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Working with Projects

A Maya project can consist of many files in various categories. To keep all this data structured, Maya uses a defined project structure. It is important to use a Project to make sure all relevant data can always be located. You may run into trouble, especially with file textures when you don't use this structure or when you forget to Set your project.

Starting a new project

• Go to File > Project > New...

• Enter a name for your project
  It's best to avoid spaces and special characters
• Choose a path where your project should be stored. Maya will create a directory (using the project name) in that location automatically.
• Click Use Defaults to use default locations for different Project files.
• Click Accept to confirm and close. Maya will create all the necessary locations.

Typical locations

Some typical locations for different types of files within your project

scenes

Maya scene files (.mb) are stored in the scenes/ directory.

sourceimages

all pictures used as file textures are stored here.

images

all rendered images data are store by Maya are saved here.

Continuing with an existing Project

• Go to File > Project > Set...
• Choose the location where your project is. This would be the directory with your project name that is created by Maya when you start a new project.