Good Content Organization
Good organization of content is essential if you want to make your life easier in
LightWave. Storing files all over your hard drive to make up one scene will just give you
headaches, so instead try to organize your LightWave projects in a logical manner. Good
content organization is especially important when using ScreamerNet. Before I go into
this, you must first understand how LightWave finds content. Bear with me on this; it??™s
long-winded but worth a read!
Ignoring ScreamerNet for a second, start up LightWave Layout and bring up the Options
panel (use the o key or go to the drop-down menu at the left of the inteface, Edit > General
Options). The first setting you??™ll see is the Content Directory input. This is where you tell
LightWave where to look for any content files when it first tries to load anything.When
you quit the program, this location is saved, along with other settings, inside the
LightWave preference file (LW9.cfg on the PC and LightWave Layout 9 Prefs on the Mac).
If you load the preference file into a text editor (it??™s just a text file, really), among many
other entries, you will find these:
DirectoryType Scenes C:\LightWave\Scenes
DirectoryType Objects C:\LightWave\Objects
DirectoryType Surfaces C:\LightWave\Surfaces
DirectoryType Images C:\LightWave\Images
DirectoryType Previews C:\LightWave\Previews
DirectoryType Motions C:\LightWave\Motions
Note
Mac users, your LightWave directory will be found in Applications > NewTek >
LightWave 3D 9.
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