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1. Maya 2009: Auto-update textures

   

   Topic by killingpeople · Jun 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   Maya 2009 does not have the option to auto-refresh textures. One must manually refresh. NEX enables this feature. Is there a means of getting this feature without the need to buy and install NEX for those that only want this feature? I found this script with a search. What sucks is that the user has to manually enable the…

2. Re: Maya 2009: Auto-update textures

   

   Reply by MoP · Jun 2010 · Home› Technical Talk

   You can put a shelf button for doing something like: { string $files[] = `ls -type "file"`; for ( $file in $files ) { string $fileName = `getAttr ( $file + ".fileTextureName" )`; setAttr -type "string" ( $file + ".fileTextureName" ) $fileName; }} Untested, but I think it should work. Then you just click that and it will…

3. Re: Maya 2009: Auto-update textures

   

   Reply by CheeseOnToast · Jan 2012 · Home› Technical Talk

   I have an old script that works well for this. With an object selected it will refresh all materials assigned to that object. With nothing selected it'll refresh all materials. I have it assigned to a hotkey. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1889770/alexxUpdateFileTextures.mel