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KMcNamara

11-21-2012, 10:51 PM

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for a way to list/find all external files that a given scene is using. For example, if a scene is using some textures, references, and geo caches, is there a way to list those file paths from within Python or MEL?

Thanks!

f3rry

11-22-2012, 12:07 AM

1. reference editor window and fileTextureManager.mel help you show paths used in the scenes, the later even help you move or copy your file textures to a more appropriate paths
2. If your intention is to get all those files together, use archieve under file menu

KMcNamara

11-22-2012, 01:01 AM

Ah, Archive Scene is just what I was looking for. Not sure how I didn't see that. Thanks! :applause:

Nyro

11-22-2012, 07:45 PM

or...

file -q -list;

stallion151

11-22-2012, 09:21 PM

or...

file -q -list;

that is gold. I didn't even know that existed, I have scripts searching for all assets and it's too long, this tip is worth money! thanks

f3rry

11-22-2012, 10:13 PM

or...

file -q -list;

Gold!!! Thank you.

Nyro

11-23-2012, 12:01 AM

You're welcome :beer:

In fact, there's a command, sceneEditor, that from what I can tell is supposed to do just that with a GUI.

Thing is, the command seems broken, as I can't get it to work on Maya 2012 (command is recognized but flags are broken)