WEBVTT 00:00.240 --> 00:07.740 Welcome to packing external data in this video you will learn how to embed images into the blend file 00:08.010 --> 00:10.910 both individually and collectively. 00:11.020 --> 00:16.550 Understand this is essential when sharing a blend file with anyone else. 00:16.590 --> 00:23.130 Now no it can create a bloated file if the external data becomes obsolete. 00:23.370 --> 00:27.090 And I'll show you how to remove external data. 00:27.480 --> 00:30.040 So let's operate on over into blender. 00:31.830 --> 00:34.320 Okay so back over in blender. 00:34.470 --> 00:35.370 I must been some. 00:35.370 --> 00:40.140 No I'm not in solid modem selling textured mode. 00:40.290 --> 00:46.560 Gonta matea OKAY IF YOU EVER good citizens tabel you rendering something and it comes out this magenta 00:46.560 --> 00:51.710 this bright pink It means you've done something to them. 00:51.750 --> 00:57.560 Basically to hide your pictures your textures from Blender. 00:57.570 --> 00:58.960 I know exactly what I've done. 00:59.010 --> 01:05.760 I've inadvertently moved my texture's folder that I was working from from my downloads into the work 01:05.790 --> 01:06.300 pack. 01:06.300 --> 01:12.290 First time currently working on into that person working folder the fluffy bunny folder and that's broken 01:12.300 --> 01:13.320 these textures. 01:13.320 --> 01:15.330 So there's a couple of ways I can go about fixing this. 01:15.330 --> 01:20.610 I can move the folder back but that defeats the point of having my work folder so I don't want to do 01:20.610 --> 01:21.230 that. 01:21.300 --> 01:23.180 I could re reference them all. 01:23.190 --> 01:28.440 And there's only three in this case that would be acceptable although if your project was much bigger 01:28.500 --> 01:34.110 this would that would be an absolute nightmare renat renaming or relinking hundreds of files even tens 01:34.110 --> 01:39.620 of files is going to be an absolute pain to do so we don't want to do that either. 01:40.020 --> 01:43.720 So first of all in order so you can experience some of this pain. 01:43.740 --> 01:46.050 I've got a short challenge for you. 01:46.350 --> 01:51.030 I would quite simply like you to rename your asit pack folder. 01:51.220 --> 01:52.180 So pause a video. 01:52.180 --> 01:58.560 Now go and find it and rename it put a one on the end or something like that so it just changes what 01:58.560 --> 01:59.920 the folders called. 02:01.890 --> 02:02.630 Okay guys. 02:02.730 --> 02:03.870 Welcome back. 02:03.960 --> 02:04.660 Right. 02:04.710 --> 02:06.690 I have already essentially done that. 02:06.690 --> 02:11.640 In fact I've moved my folder that's another thing you can do but renaming it is probably the simplest 02:11.640 --> 02:12.950 thing you could do. 02:13.260 --> 02:19.360 So let's go ahead here and make sure that it's not working. 02:19.440 --> 02:26.550 So if you go over to file and open recent you can open up your file again and just make sure that you've 02:26.550 --> 02:28.920 now essentially broken your texture's. 02:28.920 --> 02:35.590 If you go to the viewport shading and select material you should see it being bright pink. 02:35.640 --> 02:36.480 Brilliant. 02:37.250 --> 02:40.210 Well okay not exactly brilliant but it is. 02:40.220 --> 02:42.390 To do this exercise of course. 02:42.400 --> 02:49.880 So now we've got these three images no longer existing blender does not know where they are or what 02:49.880 --> 02:50.510 they do. 02:50.510 --> 02:54.890 Of course you could rename your file and they all come back again removing that one from the end or 02:54.890 --> 02:56.620 however you rename them. 02:56.620 --> 03:02.150 However if they're not what you can do is simply re link them. 03:02.150 --> 03:07.400 So if evil is so you move the impeaches to several locations on the hard drive perhaps you created your 03:07.400 --> 03:12.440 own nature back and wanted all the grass in one folder and then realized that you'd broken some other 03:12.440 --> 03:15.850 blend files and you couldn't just move one folder back. 03:15.900 --> 03:17.870 Then you'd have to relink them. 03:17.870 --> 03:22.570 So in order to do that you can do it in the text to tab itself. 03:22.670 --> 03:26.040 We've got here grass blade 10 P N G. 03:26.180 --> 03:33.240 And if we open up this file here we can navigate to the appropriate folder and I'm going to go here. 03:33.290 --> 03:35.530 OK what's a shortcut for it. 03:35.870 --> 03:39.950 Your section assets nature texture's now want some here. 03:39.950 --> 03:44.250 I only defined it again because the name is already pre populated. 03:44.270 --> 03:47.630 I can just click open image and we should see that coming back. 03:47.660 --> 03:48.950 Brilliant. 03:48.950 --> 03:55.220 Now this image here what I'm going to do to get this one back is I'm going to switch to the image editor. 03:55.220 --> 04:00.760 In fact I'm just going to make my screen a bit more comfortable for me by getting rid of the tall shelf. 04:00.920 --> 04:05.780 I'm going to split the insoo and just open up the image editor here so I don't have to keep flicking 04:05.780 --> 04:09.280 between screens and the properties panel here. 04:09.290 --> 04:13.630 I'm just going to remove that and I'm going to go to on the head by here. 04:13.680 --> 04:19.760 There's a picture next to where it says render results on my screen and I can go ahead and look what's 04:19.760 --> 04:20.680 going on. 04:20.810 --> 04:27.260 So you've got a zero next to the grass blade 10 that means next time we open up this file after saving 04:27.260 --> 04:28.070 it. 04:28.070 --> 04:29.580 That graph is going to disappear. 04:29.600 --> 04:30.860 That's what that was sorted. 