My Friend Shadow model & rig file naming

Model & Rig File Naming

As an aid to readability, model and rig filenames utilize full element names ("tommy", "barberShop"...), as opposed to the abbreviated element codes used on the internal nodes ("tomy", "barb"...):

Ex.

tommy_hires_model.25.ma

tommy_lores_rig.01.ma

tommy_hires_rig.03.ma

barberShop_hires_model.07.ma

Files which are copied into the "/current" directory as the latest version have their numerical index dropped as an aid to referencing:

Ex.

tommy_hires_model.ma

tommy_lores_rig.ma

tommy_hires_rig.ma

barberShop_hires_model.ma

The terms "lores" and "hires" refer to the following regarding models and rigs:

_lores_model	a low resolution approximation of the standard polygonal model
_hires_model	the standard polygonal tessellation, irrespective of further smoothing or subdivision
_lores_rig	on characters: segmented lores geometry w. ruff skin bind on hires geometry, incl. facial
_hires_rig	on characters: the above, plus skin bind refinements & addl. deformers

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