Hey there.. when moving our game from the dev machine to others... I get the following error message:
"cant load F:\watch_scr\data\cmtrl\ms_wall_64.mtrl Additional path obj\watch\homes"

Why is it looking for a hardcoded path? the material is located in the ..\data\cmtrl folder.. and the .gfx files it uses are under the data folder as well...

Suggestions?

Thanks

R u sure, that when u made material, image was in \data\cmtrl folder?

Open material with some text editor and search for path.

when you were using the material, it wasnt located in the "Data' path

you need to apply the material from the game path once again

Thanks for the input folks - on the right path ... I do see that the path is hardcoded in the .mtrl file...

Here is my conundrum: These materials are being created during a model conversion process...
I am loading world studio .3dw files, converting them to .mesh / .phys / .obj and creating all .gfx and .mtrl files used by the world studio file... so I need to find a way to dynamically create these materials while not having the paths hardcoded...

This is how am setting the gfx images used by the material:
if (dif) mat.mat.diffuse=Images(gfxName);

At this point.. a valid .gfx file exists in the f:\watch_Src\data\cgfx folder...

When gfxName is set to a full path ie: ( f:\watch_src\data\cgfx\someimage.gfx ) it creates the materials and works flawlessly.. excpect the path is hardcoded...

When I try using gfxName as "someimage.gfx", "data/someimage.gfx"... it cant load the .gfx file.

Possable related: In my InitPre section:

If I do not set the IOPath... and just do PakAdd("data/engine.pak"); everything works...
but if I do: IOPath("data"); PakAdd("engine.pak"); ( which is how it is setup in my actual game code )..

i get a message saying Unable to load PosOS
( both this converter and the main game .exe are located in the same folder... )

Not concerend about the IOPath thing if there is a way to solve the material path... but I mention that as I have a hunch it may be related...

Any suggestions?

Thanks a ton!

if you have the EXE here "f:\watch_src\watch.exe"
you have the data here "f:\watch_src\data"
you have the file here "f:\watch_src\data\cgfx\someimage.gfx"

then you need to set IOPath("data");
and load Images("cgfx/someimage.gfx");

and not the way you showed it: "someimage.gfx", "data/someimage.gfx"

Doh! ( at work atm so cant verify.. but i think i DID leave out the cgfx part...)

So that leaves: When I use IOPath("data")... it causes a message saying 'Unable to load PosOS'

What is PosOS... (Might be Pos06... kinda hard to tell...)

Any ideas on that?

oh, this may be a shader located in the "engine.pak"
make sure you load it properly, and you use the latest "engine.pak" version from the latest enginesdk

Thanks for the help... turns out that I had a second call to IOPath occuring right before using the file I/O dialog box... not sure why I did that... its always the hidden, stupid things that drive one crazy...