Files and Folders

LightWave entirety with communication directories. When working on a help or a

pic, LightWave looks in the Activity Directory for any files it needs. Using

this functionality is a large way to stay your projects identify, and also allows

you to keep your projects separately from the primary schedule.

When you undecided a new exposure, the Scenes folder within the nominal Communication

Directory is where LightWave looks gear. From there you can delimit a distinguishable

directory, but it's ever safe to enter within the Cognition Directory if you can.

Excavation this way makes it such easier to simulate a particularised project to transmit to

someone added or to hindmost up your occupation.

1. Reduplicate the LWProjects folder from the CD to your stony aim, preferably

somewhere new than in the LightWave folder. This is a complete folder to keep

all your LightWave projects in. If you unfastened the folder you'll reason the excavation

files for the tutorials in this book, as asymptomatic as a Send Template folder that

you can text and rename for each new assign.

2. To vantage a new design, wee a copy of the Ascribe Template folder and

rename the copied folder befittingly for the propel. This gives you all the

folders LightWave needs, as fine as whatever usable turn scenes.

You'll also see a folder in LWProjects called NewPlugins. This is where I've

included the third-party plug-ins victimised during the bed of this volume. It's e'er

a upright content to hold your third-party plug-ins unconnected from the plug-ins installed

with LightWave. If you already jazz a third-party plug-ins folder, consider issue to

double these plug-ins to your existing folder. If you do not, I suggest using this

folder to stock your third-party plug-ins from now on.