I got this great tip from Art Howe (Newtek) from last weekends Character Animation Weekend in San Francisco...

To set up a scene as a default scene on the MAC that automatically loads when you launch Lightwaves layout, do the following:

1. Open Layout and create your desired scene setup, (i.e. light settings, nulls, camera settings, etc.) and save it to your Lightwave:3D 6.5 Programs folder.

2. Quit Layout and in a text editor (I used Simpletext), open the Lightwave cmndline file. This is the same file we usually use to enable or disable the hub.

3. All you should see in this file is a -0

4. Now type " "(quotes) before the -0

5. Next, type the complete path from your Harddrive to the lightwave scene you just saved EXACTLY as it is written, inside those quotes. This is case sensitive and if you have spaces in the file names, include it too.

6. After each path name, end it with a colon:

7. My path looks like this: "Mac HD: 3D Design:LightWave 3D 6.5:Programs:defaultlayout.lws" -0

8. Save the file.

The DETAILS: MacHD is the name of my harddrive. Next is my 3D folder that has a space in the file name and as you can see, the space is included in the path. Next is the name of my Lightwave folder, followed by the Programs folder and lastly, the scene file. The quotes contain the path and the -0 is at the end of the path is to keep the hub off.

This works like a charm and has inspired me to create all sorts of default scenes for different needs. If it is not working, recheck that your path is correct. One typo, and it will not work.

Enjoy,

Dan

TIP: Setting up a default scene	Dan Platt	07-14-01 22:22
Re: TIP: Setting up a default scene	fredrik	07-15-01 06:41
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Dan Platt	07-15-01 23:31
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	MV	07-15-01 14:56
Re: TIP: Setting up a default scene	Anonymous	07-15-01 18:16
Re: TIP: Setting up a default scene	raskalnikov2	07-16-01 01:28
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Dan Platt	07-16-01 12:25
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	kafka	07-16-01 12:38
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Anonymous	07-16-01 12:38
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	cjw	07-16-01 23:41
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Dan Platt	07-17-01 02:45
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Anonymous	07-17-01 12:05
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Dan Platt	07-17-01 12:21
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Anonymous	07-17-01 13:26
Re: TIP: Setting up a default sc	Dan Platt	07-17-01 19:24