Relative Pathnames

[mediasaurus]

I'm trying to setup my projects to use relative pathnames so they can be rendered on the farm correctly. Here's what I've done.

1. Created "relative_path.h" containing gui.fileBrowser.keepRelativePaths = 1; in "/Applications/Shake/shake.app/Contents/Resources"

2. Clicked the icon in the shake file browser allowing relative pathnames. (no longer had red slash through the ../)

3. Manually typed in relative pathnames and everything seems to render fine on the farm

My question is, is there a way to setup Shake so it always uses relative pathnames in FileIn & FileOuts so I don't have to manually type it each time? After the above config, when using the Shake browser, files are still brought in with absolute pathnames.

[user_deleted]

Try adding this to another ".h" in your nreal folder or the "relative_path.h" file:

script.uncFileNames = 0;

This will not add the computer name to your path names.

For the commercial release, I am not sure if that is possible, I do know, however that it can be done.

I did have a work around script (maybe its on this site somwhere, or someone else has it) that looks for all paths in the script and makes sure they are all relative to the shake script being run.

[mediasaurus]

I tried adding that line to .h file without success. Seems weird to me that this isn't easier. I suppose I could write a shell script that goes into the shake script and updates accordingly. Hopefully, the next edition of Shake (or whatever it's gonna be called) handles this better.