[Bf-committers] Relative Paths as default setting

[José Ignacio]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Mike Pan <mike.c.pan at gmail.com> wrote:
> It has always bothered me why the use relative paths option isn't enabled by
> default under the save & load preference panel.  I personally find relative
> path to be much more useful than working with absolute path.  What does
> everyone else think?
>
> I understand relative path can't be used until a blender file is saved.  So
> it is possible to perhaps store all the asset path as absolute, and when the
> blender file is saved, automatically invoke the convertion to to relative
> path?
>
> -mike

+1, absolute paths are annoying and of limited usefulness (i can't
really figure out a case where it would be useful from the top of my
head)