Structures

Real drives

Mapped drives

From the command line:

subst A: /d 

Replace A with drive you want deleted

Artwork finder

• MusicProduction
  • Practice
  • Ideas
  • InProgress
  • FinalTouches
  • Finished
  • Publish
• DJSets
• Library
  • Samples
    • AmbiguousRoyaltySounds
    • FreeUse

• Year
  • 01_Incoming
  • 02_Outgoing

Template: YYYY-MM-DD_Location_Subject(abbreviated, PubLib (Public Library))_FileVersion.Extention
Example: 2020-12-19_Zele_PubLib_001.jpg

• YYYY-MM-DD_NameClient_NameProject
  • _Library
  • 00_Incoming
    • 01_Preproduction
    • 02_Production
  • 01_Preproduction
    • 01_Moodboard
    • 02_Storyboard
  • 02_Production
    • _Blender
    • _DaVinci
    • _Houdini
    • Scene_01
  • 03_Outgoing
    • YYYY-MM-DD

CamelCaps, geen spaties, underscores/streepjes enkel gebruiken bij opdeling filenaam.
Maak genoeg iteraties van je bestand, zodat je steeds een versie terug kan gaan, moest er iets mislopen.

Export files (FBX, OBJ) hebben steeds zelfde versienummer als work file (Blender, Maya).
Afkortingen:

• Character: CH
• Prop: P
• Foilage: F

Template: Project_SceneNumber_Modeltype-ModelName_FileVersion.Extension
Example: Silver_000_CH-Nora_v001.blend

Export files (PNG, JPG) hebben steeds zelfde versienummer als work files (Substance, Photoshop) Afkortingen:

• Diffuse: DIFF
• Ambient Oclusion: AO
• Glossines: G
• Normal: N
• Roughness: R
• Subsurface Scattering: SSS
• Metallic: M

Template: Project_SceneNumber_TextureName_FileVersion_TextureType.Extension
Example: Silver_010_NoraHair_v001_DIFF.PNG

The count of scenes starts from 010, models with the scene number 000 are not restricted to one scene.

Template: Project_SceneNumber-Description_FileVersion.Extension
Example: Silver_010-MudWorld_v001.blend

Max 5 letters voor afkortingen
Afkortingen:

• Group: GRP
• Mesh: MESH
• Curve: CRVE
• Joint: JNT
• Light: LGHT
• Camera: CAM
• Locator: LOC
• Controller: CTRL
• Low Poly: LP
• High Poly: HP
• Forces: FRCE

Template: Type_Name_PolyType
Example: GRP_Nora_LP

For my collection of reference images, I only use broad categories as folders, the other information I put in the name and metadata.

I'm using a combination of tools, including Advanced Renamer, digiKam, Python and a tool from GitHub called taggui.

First, I will change the name with Advanced Renamer.
Using TagGUI, I will then let the program generate captions into seperate text files, wich are named after the image they are describing.
Now we need the Python script to take the information from the text file, and add it to the metadata of the images.
For clean organisation, I opted to convert all files to .jpg. This to make sure the metadata is displayed in a clean way.

CATEGORY_SUBJECT_inc Nr

A description/caption in the images “Title” and “Subject” fields.

import os
from PIL import Image as PilImage, PngImagePlugin
from pyexiv2 import Image as Pyexiv2Image
 
def add_text_to_image_metadata(image_folder):
    try:
        # Iterate through all files in the specified folder
        for filename in os.listdir(image_folder):
            image_path = os.path.join(image_folder, filename)
            text_file_path = os.path.join(image_folder, f"{os.path.splitext(filename)[0]}.txt")
 
            print(f"Processing {image_path}")  # Debugging line
 
            if os.path.exists(text_file_path):
                # Read the content from the text file
                with open(text_file_path, 'r') as file:
                    caption_text = file.read()
 
                # Convert filename to lowercase for extension checking
                filename_lower = filename.lower()
 
                if filename_lower.endswith(('.jpg', '.jpeg')):
                    # Load the image's metadata
                    image = Pyexiv2Image(image_path)
 
                    # Add the caption to the image's EXIF UserComment and ImageDescription fields
                    image.modify_exif({'Exif.Photo.UserComment': caption_text, 'Exif.Image.ImageDescription': caption_text})
                elif filename_lower.endswith('.png'):
                    # Convert the PNG image to JPEG
                    image = PilImage.open(image_path)
                    rgb_image = image.convert('RGB')
                    rgb_image.save(os.path.splitext(image_path)[0] + '.jpg', 'JPEG')
 
                    # Load the image's metadata
                    image = Pyexiv2Image(os.path.splitext(image_path)[0] + '.jpg')
 
                    # Add the caption to the image's EXIF UserComment and ImageDescription fields
                    image.modify_exif({'Exif.Photo.UserComment': caption_text, 'Exif.Image.ImageDescription': caption_text})
 
                    # Delete the original PNG image
                    os.remove(image_path)
 
                # Delete the text file
                os.remove(text_file_path)
 
        print("Processing completed for all images.")
    except Exception as e:
        print(f"Error: {e}")
 
# Example usage: Specify the folder containing your images
image_folder_path = '/path/to/your/source/folder'
add_text_to_image_metadata(image_folder_path)
}();

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KCtPnam6Sk&ab_channel=TimvanHelsdingen
https://github.com/alexanderrichtertd/plex/wiki/Project-Structure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2LqKH6ahDA