So i have been learning unreal engine 4 for the last few months. Any who I was to officially start working on a project. Problem is I work on two different computers and moving files between thumb drives is annoying. I tried SVN Tortoise but had issues where it put my whole comp on the server. Then I tried github and bitbucket but every commit took hours, also I don’t really understand github or bitbucket too much. SVN Tortoise was easier for me to learn. I was told dropbox had a server thing now, but you have to pay for more than 2GB which just doesn’t seem possible with game Dev. Can someone please give me some advice has how to proceed further. I would also maybe like to have other people join later on.
Any help or advice would be appreciated
You can get an external SSD that only requires power via usb 3 and transfer your project (with the engine) on that. Then, just edit stuff only on the ssd and you are golden. I’m not sure if you also need to move the cache on the ssd as well.
I have an external Hard drive not sure if it’s an SSD but it’s a terabyte… That is a pretty good idea didn’t even think about that xD running it on that. I might use that till I find a more permanent solution. Mine runs on USB 2? do I need to get a new external ssd that runs on usb 3? If so why? Is there a way to find out about the cache memory to?
Thanks I’ll look into this.
Moving between computers this way seems to have corrupted one of my maps in the project.
SVN works fine, you just have to set up the ignore filters so that you’re only committing source code and assets, not 20 GB of binaries. Perforce is a good alternative as well as mentioned.
As for not using version control… there are only two kinds of people in the world: those who use version control, and those who wish they had.
This. It’s definitely worth learning the basics of something like Git or Perforce. There’s plenty of example .gitignore setups around that will take care of excluding the parts you don’t want :
Well I want to use SVN tortoise but it uploaded my whole comp and I watched a tutorial. So idk if there was a better tutorial that would help. Also when I tried bitbucket and github they took 2hrs + to upload 1-3gb worth of content… No idea why.
Yeah not exactly sure whats going on in that link, is just saying the type of files that are allowed and not allowed?