[Bf-committers] Relative path bug in blender

[Campbell J Barton]

A stop gap solution is to have the blend in the same dir as the image, I 
dont like doing this but it makes it possible to work on win32 an linux 
for now.
- Cam

Campbell J Barton wrote:
> Hi All, there is an annoying bug/error in the way blender handles paths.
> 
> Basicly there needs to be a conversion of slashes when path names are 
> evaluated.
> 
> I use blender on windows and linux- of course the absolute paths are not 
> going to work
> 
> m:\work\mymodel.blend
> m:\work\textures\image.rgba
> /metavr/work/textures/image.rgba
> 
> but I use relative paths
> 
> //textures/image.rgba
> 
> So they should work, but they dont
> 
> Windows sees the linux fwd slash and reads it as a file name not a 
> relative path.
> 
> - Thanks
> 


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