I was in the same situation recently. I was working on 3 projects and needed to switch between them because of the relative textures. The best thing to do is to use maxScript to set the project folder and sub folders. When you set the project folder through the interface it creates all the extra folders you don't need. But…
One thing that I've found quite confuddling about the workflow at the moment is what the best way of managing groups of layers - while you can move around individual material layers, duplicate them etc. folders seem to be a bit of a black hole. You can't duplicate a folder and, if you place a layer into a folder, I can't…
Make sure you have Show Hidden Files and Folders turned on in the folders options. Go to documents and settings - whatever folder is your default user - Application Data - Adobe and delete the Photoshop folder there. When you reload Photoshop everything should be reset to the defaults. That's if you're using WinXP. Don't…
Hi, I did read somewhere that there might be a folder restructuring for the (custom) shelf folder in the "documents" path for Painter 2? Can I keep my custom shelf folder(s) or will it lead to conflicts with Painter 2? Thx
I use to have everything spread out where it was suppose to be.. like the scene files would be under documents, my ref would be in the pictures folder, Video related ref in the videos and Id use my Desktop to put temporary files and Id just have them all grouped as one with the W7 Libraries feature. Doing this, over time…
copying ,scripts,shelfs, hotkeys and marking menus -should- just be a matter of copying over the right folder from your mydocs/maya/8.5/ folder to the machine you're using. Edit - prefs folder holds the hotkeys in a mel file