3DS max - Mass Texture

[Shinamori]

Is there a way to do a mass texture change one format to another? Like, if I have all the textures set as DDS in the in the material editor I want to change it to TGA, how would I do that besides doing it one by one? I'm using a Multi/Sub Material by the way. By the way, I'm not asking about convertor one texture format to another.

[Perversonality]

I think the only way you are going to be able to do it is through MaxScript

[TekNeek]

I have done this with a Maya file.

that was a bit of a risky hack, so I do not encourage you to try it, but if you do, make a backup og the .maxfile.

I opened up the scene in notepad, searched for .psd and replaced it with .tga. Saved. And luckily enough, it worked.

Didn't expect it to work , but it did. But like I say, there's more risk in that this will not work, and destroy your scene, than it succeeding, so I won't encourage you to do this.

[poopipe]

several ways....

its definitely scriptable although navigating your way through the material editor in maxscript is a bit of a trial.

you can change the linked images using the asset tracking dialog - it'll be one by one but it's a lot easier than going through the material editor

taking a similar approach to tekneek you could export to DAE (use opencollada for sanity's sake), pop that open in an xml / text editor, change all the entries in <library_images> to the desired paths and reimport.