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Introduction / Creating a Project

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So this section will explain to us how to create a project within the project folder. To do this you go to file, project, new. Whenever you start something it's important to create a project. And then take all of the material that's associated with that project and put it a textures for example, in the textures directory - scenes obviously should go in the scene folder. Let's look at this here - up here you enter the name for the new project. So I am going to highlight and I will call this blank 2. Now I am going to scroll down - let's look at all of these scene file (we've got scene file locations as I scroll down) and project data locations. Usually what I do, you can enter names manually in each one of these fields, but I am going to click on use default. And you will see that the default title names for all of these at different folders are entered. And in order to create a new project let us click accept. Now when I go to file, open scene, you will see that up here a path has been created - we've got Maya projects blank2 and scenes. Now if I navigate up to blank 2 you will see that all of these are all now empty folders that have been created within the project blank2. And now we will go up to projects and you will see now we've got blank and blank 2. Blank was created for the demo in the last section and blank2 is the one we just created. So at this point you may or you probably will not be creating projects. If you don't create projects all of your material ends up in the default project and that can be very difficult to organize, so I wanted to bring this up. Now when you are working you can also go to file, project, set. And now I can go to any one of these projects that Chuck has, let's go back to blank, because we are in blank2, and click ok. And now when I go to file open scene you will see that I am in blank scenes and if I navigate up I am working within the blank project. So at any given time you can say "hey I am going to bail out of this one project go in to another project" and you do that by going file, project, set. I am not going to talk about 'edit current' but understand that new projects are created to differentiate between or allow you to be organized with your material. And 'set project' allows you to simply select a project to work on.

Tutorial Information

Course: Maya Fundamentals
Author: Chuck Grieb
SKU: 33402
ISBN: 1932072136
Release Date: 2002-12-05
Duration: 7 hrs / 106 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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