Lock was duplicated on other side

[nickardiamond]

Title explains it, I must have missed the step where he separated the the mirror metal strips on the back side of the chest and I got the lock on both sides. Is there any way to undo this without completely deleting and starting over on these details?

[Kent Trammell]

Yes you can definitely fix this without starting over. Have you been saving incrementally?

[Matthew Fricker]

Something that may help you in the future – I make a collection (known as layers before 2.8 came along) and name it “Spares” . Then whenever I think I am going to make a big , destructive change to an object , I duplicate it , suffix it’s name with _spare and move it to the spares collection (that I keep hidden in the 3dvp) . That way if I ever need to go back , or I don’t like what i’ve done , I can bring back the spare copy and try again without having to model the object from scratch. 

This method has saved me so many times, and when I finish the modelling stage , I delete the spares collection to give me a clean copy of the file without any un-necessary extra objects cluttering it up. 

As Kent also says , incremental saving means you will always have an earlier iteration of your project to go back to if really needed. I always keep 5 incremental saves active and delete the oldest one as I save a new one to conserve file space on my SSD. 

[nickardiamond]

By incremental saving you mean saving the project as a new file? I have not been doing this, only ctrl+s every few steps I do. In the future I will definitely take your advice and start saving spares!

[nickardiamond]

I don’t believe so, just ctrl+s whenever I remember to.

[Matthew Fricker]

Yes , save your file with a _1 suffix, then the next one as a _2 and so on. You don’t have to do this with every save , I tend to save an incremental save at the end of a session. If you do that and also save spares then you should rarely have any type of crisis that results in hours of reworking. 

Over time you fill find yourself starting to actively think about your Blender workflow and start to become smarter in the way that you work to become more efficient and have less disasters 🙂 

[nickardiamond]

Thank you for the advice! I will definitely start incorporating this practice into my work. Great feedback 🙂

[Kent Trammell]

@frikkr giving great advice here. I too use the “spare” approach thought I usually call it “utitly”. Spare makes more sense ha.

And I apologize @nickardiamond because I don’t think I was clear in the course about the importance of incremental saves. If you want to provide a download link to your .blend I could look for a way to fix the mirrored lock without having to redo everything. NOTE: The best way to share .blend files here is by uploading to dropbox or equivalent file hosting service and posting a download link.

[nickardiamond]

That would be great! If you do find a way to fix it can you please let me know how it was done so I can learn that kind of workaround in case this happens again in the future?

Here is the link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqfgyqg7zao4s7m/Chest_Tutorial.blend?dl=0

[Kent Trammell]

@nickardiamond Absolutely I’ll take a look and let you know how to fix. This week I’m on vacation without reliable access to Blender (on a chromebook) but first thing when I’m back I will troubleshoot it.

[aster47]

I have the same problem. It was never shown in the Course.

Edit: I skipped to the next chapter to see the back of the chest and the lock was duplicated.

So… i dunno

[Kent Trammell]

@aster47 @nickardiamond Here’s a quick video about fixing the unwanted lock duplication:

[Keith]

That’s a pretty awesome idea Matthew!  I did know about incremental saves (though I admit, I’m not very dilligent with them); but I never thought about having dups in a spare collection.  Good stuff!

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