About Texture Paths in MergeDocument

Ross

Hi everyone!
After using MergeDocument to import a file, I need to manually specify the texture paths in the Project Asset Inspector. Am I importing the files incorrectly, or is there an additional setting I need to configure?

import c4d

def main() -> None:
    doc = c4d.documents.GetActiveDocument()
    target_flie = r"D:\01\test.c4d"
    c4d.documents.MergeDocument(doc, target_flie, c4d.SCENEFILTER_OBJECTS | 
                                           c4d.SCENEFILTER_MATERIALS | 
                                           c4d.SCENEFILTER_MERGESCENE)
if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

i_mazlov

Hi @Ross,

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About your First Question

The behavior you're describing is expected and there's no extra flag or other config that could quickly fix it for you. This effectively means that you need to iterate over texture paths and manually change them to the expected form (I assume it's either making them absolute paths or recalculating them relative to the target document location).

Fortunately, there's c4d.documents.GetAllAssetsNew function, which can make things easier for you by retreiving all the assets. It has been nicely explained by Ferdinand in the following thread: API for Project Asset Inspector?. Please also have a look at the almost exact same question that has already been asked: Changing Asset References to Absolute.

For the path calculation part, you might be willing to use the c4d.GenerateTexturePath function, which was designed specifically for this purpose.

Cheers,
Ilia

Ross

@i_mazlov I get it, thanks for your reply.