C4D Tut: Replace Missing Textures Quickly

Posted by Joren in: Cinema 4D
C4D Tut: Replace Missing Textures Quickly

In this tutorial I’ll show you the quickest way to re-link missing textures in Cinema 4D. It’s a quick tip, but will save you tons of time!

5 Oct 2011

11 Comments for "C4D Tut: Replace Missing Textures Quickly"

  1. Craig

    October 5th, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Awesome timing. Had this happen to me 25 min ago while sending a scene file to net render. Thanks

  2. tyf

    October 5th, 2011 at 3:30 pm

    A real big thank you for this Tip ! I just didn’t know that and did it as you tell in the beginning of this video ! ;)

  3. Chris

    October 5th, 2011 at 3:31 pm

    Thanks Joren, I ran into this as well. You can also access it through the window menu, it’s called “Selection/Structure info”. I don’t understand why they call it something different in the window menu than it’s called in the texture window but whatever.

  4. Adam

    October 5th, 2011 at 6:35 pm

    GREAT TIP! Thanks so much Joren. I have a question about using the content browser. I have gathered c4d scenes/models/materials from free resources and it doesn’t seem like theres a good way to put them into the content browser and be able to see them. For example I have one .C4D file that is just a mixture of 50 materials. I’d really like to be able to browse/organize those materials without having to open up that specific scene file. Do you know any solutions for this?

  5. Joren

    October 5th, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    Hey Adam, yeah there is a way to do that, it would probably be easier for me just to record a quick tip on that and post it up rather than write you, so keep your eyes open and I’ll try to get that up ok? Thanks for the comment man!

  6. Bryan Godoy

    October 5th, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    Great tip.

    Personally, sometimes I find it easier to copy the “tex” folder from the scene where the model came from and then coping and pasting that same “tex” folder into the new project.

    At times I might not need every single image in the folder but it’s always easier to delete from the Finder (Mac) then to relink each texture one by one. Hope this makes sense.

    Thanks for showing us another way, always helpful.

    -B

  7. Tommy

    October 5th, 2011 at 11:20 pm

    Great tip. Keep them coming.

    Thanks.

  8. Jan

    October 6th, 2011 at 11:34 am

    Hi Joren, thanks for the tip!

    There is also another quick way how to deal with the “missing” textures: Edit-Preferences-Files-Texture Paths. You’ll navigate to the folder with textures and after closing the window, all textures will be working again.

    Jan

  9. Joren

    October 6th, 2011 at 12:30 pm

    Good tip, thanks Jan!

  10. EJ Hassenfratz

    October 6th, 2011 at 3:42 pm

    Awesome tips, wish I knew about this sooner, probably would have saved loads of time and headaches!

  11. Ben

    October 7th, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Really great tip, man! Such a time saver!

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