Mitch

Hi @calbzam So it's coming up to a year since I posted this question, just wondering if there's been any discussion about the issue internally? It's still routinely an issue that we come up against in our production workflow.

Our situation is that we have a repository for the source art in our game project. It contains source files for our characters (e.g. Zbrush, Maya, Substance, Houdini), animations (Maya), environment (Blender, Houdini), and more. The animation team (my dept) need access to some of the character assets for rigging and animation, but not all of the gigabytes worth of Zbrush sculpts and the like. The folders are structured so each character has its own subfolders for different types of assets. I only want to sync the Maya folder for each character. I want to just say "Sync the characters folder, excluding these file types" which is trivial to do with the regular client. With Gluon, I have to configure the workspace, and only include the specific 'Maya' folder for each character. Then, when a new character/outfit/prop/etc is added, I need to go back into the workspace configuration and manually include its respective Maya folder. Same goes for any other type of file stored under the 'Characters' folder which I want sync. It needs to be manually added to the workspace, because I can't just tell Gluon to keep the whole folder up to date. The cloaked.conf (or something like it) would make this incredibly simple, because I could just tell it to skip .ztl or .spp files, and wouldn't need to continually reconfigure my workspace.

Same here, our studio has lost access to all repositories. I can manually ping asiaeast1-00-cloud.plasticscm.com and I get a response. I can even complete the server sign-in, but can't access the actual server.

No updates on this? Still having instances of wondering why I'm not getting new files before remembering that I have to yet again edit my Gluon workspace configuration.

As an example, this is what I have been having to manually configure every time a new asset is added to the repository. I am only interested in syncing the "Maya" folder under each asset, but the character artists need the Zbrush (*.ztl) and Substance Painter (*.spp) files. Those assets are gigabytes in size and so anyone who doesn't need them shouldn't be syncing them. Currently, the character artists need to say "hey, there are new folders you need to add to your config" whenever a new asset is created. This could be solved if I were able to specify file types or folder names to exclude.

Good to hear it's not just me. This is still a regular issue for me, to the point that I'm finding Gluon to be more cumbersome than just dealing with regular PlasticSCM client. Constantly having to manually manage which folders to include and exclude whenever new assets are added is a real problem. Gluon is presented as a tool tailored for artists, but this is something teams of artists need to be able to do. Would really appreciate a way to get similar functionality as the cloaked.conf file.

Sorry, I might have phrased my question a bit poorly. I'm not actually trying to share a workspace configuration with anyone else, I just want to be able to configure my workspace so that I can exclude particular file-types or folders of a certain name from ever being downloaded from the server, similar to putting them into the cloaked.conf with the regular Plastic client.

Hi, I was curious how one would replicate the functionality of a cloaked.conf file in Gluon. My specific use-case is that we have a repository for the artists on our project, and while I need access to some of the character Maya files for animation, I don't need all of the Zbrush/Substance/etc files. In PlasticSCM I would just add 'Zbrush' or '*.ztl' to the cloaked list and never have to worry about it. But with our directory structure, where each character folder has its own Zbrush folder, I have to manually exclude it for each character, and remember to do so any time a new character is added. Ideally, I'd like to be able to just configure Gluon so it never downloads any folders named Zbrush/Substance/etc rather than manually excluding them. Is this possible?