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If you continue rendering the scene, the bitmaps do not appear, or the lights
assigned missing photometric files will render using the default isotropic
distribution.
Cancel Cancels the render. This button appears only at render time.
Browse Displays a Configure External File Paths dialog, to let you add the
missing files' paths to the search sequence. This dialog has the same controls
as the Configure User Paths dialog >
Configure External Files Paths panel on
page 7526 .
Don't Display This Message at Render Time Appears only when loading a
scene with missing files. When on, the program does not display this dialog
if you render the scene without resolving the missing files.
Don't Display This Message Appears only at render time. When on, the
software does not display the dialog the next time external files cannot be
found.
File-Handling Utilities
Asset Browser Utility
Utilities panel > Utilities rollout > Asset Browser button
The Asset Browser provides access from your desktop to design content on
the World Wide Web. From within the Browser you can browse the Internet
for texture samples and product models. This includes bitmap textures (BMP,
JPG, GIF, TIF, and TGA), or geometry files (MAX, DWG, and so on). You can
drag these samples and models into your scene for immediate visualization
and presentation. You can use the Ctrl key to drag geometry into predefined
locations. You can also use the Asset Browser to browse thumbnail displays
of bitmap textures and geometry files on your hard disk or shared network
drives. Then you can either view them or drag them into your scene or into
valid map buttons or slots.
NOTE The thumbnail display of a geometry file is a bitmap representation of a
view of the geometry. Since the thumbnail display is not a vector-based
representation, you can't rotate it or perform zooms on it.
You can drag most graphic images that are embedded in a Web page into your
scene. The exception is images or regions of a Web page that are tagged as
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