Perforce for Version Control:

This project is about setting up Perforce for independent development.

Use Case: Perforce is good for Version control with binaries, it has to be self-hosted. It can be hosted on-prem or in the cloud. For this project it will be hosted on-prem with a VM. Similar practice can be applied to the cloud.

Why not Github or Git + LFS: I have tried these options and there are limiations such as:

• File size limits for binaries

In order to get this setup the following had to be setup:

• Designate a VM as a server
• Install Perforce on a server VM
  • install client on test machine
  • open up firewall rules to allow connections to perforce server
  • setup example workspace
  • setup example user to connect to perforce workspace
• Setup Game Engine
  • Integrate Game Engine with Perforce
• Setup CD software such as jenkins to create automatic builds of the game

Lessons Learned:

• Setting up firewall rules to control access to perforce is necessary

References:

• Configure Helix for Game Engines

• Setup Perforce with Unity 7 minutes

• Game Development Ops - Hosting your local Perforce Server

• Getting Started with P4V

• Perforce Helix Core Beginner's Guide

• Perforce with Jenkins

• Perforce Streams

• Source Control and Remote Team Collaboration

• Perforce Setup