- October 9, 2024 at 16:49 #42815Keith LeeParticipantPosts: 5Threads: 9Joined: Nov 2022
Hi,
I do not do this very often, but I swear every time I need to do it, I cannot figure out the process… to me it’s not very intuitive. I need to search and replace a folder of scene files that point to a xref material library. I want to change the name of the library using the search and replace function. The problem is, I cannot figure out how to tell Project Manager to process the folder of files. When I turn on Search&Relink and Find&Replace, and fill out the needed fields, it does not work. And if I have an empty untitled scene, it wants me to save it first. What is wrong here?
Plugin version: 3.35.85
3ds Max version: 2024.2
Renderer: vray - October 9, 2024 at 16:50 #42817Oleksandr KramerModeratorPosts: 256Threads: 1128Joined: Aug 2009
Hi
As I understand, you want to rename a material library file? - October 9, 2024 at 17:39 #42819Keith LeeParticipantPosts: 5Threads: 9Joined: Nov 2022
Hi,
Not really. It’s really an xref object file that has xref materials within it. For example, the xref object file is named “materials.max”, and I want to rename all references to it in a folder containing 3ds max files to “materials-2024.max”.
- October 9, 2024 at 18:39 #42821Oleksandr KramerModeratorPosts: 256Threads: 1128Joined: Aug 2009
- Open a scene with xRef-files
- Select xRef file and Rename it using the menu-item “Rename Link&File”
- If the scene contains a few xRef files, you can also use Advanced Asset Rename tool
- Select xRef files
- Open Advanced Asset Rename tool using F2 or from menu Tools => Mass-Rename Tool
- Check Rename on Drive
- Print “materials.max” to Find field and “materials-2024.max” to Replace field
- Press Apply button
- Add files that contain xRef scenes
- Turn on the option “Find&Replace”
- Print “\materials.max” to Find field and “\materials-2024.max” to Replace field (I recommend to use slash before filename)
- Press START button
- Please note that this function doesn`t rename xRef files on drive, and you should do this manually
You can do this on from the next methods
1) Just rename xRef files2) Rename xRef files using Mass-Rename Tool
3) Rename using Batch Relink tool (shipped with Project Manager)
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- October 9, 2024 at 22:10 #42822Keith LeeParticipantPosts: 5Threads: 9Joined: Nov 2022
Thank you! Bookmarking this one.
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