Changing the Corona material library location?

[Tom]

Hi,

Currently the Corona material library location is: C:\Program Files\Corona\materials

It's not very convenient as I could save some storage on my system disk by moving it to another drive.

So I moved this folder out of the system drive, and when I launch Corona renderer I have an error message saying I must install the library, but I don't have any option to look for the new library folder location.

Is there anyway I can move the library out of its default location?

Thank you,

[Tom]

Hi all,

Is there any knowledgeable person to answer me please?

Your help is much appreciated.


Thank you.

[Ondra]

Hi,
we will not develop the material library further (except for adding new materials), and instead it will be folded into Chaos Cosmos in future versions.

You can now simply move the library anywhere, e.g. D:\, and use mklink /J "C:\Program Files\Corona\materials" D:\materials command on windows to create a junction ("redirect"). Everything will work as if the folder was in C:/, but it will be stored in D:

[Tom]

Hey, thanks a lot @Ondra,

Sorry but I'm not sure to understand how to proceed: where to enter the command line 'mklink /J "C:\Program Files\Corona\materials" D:\materials'?
Do I have to run this in a CMD interface? Or somewhere inside 3dsmax?

Thank you for clarifying, much appreciated

[romullus]

Click on windows start menu, type command prompt, open it as administrator and enter commands as instructed in Ondra's message. You can find more detailed instructions here: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

[Tom]

Solved!
Thank you so much to both of you, your help is greatly appreciated 👍