Bucket Subfolders? How to random select through a large list of content?

[darashayda]

Tim had mentioned something about folders or sub-folders and I like to learn more about them.

Example: We have an Anime character as you saw in our demos.

We like to re-dress her, change the weapons and even the mocap animations. Either the player requests new content or the game controller ransom select.

We know how to do that in previous Unity settings, we need to learn and understand how to do that in CCN Bucket scheme.

Simple snippet of lines of code or some sample project would do.

We do not want awefully complicated schemes, the simplest for the starter.

Dara

[llunity3d]

Hi Dara,
Thanks for your interest in CCD!
Unfortunately we are unable to provide you with a definitive solution since it is not specific to CCD. It is more a of an open suggestion. You could use a subfolder, then in your code randomly select a file:
models/model1.model
models/model2.model
models/model3.model
I hope this helps, thanks you again for you feedback!

[darashayda]

This is not my suggestion this was Tim at CCD team suggestion:

Very Large variations of the same object: How to organize in Buckets?

Conceptually we think about buckets as a way to organize into high level concepts like environments, platforms, etc, and to move vetted content between them. So for instance moving content from a development bucket to a production bucket. You could certainly do what you’re suggesting with a bucket per generated asset type, but you can also create folders inside a bucket. Would that be a better construct? I would suggest that in this way you could, for instance, generate thousands of new rocks i…

models/model1.model
models/model2.model
models/model3.model

This has some issues:

1. We use third party non-Unity software to generate huge assets e.g. medical assets

2. We do store them as you had mentioned in some directory form, but they are on our linux servers not inside Unity Project. These assets are in many TB sizes and impractical for Unity Editor.

3. There is an external upload option for CCD,we used it and it works, but we are not sure ;

A. How to make directories, since it dumps files into /

B. Is that copying into the external backend the right way for these directories.

If we understand how to do A-B , we can then variate the huge assets without your assistance .

Regards

Dara

[llunity3d]

Hi @darashayda ,

For A. there is two options for grouping files.

1. When creating an entry you can specify a path, lets say /modes/ , that would allow you to dump files in different directories in your bucket, allowing you to group things like you want.

2. You could also use labels when creating an entry and get entries by those label, that would also allow you to group files like you want.

For B. no need to worry about the backend, that is handle by our side!

Thanks again for using CCD,

Regards