Editing Configs

There are three or four files that are important:

*If you haven't yet run LightWave, you may not have a hub config file.

However, only the plug-ins and hub config files are likely to require editing.

Editing the hub config

Open the hub config file, if you have one, in notepad.

You'll find a line something like this:

ProcessName LWLayout "C:\Program Files\LightWave [8]\Programs\lightwav.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\Simon" C:\Documents and Settings\Simon

Change it to this:

ProcessName LWLayout D:\LightWave_80\Programs\lightwav.exe D:\LightWave_80\Configs D:\LightWave_80\Configs

Do the same for Modeler, changing this:

ProcessName LWModeler "C:\Program Files\LightWave [8]\Programs\modeler.exe" "C:\Documents and Settings\Simon" C:\Documents and Settings\Simon

to this:

ProcessName LWModeler D:\LightWave_80\Programs\modeler.exe D:\LightWave_80\Configs D:\LightWave_80\Configs

Note that, because we no longer have spaces in our paths, the quotes aren't needed.

Editing the plug-in config file

Unless you have some special reason not to, it's probably easiest to delete the file and re-add your plug-ins, but if you do want to hand-edit it, you'll simply need to do a search and replace to change the paths to you plugins.

Search for instances of C:\\Program Files\\LightWave [8]\\

and replace them with D:\\LightWave_80\\

Note the DOUBLE backslashes in the paths.

Finally, we'll set up the shortcut icons that tell LightWave where to find our config files.