Managing Environments
Harmony uses environments to manage and organize related projects. Using environments allows you to organize your production projects by their nature or type.
If your projects center around episodic and commercial types of work, you can create two environments. For example, there can be one called commercials and the other called the_show. Then you can insert the jobs that relate to each type of project. When you want to work on a commercial project, open the commercials environment and select the commercial job you need. Similarly, if you want to work on an episodic project, open the environment called the_show.
Environment | Job | |
commercials |
dentist |
sc_001 sc_002 |
soda |
sc_001 |
|
cereal |
sc_001 |
|
the_show | sho_001 |
sc_001 sc_002 |
sho_002 |
sc_001 | |
dentist |
sc_001 sc_002 |
When you are ready to remove old environments, you can delete them from the database. However, in order to prevent accidental loss of data, you can only delete an empty environment (an environment that contains no jobs, images, or palette information).
1. | Do one of the following: |
‣ | From the top menu, select Environment > Create. |
‣ | Right-click in the Environments section and select Create. |
In mixed platform Environments (Windows/Mac OS X and Windows/Linux) it is best to name everything in lowercase so data can be interpreted the same way on each operating system. The same is true if working between studios using Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The Create Environment dialog box appears.
2. | In the Environment Name field, type the new project's name. |
3. | If you want the user to automatically get the rights to modify all the scene assets (drawing, scene setup, palette lists, etc.), select the Get Rights to Modify All Scene Assets option. |
4. | Click OK. |
The new environment appears in alphabetical order in the Environments list.
After you create an environment, you must add it to the Batch Processing queue so it can vectorize and render the drawings and scenes automatically. You only have to add the environment to the Batch Processing queue once.
1. | In the environment section, select the environment to delete from the Environments list. |
2. | Do one of the following: |
‣ | From the top menu, select Environment > Delete. |
‣ | Right-click in the Environments section and select Delete. |
The Confirm dialog box appears.
3. | Click Yes to delete the selected Environment. |
The environment no longer appears in the Environments list.