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Bitmap/Photometric Path Editor Utility

Utilities panel > Utilities rollout > More button > Utilities dialog >

Bitmap/Photometric Path Editor

The Bitmap/Photometric Path Editor lets you change or remove the paths of

bitmaps on page 7730 and photometric distribution files (IES) used in the scene.

It also lets you see which objects use a resource in question.

By default, 3ds Max stores a path with the name of the files it references. This

can be a problem when you share scenes among different users. Another user

might have the same scene and resources, in the same directory structure, but

on a different disk drive; this will cause the scene to "lose" the resources.

Removing paths from resource references eliminates this problem. When paths

are not saved with the resource file, they are searched for in these directories:

1 The directory of the current scene.

2 The paths listed in the

External Files panel on page 7526 , starting at the

top of the list.

Removing paths from bitmap and photometric references can be useful for

network rendering on page 6231 as well.