Changing Texture Format

thx

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Thanks! YOU ARE THE MAN! I search this script hole day, and now I find it, and it works perfectly! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

This morning I was wondering if this could be possible as I found a nice 3d texture maker but it only exports in jpg , tiff tga... and I use dds, but this way I can go mapping all the objets and when I've all the textures converted tu dds do the swap.

THanks for the script!

I got the same problem some time ago. Note this script ignores case.

(
	local sFrom = "tga" -- previous format
	local sTo = "jpg" -- the format that we want
	
	local aBmaps = getClassInstances BitmapTexture
	for Bmap in aBmaps do (
	
			local sFilename = Bmap.filename
			local sPath = getFilenamePath sFilename
			local sFile = getFilenameFile sFilename
			local sType = replace (getFilenameType sFilename) 1 1 ""
		
			if toLower sType == toLower sFrom do Bmap.filename = sPath + sFile + "." + sTo
	)
)

Holy Cow!!!!!!!
This is awesome, amazing....
this really really helped
Thank you so much

Is it possible for this to work with changing the filename and not the extension also. Tried to edit what you had but without luck. Thanks.

This code only trims the filename from the left. I wanted to replace 'Archmodels' with 'AM'. Here's the code. Thanks for a starting point.

ReplacedString = "archmodels" as string
NewString = "AM" as string
patternIs = NewString + NewString + "*"
theMaps = getClassInstances BitmapTexture

for i in 1 to theMaps.count do (
	fileName = theMaps[i].filename
	newFilename = trimleft fileName ReplacedString
	new2filename = NewString + newFilename
	
	if matchPattern new2filename pattern:patternIs ignoreCase:false == false then (
	theMaps[i].filename = new2Filename
	)
)

This solution will replace all "archmodels" strings with "AM" only if "AM..." file realy exists.
I did'nt test this but I hope that works ;)

fn replaceFilename currentString: withString: =
(
fn isValidMap map = isKindOf m.filename string and matchPattern m.filename pattern:(currentString + "*")
local maps = getClassInstances BitmapTex
local appendPath = pathConfig.appendPath
if maps.count > 0 do
(
for m in maps where isValidMap m do
(
path = getFilenamePath m.filename
name = filenameFromPath m.filename
if doesFileExist (string = appendPath path (substituteString name currentString withString)) do
(
setProperty m #filename string
)
)
)
)
replaceFilename currentString:"archmodels" withString:"AM"

Hi barigazy. Thanks for the code. But it's throwing an error on line fn isValidMap like

-- Error occurred in anonymous codeblock;

. I've since get this working with the help of pixamoon over on a seperate thread I created. http://www.scriptspot.com/forums/3ds-max/general-scripting/convert-undef… Here's the code.

OldString = "Arch137" as string -- Change to suit
NewString = "AM137" as string -- Ditto
theMaps = getClassInstances BitmapTexture
for i in 1 to theMaps.count do (
	fileName = theMaps[i].filename
	if matchPattern fileName pattern:"AM*" ignoreCase:false == false then (
		newFilename = trimleft fileName OldString
		new2filename = NewString + newFilename
		theMaps[i].filename = new2Filename -- renames
	)
)

One downside of this is it only replaces the first instance of the string but it works well :)