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Plastic is very fast (but not in UE4) supports file locking, handles very large binary projects and is relatively inexpensive. We bought Plastic to enable source control for working with Unreal Engine. For that task, Plastic has been a big disappointment (see below). But for managing 3D graphics projects after our team went remote during Covid, Plastic has been fantastic. Plastic is unbelievably fast at scanning and syncing huge binary projects. The Glueon interface lets artists selectively sync only the parts of the project that they need to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The UE4 plugin is unbelievably slow and unreliable. As I write this review, I have been waiting for over 30 minutes to rename 139 files using the UE4 plugin, most of that time the status is "Updating source control status..." Syncing projects from the plugin while in UE are very slow and usually crashes the editor. (In Perforce, syncs from the UE editor were fast.) We almost always use Glueon to push or pull changes from the repository. It's very fast, but we usually need to re-open the UE project every time. Basic file operations, like the rename I'm waiting for, are obscenely slow.
Our Plastic workspaces routinely disappear and need to be remade. This is usually quick, Plastic just scans the workspace folder, but causes potential issues with phantom file locks.
The GUIs are great, but weirdly there is no GUI for the admin tools. Need to manually unlock 12 files? You will have to list all locked file (100's...) find the GUID for each file and paste it into an unlock command-line one at a time...
Plastic frequently gets confused about files that have been moved and/or renamed. Sometimes Plastic interprets moves as moves, sometimes it interprets them as deletes and adds, and often it only gets part of it right and gives up.
Plastic's error messages are often obtuse and offer no real help for typical users.
I would recommend Plastic because it's affordable and usually reliable but it does not live up to it's promise, especially with UE4. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
35 out of 36 Total Reviews for Plastic SCM
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It have new experience from other, it's is flexible to use and it's comes with GUI which help to more visualize the environment and we can use it cloud environment easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Cost is one of the factor and open source git is more famous because free source and easy management of repo and data.
No data limited.
Scm has issue with large size of data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
file locking and excellent in Implementing branch per task dev. plastic always rocks it.file locking is an excellent feature by the plastic scm and also provide unlimited file size capability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Nowadays, the developers are writing the source code with modern development practices , so Plastic lacks in frequents branching and merging and ability to interact with the outisde projects are easier in git compared to plastic scm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Good UX. Solves for all the corner cases we had. Very good in terms of user controls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Repo management is slightly triciker for a first timer on Plastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
File locking is an excellant feature by plastic SCM much appreciated size capacity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It's not that user friendly, No good source of learning and need to improve the UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like this product only for two things 1. Different cloud rather than Public
2. CICD availability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Need to improve on UI desgin ,. Felt bit not user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
