Importing OBJ and losing path

Lorraine

Edit: I've submitted a help ticket

 

Hi

I collected a mass of objects from various sites in various formats and, over a two day period recently, imported and saved them to the external hard drive using my laptop. When I switched to my desktop it was unable to find the textures of any of the props I'd saved, though the path was identical to the one used to save them. The laptop can open them with no problem plus can find the textures of objects I saved using the desktop. Is there a setting I've missed when I reinstalled W7 and DS4.12 some time back? Both machines are Windows 7 64bit, both were running DS4.12, I have to say, I'm baffled.

Cheers

Lorraine

SpottedKitty

Does the external drive have the same drive letter in both machines? I know, it should, but this is Windows we're talking about...

Lorraine

@SpottedKitty

Hi Spotted Kitty and thanks for the response!

It sure does have the same drive letter, 'z' so nothing else steals it. I've found since writing this post that the laptop is the problem, I checked the duf files it created and it's not writing the complete path, it misses out the drive letter and the folders the obj etc folder is nested in. The desktop writes the entire path so the laptop can find them, the laptop doesn't so the desktop can't find them. I can't even figure out how the laptop knows where they are with the path incomplete. Baffled and bewildered am I. 

FirstBastion

Put your obj import folder inside your Daz "My Library" or "Content" folder. The path is designed to work in there.

jestmart

Relative and Absolute addressing, Google it.

SpottedKitty

lorraineopua said:

It sure does have the same drive letter, 'z' so nothing else steals it. I've found since writing this post that the laptop is the problem, I checked the duf files it created and it's not writing the complete path, it misses out the drive letter and the folders the obj etc folder is nested in. The desktop writes the entire path so the laptop can find them, the laptop doesn't so the desktop can't find them. I can't even figure out how the laptop knows where they are with the path incomplete. Baffled and bewildered am I. 

That's the problem, but it isn't with the laptop. The "incomplete" folder path is supposed to happen — the DAZ|Studio program keeps track of where all your content folder locations are, so a folder path in a saved file (whether a scene, materials setting, etc.) only needs to store the location of the file within the content folder. Any content folder. All the content folder. As far as D|S is concerned, every one of your content folders is One Big Folder™ which it searches through when you load a file.

Just to make sure we're both on the same page, check the Content Directory Manager settings on both machines, and compare them with the folder path where you're putting the .obj files. If you save a file (scene, materials, etc.) to a location outside any of your CDM setting locations, D|S immediately doesn't know how to find it. Are you saving using the File>Save menu at the top, or the "+" Save button at the bottom of the Content Library pane? The second method means your files are always saved properly and D|S always knows where to find them.

Lorraine

@SpottedKitty

 

Thank you! I had mapped the objects folder on the laptop but not on the desktop upon a windows reinstall. You're a hairsaver, no more pulling :) I have been saving objects since 2005 and this is the first time I've hit a glitch. Computers are wonderful if you do what THEY want ;)

 

Lorraine

Lorraine

@FirstBastion

I started doing this when I discovered I had a problem, that does the trick for any saves going forward.