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How to Duplicate and Clone Projects

CreativeHub provides robust capabilities for managing your projects, including options to duplicate and clone projects. These features are designed to help you easily create copies of projects and transfer them for modification or collaboration.

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Duplicating a project means making an additional copy of the project in CreativeHub.
Cloning a project means copying the project from CreativeHub to your local disk.

Here's a short guide on how to use these features.

Duplicating a Project

Duplicating a project in Creative Hub allows you to make an exact copy within the CreativeHub itself. This can be useful when you want to work on a new version or iteration of a project without affecting the original.

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It is important to note, that cloning a project will not duplicate the files in the storage, this ensures that storage space is used efficiently.
Instead, cloned project files are referenced to each other. This is handled by CreativeHub for you.

Steps to Duplicate a Project

  • Navigate to the Project: Open CreativeHub and navigate to the project you want to duplicate.
  • Select Duplicate: Click the button next to the project and click the 'Duplicate Project' from the context menu.
  • Confirm Duplication: You can now rename the project. You may start working on the duplicate independently of the original after Cloning the project.

Cloning a Project

Cloning a project is a simple process that allows you to transfer a project, including all its files, to your local disk, allowing you to edit your project using the files on your local disk and not work over the network. This is especially useful when you need to work on a project outside the Creative Hub or share it with others.

Steps to Clone a Project

  • Select Clone: With the duplicated project highlighted, click the 'Clone Project' button.
  • Choose Destination: A prompt will appear asking you to select a folder on your local disk where the project will be saved, or also you may create a new folder by clicking in the top right of the modal window, and then typing the name of a new folder in the chosen path.
  • Transfer Files: The project, along with all necessary files, will be transferred to the chosen location. You can now open and modify this project locally using your preferred tools.

Tips for Effective Project Management

  • Clear Naming Conventions: provide clear details in the commit messages to help you understand what was changed, allowing you to switch back to the commit if needed.

  • Regular Commits: You can revert back to a different commit at any time. Doing frequent commits, will allow you to have many “backup points” to jump to if needed.

  • Clone Projects for versioning: If you need to make a new version of a project, you can achieve this by cloning the project. By utilizing the clone feature in Creative Hub, you can streamline your project management process, ensuring flexibility and security in your creative workflows.

When you make any changes to the project in the Unreal Engine, those newly modified files appear in the Commit View, where you may ‘Commit Changes’ by choosing the needful files to commit, or ‘Discard’ some or all of the changes.

Regarding ‘Commit Changes’ and ‘Discard Changes’ please go to the Commit View section.