My (very expensive) product only has 4 appearances, one environment, and a backplate and every time I re-adjust my ouput, I've tweaked at least six of those settings in myriad combinations. But I have to be careful to note my changes so that I can get back to a prior "best" setting. That works OK when you're not multitasking, in which case, remembering what changes you made to THAT image is inversely proportional to the number of projects on a desk.
A digital camera outputs no less than about 20 different camera and image settings that are embedded as metadata in the final .jpeg and RAW file. It's instantaneous, informative, and precise, allowing everyone access to the same clear data. Sure, Visualize allows saving of textures and camera files, but it's super clumsy and there's no way to write changes to environment parameters. Do you have a clever system for saving multiple changes to your imaging settings from Visualize? Or do you scribble numbers in some cryptic matrix on a sticky note only you can understand?
Once you're asking yourself this question, you can consider oneself a Visualize pro-user
Honestly, I open a simple Notepad doc and then take notes for HDR settings or any other relevant info i'm trying to remember, that might be specific to each camera angle (like HDR rotation). I then save this Notepad file in the same folder as the .SVPJ.
We've been wanting to hardcode metadata to each render from Visualize to capture this sort of info, but this is a difficult project to complete and other projects with higher priority take precedence.
I would love to hear from our community on this one. How do you solve this issue Rich described above for yourself??