Octane and external data paths

[calus]

Well, it looks like this within OCS:

<attr name='filename' type='11'>..\..\..\..\LIBRARY\Textures\Various\Tapety\background_bumps_light_86951_2560x1080.jpg</attr>
<pin name='power'>

there is no drive letter specified, so i am not sure how am i change the path now, since thats pretty much the only difference between now and before.

What about that relative path? Where do i change that?

oh, this path means you are already using relative path (the option is in first tab in preference).

So you just have to place your OCS scene at the good place relatively to the LIBRARY folder,
according to this ..\..\..\..\LIBRARY ( ".." means go up of one directory relatively to the OCS)
you may have to put your OCS scenes in a folder next to the LIBRARY folder but with 3 subfolders like this: D:\folderA\folderB\folderC\folderdD\file.ocs
(typically this is the case when you have your scenes in a folder on the destopk on win7 the path is like this : C:\Users\myName\Desktop\octaneScene\file.ocs)

Does it make sens ?
maybe it's simpler to create a new OCS file where your scenes are with a link to texture in library, look at the path it creates now, and replace the "..\..\..\..\LIBRARY\" with that

[Timmaigh!]

Thank you.

Well moving the OCS into the Library folder somewhat helps - it still misses path to few textures and to materials i linked from the Live Database, as these apparently save to some different folder, which remained on the old disk in the old computer (but i can fix that fairly easily), but most of the textures seem to be there - found and linked.

[roeland]

..\..\..\..\LIBRARY\ means Octane was saving relative paths to assets in the OCS file. You can find and replace this part with the absolute path to your library folder. When Octane reads an OCS file, both relative and absolute paths will work.

If all your assets come from this library folder, and the library only moved to another location, Octane will usually ask for a new path only once, and then guess the location of the other assets. Is this working for you or is Octane asking for the location of every asset?

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Roeland

[Timmaigh!]

Thank you for response. TBH i did not bother with setting a single texture path, cause already the first one it was asking for was a texture with some weird name - i had no idea in which specific subfolder that one resides. So i cancelled all the missing files - assumed i would need to link all of them manually. If just one is enough and all the other will get linked automatically, that would be pleasant surprise. I will give it a try and report back.