Maya Texture paths!

MikeF

So i'm pretty tired of this problem, maybe someone knows whats going on...

Every time i load up my scene maya seems to try and load textures from the original directory that had been assigned to that shader, even though the scene has been saved over and over with the correctly updated path

Example:

Original diffuse texture path "data\ColumnDiffuse.tga"
New diffuse texture path "images\ColumnDiffuse.tga"

So every time i restart maya and reload the scene i have to go through each shader that's doing this and re-assign the textures. Just a pain in the ass when you'd think maya could remember where the last file used was located

Deleting the old shader and assigning a new one doesnt even work, somehow it's locating the old path!

chronic

if you save the file as a .ma you can open it up in a text editor and do a search and replace operation on those paths.

MikeF

thanks, i'l give it a shot

fade1

First of all i recommend this plugin for texture path isssues:
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/rendering/misc/c/filetexturemanager

Apart from that i'd check the project settings from your maya installation. Not sure if this can fix the problem frm there.

MoP

I found a weird bug with Maya 2008 and texture paths... probably unrelated, but if you have two textures with identical filenames but stored in different folders, Maya will only load one of them when you open the scene, and it will replace the file path of the 2nd one with the first. Even if the path was correct when you saved the scene originally, if you open it again and re-save, it breaks the texture path. No idea why.