managing 100+ actors

pjnolen

I'm inching into the 100 actors area, and it's difficult to manage them in the inspector window. Having to name them based on categories so i can find them is sometimes time consuming.

If I go to a particular scene, and it has 3 actors, finding those 3 actors in 100 is rough sometimes. Perhaps a tab at the top next to 'actors' called 'actors in scene'? So I can work with that scene without having to scroll scroll look look scroll scroll look look. Or having to categorically name the new actors according to scene, and manually group them together, but still having to scroll to look for that group.

Any chance that there will be features added to make this a little easier to manage?

Maybe adding 'folders' to actors, so you create a folder in the 'actors' tab, and put all the actors inside it for a particular scene would be cool.

simo103

hi pjnolen .. and just like that Gamesalad answers your prays! ;^)

http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:gsc_create_a_tag

pjnolen

hey thanks simo, that's pretty handy.

Maybe in an update in the future this sort of thing can be done dynamically by GS. It will do it in the background. I think it would be more comfortable working with each scene and just it's actors individually. Or at least have that option available.

edit: oh wait, it kinda does that lol!

If you edit an actor and hit the back button it takes you back to the main list, and you have to hit the dropdown again, maybe if back brought you back to that one scene's actors again would be handy.

holy crap this makes it so much easier

simo103

agreed .. the back button could use some work .. ie: it takes you back to what you were on. I use the scene layer list alot to select actors to edit and when I click back I get the actor images panel, I then have to select the scene tab and then click the triangle next to the layer to open the list each time. Adds up if you do that 30 or 40 times.

StormyStudio

simo103 said:
agreed .. the back button could use some work .. ie: it takes you back to what you were on. I use the scene layer list alot to select actors to edit and when I click back I get the actor images panel, I then have to select the scene tab and then click the triangle next to the layer to open the list each time. Adds up if you do that 30 or 40 times.

yep...it's a simple thing but would be nice if it remembered what layers you had open,

FranzKeller

with a hundred actors, you may need to "Get an Agent"! Hollywood joke.

Sounds like a very complicated game - what is is?