Will Team System be able to...
- storage really large files >1GB +
- let many rendering computers accessing a file stored in the system*.
- Are all files stored in SQL
- Can files be stored on regular network open storage outside of SQL but remained managed by Team System
*Scenario usage...
- Imagine a .JPG file used as a texture in a 3D application like Maya or 3DS MAX.
- A texture artist would work on the image.
- The .JPG file would be checked out, work on, then checked back in.
- The 3D scene file referencing the TIF file is then sent to a render farm where hundreds of computers will need to access the "embedded" .JPG file to compute an image.
Question. Would Team System or Visual Source Safe would allow so many computers accessing this item form the database all at once without the need to checkit out first
Using Team System for motion picture visual effects?
Mike Bohlander
2. You could set this up a couple of ways. The best might be to have a workspace on file server that's periodically updated with the latest -- perhaps a scheduled windows task that runs get on that workspace at defined times during the day or when a checkin occurs. That workspace's files could be shared over the network using standard windows file sharing and the render farm machines would get the files from the share.
3. Yes.
4. Not in version 1.
You would not need to have the computers check out the file. They can certainly get a read only copy by having their own workspaces or by following the solution in #2 and retrieving them from a file server.
Buck