Cross-platform texture paths

[cryolab]

1. i would go the simpelst way and put the textures in the default dirs ../images; ../sourceimages
2. maybe another way is to use UNC Paths but i didnt test if this work
3. do it with a script that search and repleace at startup of the scene the texturepath "prefix" X:/ to //X or visa versa

[shine77]

thanx for the repli ill test that

[ephemeros]

you could use the Maya.env file.
eg.: lets say you have a partition z: on windoze mounted in /mnt/win_d in linux, on it is a folder "work" containing the textures in work/textures. edit Maya.env file in a text editor. enter
MY_PATH = /mnt/win_d/work (for linux)
and
MY_PATH = z:\work (for windows)
and save the file.
the Maya.env file is in your home folder /maya eg: c:\Documents And Settings\Me\maya\6.5 - for windoze and /home/me/maya/6.5 - on linux
when you open maya, it considers MY_PATH env variable as the path entered in each OS
so, for a texture located in z:\work\textures\texture.tif (windows) or /mnt/win_d/work/textures/texture.tif write $MY_PATH/textures/texture.tif
when you save the scene, tha path is saved as you wrote it (if path is correct), then you may use the scene both on windows or linux without any changes.
try to avoid spaces in your folders` and files` names
you may declare more envs like:
MY_TEXTURES = $MY_PATH/textures
MY_SCENES = $MY_PATH/scenes (linux)
or
MY_TEXTURES = %MY_PATH%\textures
MY_SCENES = %MY_PATH%\scenes (windoze)
bye

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