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Top: This dialog appears at load time.
Bottom: This dialog appears at render time.
List of ex ternal files—Liststhebitmapsor
photometric files that cannot be located, along
w ith their p ath names.
Co ntinue—Opens or renders the file anyway,
without loading the missing bitmaps or
photometric files.
If you continue rendering the scene, the bitmaps
do not appear, or the lights assigned m issing
photometric files will render using the default
isotropic distribution.
Cancel—Cancels the render. This button appears
only at render time.
Browse—Displays a Configure External File Paths
dialog,toletyouaddthemissingfiles’pathstothe
search sequence. This dialog has the same controls
as the C onfigure User Paths dialog > Configure
External Files Paths panel (page 3–811) .
Don’t Display This Message at R ender
Time—
Appears only when loading a scene
w ith missing files. When on, the program does not
display this dialog if you render the s cene without
resolving the missing files.
Don’t Display T his Message—Appears only at render
time. When on, the software does not display the
dialog the next time external files cannot be found.
File-Handling Utilities
Asset Br owser Utility
Utilities panel > Utilities rollout > Asset Browser button
The Asset Browser provides access from your
desktop to design content on the World Wide
Web. From w ithin the Browser you can brow se the
Internet for texture samples and product models.
This includes bitmap textures (BMP, JPG, GIF, TIF,
and TGA), or geometr y files (MAX, DWG, and
so on). You can drag these samples and models
into your scene for immediate visualization and
presentation. You can use the
Ct rl key to drag
geometry into predefined locations. You can
also use the Asset Browser to browse thumbnail
displays of bitmap textures and geometry files on
your hard disk or shared network dr ives. Then you
can either view them or drag them into your scene
or into valid map buttons or slots.
Note: The thumbnail display of a geometry file is a
bitmap representation of a view of the geometry.
Since the thumbnail display is not a vector-based
representation, you can’t rotate it or perform
zooms on it.
You can drag most graphic images that are
embedded in a Web page into your scene. The
exceptionisimagesorregionsofaWebpagethat
are tagged as hyperlinks or other HTML controls