VERY SIMPLE SCRIPT! HELP!!!

By sixstorm2 · 2008-10-13

Description

Hi everyone, I absolutely need a script that loops all the texture maps in the scene and make the bitmap file path relative. This is a simple script and I'm a total noob in MAXScript. Cuz I don't know anything about MAXscript and since the language is awfully documented, I've tried for several hours but I can't learn the language. I always get some kind of totally undescriptive errors.

In a normal programming language, that would be something like:

For Each map In SceneMaps

s1 = map.filename

's1 would be for example: "C:\Users\zxcvdxa\project1\Textures\Texture1.jpg"

'Replace the string and make it relative

s1 = s1.Replace("C:\Users\zxcvdxa\Textures", "..\Textures")

map.filename = s1

Next

Simple as that! I want to publish my model and make the path relatives. How do I translate this for MAX?.

Thanks for any help.

Comments (1)

Marco Brunetta · 2008-10-15

I wouldn't say the language is awfully documented...
However, it would start by looking at the pathconfig struct (if you need more info just look in the help file):

"The PathConfig struct provides methods to access and manage Project paths, System paths, manipulate paths and convert between UNC, absolute and relative paths and so on."

In your case you probably want to use:

"pathConfig.convertPathToRelativeTo <path1>
<path2>
Converts the first path argument to a relative path with respect to the second path argument."

Besided that you might want to check out the sceneMaterials system global. Keep in mind it is a bit quirky