Trying to move a project from Maya LT to Maya (finally upgraded). Due to the polygon export limit on LT, I broke up everything logically and exported out the FBXs with embedded media to preserve materials. Then i copied all the texture files into the new SourceImages folder. Everything is working ok, but every time I import an asset it duplicates the material if its already in the scene. Is there anyway to stop this from happening? I just want on M_ChairPlastic material, not one for every time an asset with that material gets imported. So any way to tell maya to merge these materials on import or after the fact would be extremely helpful. Thanks in advance.
It could be the way these files were exported, open a new scene, create a primitive with shader and export a ma file, then import back several times to see if is working on windows 10.
Yeah try that, I just tried with FBX but it didnt work...but works if it is a Maya scene, there must be a setting for the FBX but I can't seem to uncover.
Sorry Alex , let us know if you found a way, I gotta get back to work.
If using Embedded Media this will (can't) work, because when importing the file, each files media content will be extracted to a separate temp folder, so the file paths do not match and the shading networks can't be merged.
Can you clarify what you mean by "it will (can't) work"? Is there a better method for moving a scene from Maya LT to Maya that won't result in mass duplication of materials?
It seems to be working randomly. Some assets come in fine without duplicating materials, others come in a duplicate, some come in and use duplicates instead of originals. Its a mess. There has to be a way to migrate from Maya LT to Maya without all this headache.
