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Description Lets you enter notes about the scene. Information that you add
to the Comments field on the
File Properties dialog on page 6920 will appear
in the Description field and vice-versa.
Summary Info Lists materials in the scene. The information is sorted by
category and includes object name, assigned material name, type of material,
object vertex and face counts, and so on. Materials are listed at the bottom of
the list. Bitmaps used by the materials are listed with the materials.
Environmental and atmospheric maps are listed separately. The Other Maps
category lists all other maps used in the scene, such as Displace maps, and
any maps assigned by third-party plug-ins.
Video Post maps are not included.
The buttons at the bottom of the Summary Info dialog have the following
functions:
Save to File Saves the contents of the dialog and descriptive text to a .txt
(text) file.
Plug-In Info Displays a subdialog with information about the
plug-ins on
page 7896 used in the scene. By default, the subdialog shows the name and a
brief description of each plug-in.
Show Details Shows information about all of the classes supported by each
plug-in.
Show Used Only Restricts the view to only those plug-ins that have been
used in the scene.
File Properties
File menu > File Properties
File Properties allows you to enter information about a scene that can later be
read by Windows NT 4.0 or later and Windows 98 or later, using a program
such as Windows Explorer to view the properties of the scene file.
This information can also be used to locate scene files with the
File Finder
utility
on page 6939 .
The Properties dialog comprises three tabs:
■ The Summary panel displays predefined fields that are commonly used.
■ The Contents panel displays scene information available after the scene
had been saved.
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