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Using project folders

Using project folders - 3ds Max Tutorial

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Using project folders

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- [Instructor] Like many 3D programs, Max relies on a project folder structure to track the links between various dependent files. When you open up a scene file, that scene file will have links to other files such as textures and sounds and maybe photometric data or lots of other things like dynamic simulation caches and so on. All that different data needs to be stored somewhere that the program can find it and that's usually done through a project folder. If you have the exercise files that I've provided with this course, you'll now want to point 3ds Max at that project folder. If you don't have the exercise files, then you'll want to create your own project folder. Let's look at creating a project first. We'll want to create the root folder from the Windows interface. So I'm going to minimize 3ds Max and in Windows, I'm going to create a folder on my desktop. Right click and choose New, Folder, and I'll call it 3ds…

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