Files Panel
Where all of your content medias are
Smode handles data -- pictures, videos, 3d objects and Smode documents -- through the concept of media directories. A media directory is a shortcut to local hard-drive location. Every link to a data in Smode is stored as a relative path to one of those media directories.Thanks to this system of relative paths, Smode documents can be copied or moved from one computer to another one even if the hard-drive paths differ.
By default, Smode has the three following media directories:
- Standard Pack: The Standard Pack is used for internal Smode usage like presets, previews and helper meshes. This media directory should never be removed.
- Features : This media directory contains simple compositions illustrating Smode features.
- Examples : This media directory contains more advanced examples of what's possible to do with Smode.
At any time, Smode maintains a cache of previews and meta-datas of everything contained by the media directories. This enables to have previews and cached metadata for every file.
Adding a media directory
In order to create your own compos, you will probably want to create your own media directory, like
C:\Medias
for example.
This can be performed by drag and dropping a windows folder inside of the file tree:
Adding a Media directory can also be done by right clicking on the background of the file editor and by selecting command Add Media Directory:
Last, it's possible to manage the list of media directories via the Medias directories preference panel.
Adding a Media directory can also be done by right clicking on the background of the file editor and by selecting command Add Media Directory:
Last, it's possible to manage the list of media directories via the Medias directories preference panel.
It is highly recommended to not add medias directories containing too many images (like long image sequences) as Smode may take ages to create the pre-visualisation
Adding content to media directories
If you want to add some content like pictures or videos to your media directory you need to do it on windows.
You can also right click on the title of your media directory, click on “reveal in explorer” and add your new picture in the folder.
Converting video in HAP from Smode
Note that many different kind of video formats and codecs (.mp4, .avi,
etc.
) cannot be read directly by Smode
and need to be converted into HAP first.
In order to see thoses video files, you must activate the "experimental support of Audio Video Formats" inside the preferences:
Press "Apply Changes" and relaunch Smode.
Now, you can see .mp3, .mp4, .avi and other files and simply have to do a right click over them to transcode (re-encode) them into hap / hap alpha / wav.
In order to see thoses video files, you must activate the "experimental support of Audio Video Formats" inside the preferences:
Press "Apply Changes" and relaunch Smode.
Now, you can see .mp3, .mp4, .avi and other files and simply have to do a right click over them to transcode (re-encode) them into hap / hap alpha / wav.
