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Subspace

An objective is the purpose of your work (obviously 😄). To achieve a big objective, you usually need many smaller objectives. But objectives are abstract—they only become real through concrete source files or folders. These files and folders are called subspaces.

So the best way to name a subspace is to use its objective.

Pathname

├── Subspaces/
│   ╰── Short01/
│       ├── Assets/
│       │   ├── CharA/
│       │   │   ├── CharA.zbr
│       │   │   ├── CharA.zbr
│       │   │   ├── CharA.spp
│       │   │   ├── CharA.blend
│       │   │   ╰── CharA.v001.blend
│       │   ╰── CharB.blend
│       ├── Sc010.blend
│       ╰── Sc020.blend

The folder structure clearly shows multi‑level objectives. From each file, we can see:

Subspace	Objective	Path
Short01/	Make short film Short01	Short01
Assets/	Prepare assets	Short01 / Assets
CharA/	Prepare character CharA	Short01 / Assets / CharA
CharA.zbr	Sculpt CharA	Short01 / Assets / CharA
CharA.spp	Paint CharA’s materials	Short01 / Assets / CharA
CharA.blend	Rig CharA	Short01 / Assets / CharA
CharA.v001.blend	Backup	Short01 / Assets / CharA
CharB.blend	Prepare character CharB	Short01 / Assets / CharB
Sc010.blend	Scene 010	Short01 / Sc010
Sc020.blend	Scene 020	Short01 / Sc020

Multi‑level objectives ordered from largest to smallest form the subspace path.

A name generated from this path is called a pathname.

For example:

• Short01/Sc010.blend → pathname is Short01_Sc010
• Short02/Sc010.blend → pathname is Short02_Sc010

Pathnames are used to generate meaningful, non‑conflicting export paths.

Objective Tree

If we combine all these paths, we get a tree structure called an objective tree.

You can also create the same objective tree using prefixes instead of folders:

├── Subspaces
│   ├── Short01_Assets_CharA.zbr
│   ├── Short01_Assets_CharA.spp
│   ├── Short01_Assets_CharA.blend
│   ├── Short01_Assets_CharA.v001.blend
│   ├── Short01_Assets_CharB.blend
│   ├── Short01_Seq010.blend
│   ╰── Short01_Seq020.blend

You don’t even need prefixes like Short01_ or Short01_Assets_, and you don’t need folders. You can just use Seq010.blend or CharA.blend.

Folders and prefixes are only needed when you have naming conflicts or too many files. You can keep everything flat if you want.