Auto Updating Texture files in maya?

PolyPutty

I am getting pretty sick of having to reload my textures evertime I want to see a texture update in maya. I was watching Ben mathis's texture painting tutorial and saw that he made it so the texture would auto update in max. is there a way to achieve a similar effect in maya?

rooster

NEX has this feature, but you have to pay for it. well worth it though imo for that and its other tools

Rob Galanakis

I just add the update PSD textures to my shelf. As for other file textures... don't know as I only really use psd while texturing though saving to a separate file would help with memory issues. I'm sure you can make a script for it or add something to your shelf. Or maybe one exists already?

Penzer

If you right click on a model, you can click on "material attributes" and it will bring you straight to your material without needing to go into hypershade/multilister. If you don't select anything else, you can keep your attribute window open while moving your camera around to see your texture. So long as you're only working on texturing, you can look around all you want and still have the reload button on screen in your attribute window.

Or make a shelf button.

Or get nex.

fade1

i use this free mel script for my shelf from highend3d...
http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/texturing/Keegan-reloadTexture-3379.html
there are even a few others if you think you need more options.
in this way 3d studio max rocks.

Default

since i usually have the UV editor open while i'm texturing, i just use the reload textures button in there.