From the course: Maya 2018 Essential Training
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Work with files and Maya projects - Maya Tutorial
From the course: Maya 2018 Essential Training
Work with files and Maya projects
- [Instructor] Maya projects can use a lot of different types of data that's pulled from a lot of different places. Now, it can use geometry data, it can have bitmap images or textures, and all of this data needs to be organized so that Maya knows where everything is. Now for this Maya uses a naming scheme called projects. Let's take a look at a simple project. I'm going to jump out to my desktop here, and just double-click on my ExerciseFiles folder. Now this is a Maya project. Now this project has known folders that have known names, so for example your scenes file is where all of your Maya scenes are. We have an images file which are where all of your output images go, so rendered images would show up here. Images used for textures and bitmap come into the sourceimages folder, so there we have those. We also have folders for things such as sound, movies, and a whole lot of other types of things. Now if you move Maya between machines, projects become even more important, because it…
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