Using custom environments
can greatly increase the realism of your scenes. Adding a custom
environment library provides a convenient location to browse and
use custom environments.
NoteA custom environment
library is required to create and save any new custom environments.
User edits or additions to the default library are not allowed.
Add an environment library
- Press the E key
to open the Environments interface.
- Under the Environment Libraries section, click
the Manage button.
The environment library
management menu appears:
- Select Add
Environment Library from the menu.
- Browse to a folder that you wish to use
for custom environments, or to a folder that already has custom
environments in it.
TipBe sure you have
read and write access to the folder or network location to create,
edit and save environments, or read access to load existing custom environments
into your scene.
- Click OK in
the file browser.
The new environment library
location will be displayed in alphabetical order (by path-name)
in the Environment Libraries section.
Remove an environment library
- Press the E key
to open the Environments interface.
- Under the Environment Libraries section, click
the Manage button.
- Select Remove
Environment Library from the menu.
- Select the library to remove from the
submenus.
- Or, right-click over the path-name of
your environment library and choose Remove
Environment Library from the menu that appears.
Share environment libraries
To share environment
libraries with other users:
- Share or set permissions for the folder
containing your custom environments to allow read access at the
very minimum.
If you wish to allow
edits or saving new environments to the library, enable write access
for selected users as well.
- For each user, add the shared library
path following the steps described in
Add an environment library.
NoteCustom environment
library paths are stored for each user of Showcase in their personal userPrefs.xml file in the My Documents\Autodesk Showcase 2011 folder.
If you switch users or machines, you will not see the same custom
environments unless they are defined in the userPrefs.xml file for
the local user.