Notices by Sander van Rossen🇺🇦🇪🇺 (logicalerror@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@thomasfuchs @Migueldeicaza wait, you only have 6 phones??? weeeird

@sinbad yeah I kept it around for the same reason, but deleted it in december too

@sinbad why? are the generated file names not human readable?

So a thing that's been in my mind for a while is that for a long time one of the reasons we'd put all our game resources in very large files was because mechanical harddrives had horrible seek times..
but this isn't true anymore for ssd's
now I'm not saying that there aren't other reasons for putting all your assets in a large file, there definitely are, but at least on the editor side of things maybe things could be a bit more .. loose

take unity's scene files for example, they contain game objects but can also contain resources like meshes etc
what if instead of storing all that in a file, we simply have folders for our "scene files"?
files/sub folders could be locked in version control individually, making collaboration simpler
merge conflicts would be a lot simpler to deal with too

objects would have unique file ids, would be updated through import system. they'd basically be unity prefabs. instances of prefabs would be prefab variants.
moving, renaming of objects would be file operations
since you'd have folders you could have folders in your hierarchy
transformation hierarchies would be more complicated to handle ux wise though, but maybe this should be a separate hierarchy anyway? maybe?

@aeva that's crazy, that's 5 years in the future

@djlink yeah, they recently found this thing in the melting ice