tiled textures failed to load? (worked in beta)

[jasonhuang1115]

(edit: same textures and scene works in Maya 2011 x64 with VRay 2.004, but not in Maya 2012 x64)

Hi,

I have a scene with tiled textures generated from Mudbox and named as tileID_u1_v1, tileID_u1_v2, tileID_u2_v1, and tileID_u2_v2. (all tif files)

When I tried to load the these textures in Maya 2012 with tileID<UVTILE>.tif, I kept getting error messages like these below.

// Warning: Bitmap file "textures/Mudbox_to_PS/tileID_u1_v2.tif" failed to load: [LoadImageFile] Failed to open file: no such file

The render is completely black. I am pretty sure it worked before when I tried the same workflow during beta test of VRay 2.0. Has something changed for loading tiled UV textures?

system: I am on Windows 7 with Maya 2012 x64 and VRay 2.004 (the official build).

[vlado]

Does it work if you specify the absolute path to the texture, rather than a relative one?

Best regards,
Vlado

[jasonhuang1115]

Does it work if you specify the absolute path to the texture, rather than a relative one?

Best regards,
Vlado

Hi, Vlado,

I did try to render it with the file path specified as pathbalabala/textureName_u1_v1.tif (or any one of the tiled UV textures), and the scene renders just fine. If this is what you mean by using the absolute path to the texture. But, I have no clue how to use four absolute paths the same time to specify all my tiled UV textures.

[vlado]

I meant something slightly different: leave the <UVTILE> tag, but add the full path to the texture, i.e. not "textures/Mudbox_to_PS/tileID<UVTILEM>.tif", but "c:/path/to/my/textures/Mudbox_to_PS/tileID<UVTILE>.tif"

Best regards,
Vlado

[jasonhuang1115]

I meant something slightly different: leave the <UVTILE> tag, but add the full path to the texture, i.e. not "textures/Mudbox_to_PS/tileID<UVTILEM>.tif", but "c:/path/to/my/textures/Mudbox_to_PS/tileID<UVTILE>.tif"

Best regards,
Vlado

Yes, it just tried it with absolute path and it renders normally. The path will somehow being automatically changed back to a relative path itself after the render is done, and after that even the path is relative, the scene renders just fine. Also, if I saved scene with the path being automatically changed to the relative one, the scene will render just fine. Weird?

[vlado]

Yep, in any case this should be fixed for the latest nightly builds.

Best regards,
Vlado

[jasonhuang1115]

Yep, in any case this should be fixed for the latest nightly builds.

Best regards,
Vlado

Thanks, vlado. I'll send you and email regarding the nightlies.

-Jason