Im testing a linux box in our farm and we are having a bitch of a time getting it to read any files that have references.....what is the proper envirnment for reading them..... do they have to be maya asci format...because right now they are all binarys??
mrPooH
ASCII is best because you can edit the references to be localized. Maya stores absolute paths for references so if it can't link to it with that path I'm not sure if it looks in the common directories like it would for textures.
Also I've noticed that Maya will also store previous paths for references if you swapped them out etc. I usually delete those extra paths.
Also if youa re reading lots of them over ethernet and they are large it will slow thing sdown especially if there is alot of traffic on the network.
Also if you are trading files between operating systems you will need to localized the paths for unix versus window if that happens to be the case.
hope that helps