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Chapter 1: LightWave 3D Getting Started 15LightWave 3D BasicsLightWave Scene and Object Statistics• unlimited images• unlimited surfacesNOTE: Because of memory considerations,the available number of cameras, objectsand lights per scene is set at 100, 1000, and1000, respectively, in the LW10.CFG file.The values may beincreased — within the limits above, but not decreased below100; however, this will require more memory, so keep the newvalues as small as possible. Do not edit the CFG file whileLightWave is running.Measurement UnitsLightWave supports a large number of units of measurement.When entering numeric values into input fields, you may specifythe unit of measurement using the following abbreviations:Abbreviation Descriptionum Microns (one-millionth meter)mm Millimeters (one-thousandth meter)cm Centimeters (one-hundredth meter)m Meterskm Kilometers (one thousand meters)Mm Megameters (one million meters)mil Mils (one-thousandth inch)in or “ Inches (2.540 centimeters)ft or ‘ Feet (.3048 meters)kft Kilofeet (One-thousand feet)mi Miles (5,280 feet)nmi Nautical miles (1.151 miles or 1852 meters)f frames secondsFilenames and ExtensionsWe recommend that users avoid using spaces in hard drive,directory, and file names for scene, image, and object files:this can possibly cause problems later if you use LightWave’sdistributed rendering feature.LightWave uses several filename extensions for the differenttypes of files it uses. The following list gives you some examplesof these extensions:.env.lwo.lws.motEnvelope dataLightWave objectLightWave scene fileMotion data.p Plug-in.srfSurface attribute fileGenerally, LightWave will automatically add the appropriateextension to filenames when saving files, if one is not provided.However, this is not the case with most plug-ins.Additionally, there are numerous standard filename extensions(.bmp, .iff, .tga, .wav, etc.) that LightWave uses, but are notspecific to this application.HINT: Since the meter is the default unit of measurefor the SI or Metric unit systems, entering themeter equivalent is often easier than typing in theabbreviations. For example, enter .01 for centimeters, .001 formillimetes, 1000 for kilometers, and so on.