, Steve!

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: mcheccyb on July 23, 2008, 12:15:05 pm

another cool tool (wings 3d has this) would be to have anim8or automatically save your file every 10 minutes.

though it would be useful if you could save it as a new file eg. you make a file called thisisafile.an8 10 minutes later anim8or makes a new updated file called thisisafile01.an8 then thisisafile02.an8

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: RnDr FOX on July 23, 2008, 02:39:05 pm

mcheccyb that is a neat idea but if you work on something for 2 hours straight you will have alot of files on the same thing and that would take up unneeded space

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: 5L1D3R on July 23, 2008, 04:22:45 pm

The incremental backup would be more useful if you could specify triggers for the backup, like major modifications or after the scene or object has changed by a certain percentage  I usually only need 2 versions of any model I am working on.  I work until I am satisfied with the overall model, then create a second file and start experimenting.  I only overwrite the original file when I reach a point where I am satisfied with the overall progress and don't need to do any major reversion.  Rarely do I need more than 2 files

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: mcheccyb on July 25, 2008, 04:30:46 am

i save my files manually like that, it really helps in the long run.

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: Steve on July 26, 2008, 06:28:35 pm

What I've added is a user settable period for backing up your project (to a different file name so it doesn't clobber what you specifically saved).  I still need to test it and add detection code so Anim8or automatically know when there is a saved file. etc.

Title: Re: Autobackup
Post by: mcheccyb on July 29, 2008, 03:08:11 pm

thanks steve, that will really be helpful. ;D