To directly answer the question they indicate either you are pointing to a single mdl file or a folder containing anything
from manual
http://www.conitec.net/beta/wed_presets.htmPaths
Add Path Adds a new folder to the folder path. Subseqently, sound and entity files from that folder are available in the Add Object menu. The new folder is stored in a PATH statement in the WDL project file. This way the engine also gets access to the folder when running the script. A .c script must be set up in Map Properties for adding a folder.
http://www.conitec.net/beta/apath.htmPATH "dirname";
All files belonging to the application - bitmaps, sounds, entities etc. - will be first searched for in the work folder and then in the folder given here.
Remarks:
Backslashes ("\") have to be given in C notation as double backslashes (like "C:\\games").
Paths will be searched in the given sequence. Paths are relative to the current work folder. In order to be able to copy your project to different locations, use relative paths for all files belonging to your project, and absolute paths for all files that are on an absolute location on your hard disk (like template scripts).
A7 If the path begins with "%EXE_DIR%", it's a subfolder of the program folder (like "%EXE_DIR%\\template_6\\models"). Apart from that, do not use special characters or spaces in your folder names.
Theoretically you can specify up to 32 PATH names, but it's better to stay well below that limit. Each folder is searched in sequence until a given file is found, so having lots of paths can remarkably increase the startup time.
LC Included scripts are not searched in the paths. They should be located in the work folder. Alternatively, their paths can be explicitely given in the #include statements or in PRAGMA_PATH statements.
LC At runtime paths can be added through add_folder().
Example (WDL):
PATH "files\\models"; // Searching for models also in the work subfolder "files\models"
See also:
BIND, LEVEL, PRAGMA_PATH, add_folder
USING the path command requires you to write a wdl script that holds the paths.
