Taking this into account, when you save a scene (which is also a text file you can read),
LightWave saves the location of any items in the scene file without the content directory
part of the location. For example, if your content folder were set to C:\Program
Files\LightWave\Content, and in your scene you had loaded an object called
final_object.lwo that was stored in a folder called My Objects and then in a subfolder called
???Final Versions,??? the scene file would have an entry that loads the object from disk like this:
LoadObjectLayer 1 My Objects\Final Versions\final_object.lwo
The LightWave program knows the top-level location of the content directory (taken
from the LW9.cfg or LightWave Layout 9 Prefs file), and the scene file knows the rest (see
Figure 15.17).
Figure 15.17 This diagram shows how the path works when a scene file is saved.
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There is a reason for this, and it??™s important! Let??™s imagine LightWave didn??™t have a content
directory preference, and instead it saved the full location of any objects, images, and
so on with the scene file.
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