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surripere

12-28-2003, 09:50 PM

Hello all,

I am trying to bake the lighting and shading of objects for the first time. I seem to be running into problems when maya tries unsuccessfully to write texture file names that include the "|" character, as in nurbsCube1|topnurbsCube1.tif.

I'm running Windows and know that "|" is not a valid filename character, so I think that's the problem. But I have no control over the filename maya uses, except for adding a prefix, which does not help.

I've thought of attaching the individual nurbs components (such as nurbsCube1|bottomnurbsCube1, nurbsCube1|topnurbsCube1, nurbsCube1|leftnubsCube1, etc) into one continuous piece, but I'm not sure how to do this exactly.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I'm still rather new to 3D despite months of independent study.

Thanks a lot,
surripere

Jackdeth

12-29-2003, 03:01 AM

Maya adds that bar symbol when you have 2 nodes with the same name

Dig through your outliner...its there somewhere

surripere

12-29-2003, 06:43 AM

You rock! Thank you very, very much. I expected the solution to be a lot more difficult.

surripere

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