ernstAlert
September 12, 2016, 7:29pm
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I am having an issue with my paths in Maya. Everything was working fine until I had to move the location of the ART tools folder. Maya properly asked for the new location of the tools, EXCEPT now whenever I try to add a character for animation it says it cannot locate the export file reference, and makes me navigate to it. I select “make path changes permanent” but that appears to do nothing. I get the same error when loading my old animation files.
Is there a way to make it look in the new location permanently? Thanks, this is driving me crazy.
EDIT: I think I solved this, the issue is that the rig file and the new animation file needed to be writeable for this to correct itself. Once I did that, the redirects worked. I still have to fix the redirect every time I open an old animation that points at the old rig location, but this seems to be a limitation of Maya, not the tools.
yep, this is a limitation of Maya unfortunately. Huge pain in the butt. At work, we make sure everyone has a consistent setup to get around animators and riggers constantly having to repath the references.