Send textures - DR

[caligra]

Working in a cross platform envrionment OSX & Windows gives complications with pathnames, so when rendering using DR it would be nice to have an option to send textures to the machines - an example is:

windows machine expect:

\\servername\path\texture.tga

OSX sends /Volumes/path/texture.tga to PC and PC cannot find the texture. the same happens if we send from PC to macs now its just the mac that gets confused. So and option to send the textures to the machines would be really nice.

If you know a way to get around this, I would appreciate this a lot.

Kind regards

Carsten Lind
Senior 3D Artist, Maya software manager & Instructor
LEGO System A/S

[vladimir.nedev]

Hi,

Currently you can use the VRAY_ASSETS_PATH environment variable to get around this problem. It should be set to a ';' separated list of paths where textures/vrmesh files/ies files are located. If V-Ray cannot find the texture in the path it got from Maya, it will try searching these locations for the file name only. The search is not recursive, meaning subdirectories of the directories in VRAY_ASSETS_PATH will not be searched.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[caligra]

Thanks,

I cannot really see how that could be done in our setup with limited access to administrative rights and setting that variable , would require a separate set of environment variables for every project we do, which is not a viable solution (if I understand it correctly)

[timdog]

Lets say we have a PC and want to distribute rendering to macintosh slaves.
Is it enough to specify the VRAY_ASSETS_PATH for a macintosh compatible file path at the PC only?

[vladimir.nedev]

No, you need to do this on each slave.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev