Setting Up a Project?

[ethan.penn6]

Hello!

So I recently ran into an issue in which all of the textures from my Maya project were missing when I moved the Maya Binary file over to another computer for rendering. I looked around and found that I should've been storing the textures and other items in the proper locations from the very start of beginning my Maya project. The damage has already been done (4 or 5 scenes each with hundreds of objects that I'll have to retexture), but I was mainly wondering, what steps can I take to avoid these issues in the first place? I know how to use the "Set Project" function (I think) and I definitely know how to create a new Maya project through the Project Window. Where should I be storing my textures however? My UV maps that I exported from ZBrush? Relevant OBJ files? There are so many folders in each Maya project that I don't even know where to begin. Thanks in advance!

[mspeer]

Hi!

1. You can correct texture paths easily with the File Path Editor.

2. It doesn't matter where you store your image textures or other files as long as you do it consistent in the relevant project-folders.

The default for source images is "sourceimages".

Please go through all default folder names and you also find OBJexport, but you can define and use folders based on your own needs.

3. Again, if you have different folder names when moving a project, just use the File Path Editor to correct image paths, it's easy and fast.

[ethan.penn6]

Maybe I'm using the file path editor incorrectly, but every time I go in and select the new folder, it doesn't do anything. It just sits there with the red error messages staring me in the face. 😕

[mspeer]

Hi!

"every time I go in and select the new folder, it doesn't do anything."

Please be more precisely, where do you click or what menu/command do you use?

"It just sits there with the red error messages"

What error message, where is it shown?

for me it's:

1. Open File Path Editor

2. Select unresolved files

3. Hit "Repath Files"

4. Enter new file path and enable "Search Subdirectories For Files" if needed

5a) Hit Preview ... Continue, or just

5b) Hit Repath

Done.