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Organizing and managing a texture library

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Organizing and managing a texture library

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- Even though I capture textures all the time, I don't necessarily turn them into workable textures immediately. Once I do get around to it, I have a distinct way of organizing my texture resources. As I stated in a previous movie, digital files on a computer are a distinctly personal thing. Not everyone works the exact same way even if using the same software. Everything I'm going to show you in this movie as well is once again my own personal preference as it relates to categorizing and managing my own texture library. Let me show you how I go about organizing my file texture sets on my own internal system to make access and usage easier. The first thing I want to show you is how I arrange the hierarchy of my texture sets within my own file system. This doesn't require any software here. I'm just talking about the OS you use. I work on Mac, so it's Mac OS, but if you work on PC, your hierarchy can be the same in terms of how you organize it. I keep all of my texture files on in an…

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