[Delineator]

I have a bit of a situation I need some help with. Basically, right now I am in the process of moving our massive MXM library from a single folder into several sub-folders for organizational purposes.

The problem I am having is that all the materials have textures associated with them, and I can't seem to get the newly relocated materials to update the texture link.

For example, right now my file structure is:
MXM Materials:
.../.../.../A12 Maxwell/

MXM textures:
.../.../.../A12 Maxwell/textures


However, I want to organize it to look like:
MXM Materials:
.../.../.../02 Maxwell Materials/06 Woods, Plastics, Composites/

MXM textures:
.../.../.../02 Maxwell Materials/06 Woods, Plastics, Composites/textures

Each different material type would have a separate folder per CSI MasterFormat standards.

Within the material editor, I have tried the Pack and Go MXM option, but it does not update the texture to the new location (even though the MXM and texture file copy over). I have tried the "fix texture paths" option, but to be honest, I'm not even sure what that button does because it doesn't seem to change anything.

Obviously I want to avoid repathing every single material separately.


edit: also, is there a way to batch pack and go? If not, I would have to rinse and repeat a couple hundred times

[Bubbaloo]

Technically, you shouldn't have to repath anything. Maxwell will automatically look first in the pathed location, then if the texture is not there, it will look in the "textures" subfolder where the MXM is located.

[Delineator]

Yes, that seems to be working, but would I still have to pack and go each material individually to get the textures in the proper location?

[Bubbaloo]

Hmmm that's the only way I would know how to do it, besides some copy and pasting in Explorer... Could it be handled with scripting?

[Delineator]

Possibly. To be honest, I'm already half way done, so I might as well just finish it up the slow way with Pack and Go (only 150 to go!)

Copy and paste in explorer would force me to manually identify which textures belong to which MXMs, so they can go in the proper sub-folder, which is unimaginably complicated.

One thought I had (which could turn out either great or super messy) is to use symbolic links on all the texture sub-folders (.../Maxwell Materials/09 Finishes/textures) and link back to a master "textures" folder that would house everything for all material types (.../Maxwell Materials/textures)