PC and Mac pipeline problems

[scott-douwes]

I've tried searching for the solution but I don't what to search for exactly and am not coming up with anything.

Here is the problem.
I'm working at a studio that uses Maya on both Macs and PCs. All of the project files are kept on a server running windows. We are finding that when we create some projects on a Mac the location strings to assets are mac specific. For example the location for a texture file could be Volumes/server/projects/maya/sourceimages. When we open the maya project on a PC we have to relink everything. So my question is, is there a way to modify the Maya.env file (or something like that) and have it change the beginning of the location path to something PC friendly? Something like swap "Volumes/server" to "p:\newserver\".

[joojaa]

yeah its called

dirmap 

Altough if you have your project root defined correctly then you domnt need to link the directories under the project because maya knows how to deal with those. (but thats assuming yu actually set the project up  correctly)

Since your structure looks like it MIGHT be a project instead set up your project right, because it helps you in archival later. As it doesn't depend on any structure other than everything under the project root. Which is a boon 3 years form now.

[scott-douwes]

Thanks for the reply. 

I'm a little confused about something. in your reply you said,
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Altough if you have your project root defined correctly then you domnt need to link the directories under the project because maya knows how to deal with those. (but thats assuming yu actually set the project up  correctly) 
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What is the proper way to define the project root? On a Mac we just use "File - Project - Set". Is there another way that we don't know of?

[joojaa]

What is the proper way to define the project root? On a Mac we just use "File - Project - Set". Is there another way that we don't know of?

Well the project has to define some folder lookup structures, and the base folder path needs to be defined as well. And every time you open a scene you must ensure that you've set the project right for THAT scene (maya will just keep the project folder when if you open a different project scene, the guess what project you were in if you failed to tell correct structure then maya might just guess wrong)

Read mayas manual they have a chapter on this. It will actually save you time to understand how maya works you know. (likewise ha you read the entires in the manual youd also had known about dirmap)