03: Projects

Hard Drive and Network Drive

Best Practices and Recommendations

‎PRIME supports mapped network drives for Prime Projects, however PRIME does NOT support search capabilities for projects over a network due to the Microsoft Search API.

It is highly recommended to use a local high speed drive for Prime and Prime Engine.
‎An NVME, high speed RAID, or SSD based hard drive provides the best performance capabilities for real time playback.

Using a network based drive has its pros and cons. Network drives are great for centralizing storage; however, depending on its network I/O bandwidth capability, it can greatly hinder Prime and Prime Engine’s real time performance.

Projects

Create a new project

To create a new project from the main page,

1. Select File from the top menu bar.
2. Select New Project.

Or

1. Click the Project icon on the top left-hand side of the
2. From the drop-down menu, select New to create a new PRIME project.

Open a pre-existing project 

To open a preexisting project:

1. From the main page, select File from the top menu bar.
2. Select Open Project.

Or

1. Click the Project icon on the top left hand side of the main page.
2. Select Open to open a preexisting project.
3. Then Select Project panel will be displayed.

‎From here, the user may navigate to the preexisting project and open it.

When saving scenes, if PRIME sees assets from folders outside the project PRIME, PRIME will prompt users to import the asset.

Remove a project

To remove a project:

1. From the Designer page, click the “Project” icon from the top menu bar.
2. Select Remove Project. This will NOT delete the project.

Delete a pre-existing project

1. Select Delete Project to Dele
2. The project an all the files associated with it will be deleted.

Editing a pre-existing project

1. From the Designer User Interface, click the menu File > Edit Current Project
2. This allows you to edit the Project Description, Project Parameters, Expressions, Conditions and C# code.