8

502 Chapter 20: Managing Scenes and Projects
Inter face
Summary panel
Summaryprovidesfieldsforenteringinformation
relatedtothesavedscene.Manycommonlyused
fieldsareavailablefromtheSummarytab.Ifthere
is a field you would like that is not represented in
theSummarytabyoucanusetheCustomtabto
define new fields for information.
Title—Enterthetitleofyoursceneoranimation
here.
Subject—Enterthesubjectofyoursceneor
animation here.
Author—Enter the author of your scene or
animation here.
Manager—Enterthemanagerofyoursceneor
animation here.
Co mpany—Enter the name of your company here.
Cat eg ory—Enter the category of your scene or
animation here.
Keywords—Enter keywords that identify your
scene here.
Co mments—Enter personal comments here.
Information that you add to the Description field
on the
Summar y Info dialog (page 3–500) will
appear in the Comments field and vice-versa.
Contents panel
When a scene is saved, a summary list of
everything contained in the scene is generated and
displayed in the Contents tab. If a scene has not
beensaved,theContentstabremainsempty.
Note: There is currently a bug in Windows NT
4.0 that c auses the information in the Contents
tab to look garbled when you view a MAX
file in Windows Explorer. The problem has
been corrected in Windows 98. Although the
information looks garbled, it is internally correct
and the File Finder utility can still read it.
Custom panel
TheCustompanelletsyoucreatecustomfields.
Custom is useful when there is more information
that needs to be entered into the propert ies of
a scene but there is no field or no room in the
Summary panel.
Name—Enter the name of a custom field. You can
manually enter anything you want into the N ame
field. A drop-down list provides commonly used
field types.
Ty pe—Specifies the type of information to b e
enteredintotheValuefield:choosefromText,
Date, Number, and Yes or No. This d ictates the
type of information to be entered into the Value
field.
Value—Enter the data here.
Add—Adds the Custom propert ies entered into the
Name, Type, and Value fields to the Properties list.