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, one environment 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 (one that contains no jobs, images, or palette information).
- From the top menu, select Environment > 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.
- In the Create Environment field, enter a name for the new project.
- To grant the user with the rights to modify all the scene assets (drawing, scene setup, palette lists, etc.), select the Change Asset Lock option.
- Click Create.
The new environment appears in alphabetical order in the Environments list.
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command.- In the environment section, select the environment to delete from the Environment list.
- Select Environment > Delete.
The Confirm dialog box appears.
- Click OK.