Maya tips 011 - Finding missing Texture

Maya will sometimes lost track of where to get the Textures, as reflected in the White Texture on the object when "Hardware Texturing" is turned on by pressing 6 on keyboard.

Before finding the Texture in Maya, make sure the all the PNG files are downloaded somewhere in the computer. In Animation Mentor case, go to AMP, the Character file, right click and "Get Dependencies".

Also download the newest version Textures by pressing "Get".

Follow these steps:

1. Go "Hypershade".

2. There will be missing picture in "Texture" tab. Left click on it.

3.  Open "Attribute Editor".

4. Click on the Folder icon.
5. Look for the Texture in the "Documents" folder.
6. The file should be the same as the one indicated here. Unless there is an updated version with a different name.
7. Click open and it is done!

If there is a Transparency issue go to http://truepassionforart.blogspot.sg/2016/01/maya-tips-010-solving-texture.html