Moving files with materials and textures intact? [SOLVED] Tweet

[itsallgoode9]

Can somebody help me with the best way to move scenes from one computer to another and keep all referenced textures and materials with it?

[whersmy]

export as orbx from standalone, and then copy the orbx to a new folder, and unpack there I think

[itsallgoode9]

thanks for the suggestion, but i'm specifically speaking about doing it to and from maya. sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

[k.a.schubert]

thanks for the suggestion, but i'm specifically speaking about doing it to and from maya. sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

Hi itsallgoode9,

that should be a question for moving maya scenes in general from one PC to another.
Since I don't have so much experience with Maya, I would advise to ask in the Maya forums about that!

Best, Kai

[icelaglace]

Move the project folder, that should be enough. As long as you kept everything tidy in the project.

[calus]

Can somebody help me with the best way to move scenes from one computer to another and keep all referenced textures and materials with it?

The way to do this usually in Maya is to use "Archive scene" in the File menu. This exports all the dependencies with your scene in a zip file preserving folder hierarchy.
(Assuming you have dependencies outside your project and all over your computer )

But it doesn't work for Octane imageTexture nodes...

As a quick fix you can use this script before using the "Archive scene" fonction :

string $nodes[] = `ls -typ octaneImageTexture`;
for ($node in $nodes) {
$node = $node+".File";
string $path = `getAttr $node`;
string $file = `createNode file -n "temp"`;
$file = $file+".fileTextureName";
setAttr $file -type "string" $path;
};

The script create for each Octane imageTexture node a maya texture file node with the same file path, so maya can see the dependencies and create a correct archive.

[itsallgoode9]

Can somebody help me with the best way to move scenes from one computer to another and keep all referenced textures and materials with it?

The way to do this usually in Maya is to use "Archive scene" in the File menu. This exports all the dependencies with your scene in a zip file preserving folder hierarchy.
(Assuming you have dependencies outside your project and all over your computer )

But it doesn't work for Octane imageTexture nodes...

As a quick fix you can use this script before using the "Archive scene" fonction :

string $nodes[] = `ls -typ octaneImageTexture`;
for ($node in $nodes) {
$node = $node+".File";
string $path = `getAttr $node`;
string $file = `createNode file -n "temp"`;
$file = $file+".fileTextureName";
setAttr $file -type "string" $path;
};

The script create for each Octane imageTexture node a maya texture file node with the same file path, so maya can see the dependencies and create a correct archive.

Thanks, I'll give that a try. That was the problem I was running in to. I tried both archiving and export as FBX but it wasn't liking the octane nodes but hopefully this will work

[itsallgoode9]

Man, that actually works! Thanks so much for making that script. You made my life a hell of a lot easier. Hopefully they'll look at building some sort of scene packager that works with Octane as they update the plugin

[calus]

Man, that actually works! Thanks so much for making that script. You made my life a hell of a lot easier.

[k.a.schubert]

Thanks from me as well calus!

Can't look at this right now, but added a ticket to my bugtracker.