com, which will take you further with many
of the book??™s chapters
?—? Full-sized color images of this book??™s figures
?—? Free textures
?—? A 30-Day Trial version of LightWave v9
See Appendix B, ???What??™s on the DVD,??? for more detailed information.
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Introduction xxi
Installing the Practice Files
Too often, readers install a book??™s DVD into their drive and then try to open scenes. Sure
enough, an error appears that LightWave ???can??™t find??? a necessary object or image. This is
not a defective DVD, but rather has to do with LightWave??™s Content Directory.You??™ll learn
more about this as the chapters progress. Basically, the Content Directory tells LightWave
3D where to look for files. If you press the o key (not zero) in LightWave Layout or
Modeler, you??™ll get the General Options panel. Click to the Paths tab.At the top of that tab,
you can click the Content Directory button. Set the Content Directory to point to
yourDVDdrive://Projects. That??™s it!
Note
Within the Projects folder is an Images folder for necessary textures and images, an
Objects folder containing LightWave 3D objects, and finally a Scenes folder that is home
to this book??™s LightWave scenes.
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