.PRJ saves & map paths?
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To keep a project from searching unwanted default map paths while
rendering, I had deleted several directories using the info/configure/map paths
menu. Everything rendered quickly. Yet after saving the .prj, the map paths
were there again??? This is adding one and a half minutes per frame to the
renders.
Now I could obviously set up a new 3ds.set file, but this could become
tedious… and make it difficult to switch between projects. Any other
solutions?
The offending directories are on the CD-ROM. The reason the search is so
long is that I've got a dozen.ifl's assigned to about 70 materials, each .ifl
taking up at least two map slots. I get bogged down in the "Preparing maps…"
phase. The .ifl's are opacity and shininess maps. I suppose I could try out
supervary.sxp, or clone all of the objects and do material morphs to make them
appear/disappear.
Jonas, this is also a repeated wish for map paths to stay put when you
save a .prj file. As it is, new map-paths slide to the bottom when saved. If
they stayed at the top they'd be found immediately.
Paul S.
Paul,
As you have experienced, Map PAths that are set in the 3DS.SET file are loaded
prior to map paths in the .PRJ file. There is not much we can do about this,
other than removing the 3DS.SET file.
A number of people have defferent versions of the .SET files and a batch file
that switches between them when needed.
-Brian
P.S. Wishlist item for map paths to "stay put" is noted.
-Brian