[Closed] File merging and network paths?

dunkelzahn

Sep 22, 2008 4:31 pm

Hello everybody,

again I have a question which is killing me as a MaxScript Newbie, though it should be quite simple to fix.

I´d like to merge objects from a Max file into another, already opened Max File.

Basically this should do the trick, right?

mergemaxfile "C:\myproject\mergefile.max" #("Box01")

However this doesn´t seem to work for a network path:

mergemaxfile "\\my_server\myproject\mergefile.max" #("Box01")

This causes me some headache. While I´d be able to work around the problem by creating a network shortcut and using this

mergemaxfile "Z:\myproject\mergefile.max" #("Box01")

I doubt this to be the clean way, as a not proper set network path would mean the script is useless.

Any ideas on this one? I tried using the @sign trick (Thanks to Kameleon for this one ;)) but that didn´t work as well.

mergemaxfile @"\\my_server\myproject\mergefile.max" #("Box01")

Any ideas or nudges in the right direction are much appreciated

Chris

4 Replies

Kameleon

Sep 22, 2008 4:31 pm

Hi again, I just tried this option mergemaxfile @”\my_server\myproject\mergefile.max” #(“Box01”) and it worked, what’s the output on your listener? true or false? Maybe the problem is elsewhere. Cheers!

RustyKnight

Sep 22, 2008 4:31 pm

The problem, as I see, is most likely related to the way maxscript is treating your backslashes. These are also treated as “escape” characters…

So
is a newline, is a tab, \ is “”…

thus;

mergemaxfile "\\my_server\myproject\mergefile.max" #("Box01")

is been translated to something like

mergemaxfile "\my_server\myproject\mergefile.max" #("Box01")

which is not what you want…I would personally use

mergemaxfile "\\\\my_server\\myproject\\mergefile.max" #("Box01")

just to be on the save side…

Note, that this could be overkill, but it does seem to work for me…

Shane

dunkelzahn

Sep 22, 2008 4:31 pm

Hi Kameleon and RustyKnight,

yes, it works right now with @”\myserver\myproject”. I feel a bit ashamed , as I misspelt the path, ooops(Was a bit of a stressy day, with request from my supervisor dropping right, left and front), should have paid attention and took my time. :banghead:

Anyway, thanks to your feedback, as that put out of my confusion, and back on track.

Have a nice day you two, and cheers from Germany.

Chris