Change Bitmap Path= Max crashes

[off the cuffe]

I Have a really big scene with loads of bitmaps, vray proxies etc thought I would try to gather all assets from our server and put these into a seperate single folder, and then resize some of the textures for animation.When I copied these over using the " change photometric paths" and/or manually copied them, max now seems to crash all the time.

I think I can recall reading something about this issue awhile back, but can't seem to find anything on the subject.

Any Thoughts?

[AubreyM]

Off the top of my head I would say have a look in the asset browser and see if the paths are in fact pointing to the right place.

[off the cuffe]

sure are, managed all asets and made sure none of the files were missing.

[Corey Beaulieu]

The issue I've had in the past is that Max crashes while using the photmetric/bitmap path editor utility, but not after having used it. This usually means that it will never work and something else needs to happen. Assett tracker is great, but even still a lot of guys here at the studio use this:

 

http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/zoa-path-editor

 

It sort of combines the two.

[Scott Schroeder]

Asset tracker is the best way rather than map paths. Add the new path in, keep the old one to prevent max from freaking out, and change everything in the asset tracker and/or use the script that Corey pointed out.

 

Max is very picky about paths and if it can't find them, it soils itself and crashes.