Introduction

This script will go through all the nodes in a scene, Through all materials, And switch the texture images to ones located in a folder of your choice.

So you could export a scene using the Daz Studio's "collect maps option" then in the Maps folder produced by Daz Studio, you could re-size the "heavyweight" texture images to something smaller ( ex to 1024x1024 )

Then use mcjAltTex to switch all the texture images in the scene to the ones found in the Maps folder

Now the scene that crashed Blender/Cycles doesn't

Due to Aiko 4's large ( 4000x4000 ) image textures, the scene shown here was refusing to render in Blender/Cucles

but using the smaller texture images ( 1024x1024) it rendered without problem, in the fast GPU mode

( Daz Studio Scenes in Blender and its Cycles path-tracing renderer ... see my free script mcjTeleBlender for details )

History

April 2 2013 0:15 released

Installation

The zip package is found at the bottom of this page

unzip it in your daz content folder, typically C:\Program Files\DAZ\Studio\content\

once installed, it will appear in your content library, under Studio / Scripts / mcasual

Use

Click the "browse" button, browse to and selec the folder containing the lightweight ( or just different ) set of texture images

Click on the "Do it" button

Seconds later a report will appear.

License

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