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OptionDescription
Perform Path CheckingSets whether or not the plugin should try to fix broken paths (i.e. textures, etc.) automatically.
Search Depth

Sets how many folders deep the plugin should search when attempting to locate missing files.

Note

This feature is not intended to allow the establishment of inherently-broken workflows, in which many file references are routinely invalid. A maximum of 255 directories, total, will be searched. If MXM (or other) files with broken references are routinely used, it is recommended that they be placed together in a directory, with their textures contained either in the same directory, or a "textures" subdirectory, next to the MXM files.

To fix broken paths in a given MXM, open the file in MXED; you will be asked to locate missing textures; if all missing textures are able to be found in the same directory as the chosen texture, they will all be fixed at once, and the MXM can then be saved, storing in it the corrected paths.

Check File VersionThumbnails and preview images for textures are cached by the plugin; this means that once a large bitmap has been loaded, it need not be loaded again, and this saves much processing time. It is a problem, however, if you edit a file which has already been cached during the session – the changes will not be seen in the plugin. Enabling this option will cause the plugin to physically check whether the file version has changed each time a particular cached bitmap is accessed, updating it if the current file is newer than what is cached.
IOR Files FolderThis is the folder which will be searched first when looking for missing IOR files.
Textures Folder (1-5)These are folders which will be searched when looking for missing texture files.

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