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ResourceManagement

A project consist typically of different kind of resources: Textures, models, sounds and so on. Per default, the project is configured that way, to look into different pathes, depending on the resourcetype:

/textures: The textures directory contains all textures used for the models / particles etc. (.tga, .png, .jpg)
/sounds: contains .wav files (.wav)
/particles: Particlescripts (.prt)
/shaders: Shader scripts for sophisticated effects (.shd)
/materials: Material scripts associated textures and shaders (.mat)
/models: The model path contains for displaying. (.f3d .mm)
/animations: Contains animation files that can be used for models (.ma)

You don't need to create these pathes, as long as you don't have any resources to put into.

When a resource is loaded, Luxinia will try to find the specified file in different locations:

exact filestring passed
file in same path as "parent resource" (e.g model loading texture)
default search directory of project
default search directory in "/base"

Some more infos:

loaded once into reschunk: Resources are loaded once and the needed memory is taken from the active reschunk. You cannot remove a single resource from memory again, but only destroy the used reschunk completely. By default luxinia uses one reschunk for everything at startup, as this is sufficient for general useage.
no gc:Garbage collection is not active for resources, once loaded they will remain in memory.
.load / .create: .load operations typically mean data that is stored in files, whilst .create is used to generate a new resource completely from Lua, with all its internal specifics from ground up. Once created, the .load mechanism often can be used as well for such user-create textures, they just use a specific name tag (e.g. ("USER_TEX(mytexname)").