3ds max Getting Started Using project folders And with my project now set to the exercise files, if I go to the file menu and choose open, I should be taken to my current project scenes folder and that is in fact what has happened. And here are all the scenes for the course, alright. I'll cancel out of that, alright. So I've set up my projects. If I want to switch to a recent project, all I have to do is choose it from the pull-down list here. So I can for example switch over to the 3ds Max essential training project. One last thing to mention, if you open a scene file that's in a different project than the current one, then 3ds Max will ask you if you want to switch projects or not. Let's say that I have my project currently set to 3ds Max essential training, but then I try to open a file from a different project, I'll do that. Go to the file menu, and choose open, and then navigate to a completely different project. Desktop, exercise files, scenes, and I'll open the file 0104project.max, click open and I get a dialogue warning me about a project mismatch. Here I can choose whether or not I want to change the current project to match that of the incoming file. Usually you do want to do this. You want to change the project so that the incoming scene file can find all of its dependent assets, such as texture files. If you choose don't ask again, then 3ds Max will automatically switch projects for you until the next session, that is until the next time you launch the program. I'm going to leave that switch off, so that I will always be notified of any future mismatch. Click continue, and the file is loaded, it's just got one sphere in it, and the project has been switched over now to the exercise files. Alright that's how to create, set and switch project folders. And that concludes our chapter on getting started.
