File Archiving

[womble]

I'm currently working between 2 offices, and need to transfer files between the two to work on.

 

At the moment I'm using File/Archive, Max collects all the bitmaps and vray proxies and places them into a zip file. That's all fine and dandy but when I extract and open up the file the bitmaps are all still mapped to the old network drive. This means I have to go into the bitmap/photometric paths editor and manually edit each path to their new location.

 

Does anyone know of another method? Or perhaps a maxscript/plugin that assists a bit in this?

[Tyorl]

I'm often make directories like that:

 

MAIN

-Textures

-Proxy

-Ref

-dwg

-XRef

*.max are placed in MAIN directory.

 

So archive all move to next place, open it, simply ignore all the warnings go straight to File-Asset Tracking. There u have to choos all of your textures and set the path for them like so:

..\Textures

for proxy:

..\Proxy

and so on 2 minutes maximum to set up file

 

Maybe Autodesk Vault make the features even more easy, but I still haven't time to install and read the manual

[Dave Buchhofer]

use this script, it works wonderfully. then you can simply unzip your archived file and select the top level as a search path and it will re-link all your maps.

 

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/relink-bitmaps

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I haven't tested it, but I think if you use Alexanders suggestions in conjunction with relative mapping you shouldn't have any problems.

[Chad Warner]

The other, sloppier alternative is just to put all the maps the same directory as the Max file. It will automatically find them there. You would only want to do this though if you were working mainly from an office, and then working from home or something only every once in a while.