04:30.950 --> 04:37.340 But it also produces 0 0 1 at the end and that's because blender essentially has two files within its 04:37.340 --> 04:44.060 database that are have the same name so scrolling down a little Lets do the grass seed which is the 04:44.060 --> 04:51.470 middle one I believe and what we can do here is if we open up the properties tab again is actually got 04:51.470 --> 04:57.610 a reference path at the top here we got the the image itself and a source path here. 04:57.650 --> 04:58.660 If we click refresh. 04:58.660 --> 05:03.800 Nothing happens because it's it's not refreshing anything is refreshing an empty file something that 05:03.800 --> 05:04.700 doesn't exist. 05:04.700 --> 05:13.270 However if I go to open I can also go and find the file I want so I'll go and do that now. 05:14.270 --> 05:20.200 In my next nature texture's pack and I can just click Accept and that should come back. 05:20.360 --> 05:22.640 Now the benefits of doing it that way is it. 05:22.640 --> 05:31.370 Now we look on our items in our scene our pictures here in the movie image editor. 05:31.580 --> 05:35.660 We haven't produced another one of these zeros zero ones. 05:35.660 --> 05:41.130 But this time round we've not so it helps prevent this from happening by going into the image editor 05:41.130 --> 05:46.490 sgo into the image that does work and adding it back in. 05:46.490 --> 05:54.530 Now once we've done that we can go ahead and select the grass seed let's say so were in that now and 05:54.530 --> 06:01.080 we can go to image and pack the image and that will pack it into the blend file. 06:01.900 --> 06:02.590 Brilliant. 06:02.740 --> 06:11.180 Now I don't know if you noticed that on the screen but this source file here is no longer highlighted. 06:11.260 --> 06:14.410 It's essentially linked within the blend file. 06:14.410 --> 06:21.340 Now fortunately for us if you ever need to link it to an external file again you can do that. 06:21.430 --> 06:23.300 There's a little button here. 06:23.360 --> 06:31.130 This is save an image into the pack blend files to disk and this one here is to unpack for file. 06:31.480 --> 06:33.310 So that will then. 06:33.310 --> 06:39.010 So we've got a couple of options here use far in the original location create when necessary will put 06:39.010 --> 06:41.720 it back exactly where it was before. 06:42.190 --> 06:45.960 And then we've got a source file again that we can use. 06:45.970 --> 06:51.580 So there's lots of options going backwards and forwards there's a pack button here as well pack and 06:51.640 --> 06:54.980 unpack are both there and we can remove the pack here. 06:55.030 --> 06:58.940 We can create some data on our hard disk as well. 06:58.990 --> 07:04.210 There's lots of options but in general you want to keep this with in your blend file and then it won't 07:04.240 --> 07:05.560 go astray. 07:05.860 --> 07:13.660 Now as one final option here and that is under the file menu if we go down right towards the bottom 07:13.660 --> 07:18.360 there's external data and there's an option here to pack all into blend. 07:18.370 --> 07:24.610 Now this will pack absolutely all the external data that you referenced into the one blend file. 07:24.610 --> 07:28.210 Now we use this with caution depending on what are doing. 07:28.300 --> 07:33.550 Now we can also turn on automatically pack into the blend file as well which again has to be used with 07:33.550 --> 07:34.150 caution. 07:34.270 --> 07:39.100 If you're working with external material on a regular basis you're working with an artist who's great 07:39.100 --> 07:44.290 at doing textures and they put their say their textures into a Dropbox file that you then reference 07:44.800 --> 07:51.010 the downside of bringing in a blender is if they do an update for you you that won't automatically update 07:51.010 --> 07:55.940 your blender file when you open up the the blend file again. 07:56.050 --> 07:58.010 That can be a disadvantage. 07:58.180 --> 08:05.200 Now if we are only working by ourself and we're only working with small images then it doesn't matter. 08:05.200 --> 08:07.060 It's not going to bloat the file that much. 08:07.110 --> 08:11.440 But if you've imported a movie and you go and pack that into your blend file your blend file is going 08:11.440 --> 08:15.880 to get huge all of a sudden which may cause the ability issues. 08:15.890 --> 08:19.000 Now one of the great things about blender is very customizable. 08:19.030 --> 08:25.450 So what you could do if you wanted to safeguard any work that you are working on if you if you like 08:25.450 --> 08:28.890 reorganizing your computer lots. 08:28.930 --> 08:33.640 Or perhaps you've got someone in your family uses your computer relights organizing it for you. 08:33.850 --> 08:35.120 And argle one of those. 08:35.270 --> 08:43.390 And we we can actually go to here take that and then save the start-up file as well. 08:43.390 --> 08:48.920 But you do that on a brand new file so I'm just going to save the work I'm working on at the moment. 08:49.030 --> 08:58.420 Go in to a new file and you go to automatically pack into blend and save your start-up file and then 08:58.420 --> 09:01.210 that setting would exist in every single one you opened up. 09:01.210 --> 09:06.550 But bear in mind you may have to undo that depending on what you're working on. 09:06.550 --> 09:15.910 So one final thing when you have your file saved like this and we have automatic turned on you may get 09:16.000 --> 09:16.740 errors. 09:16.750 --> 09:23.100 So the first error here is that my final pink square is still missing. 09:23.100 --> 09:30.430 Who would have to sort that out the iris final PRNG is not found so I've obviously moved that during 09:30.430 --> 09:31.720 one of my clean ups. 09:31.720 --> 09:38.800 You probably don't have that one missing and you may have a rabbit reference image missing as well if 09:38.800 --> 09:41.450 you're using the ones in the reference pack. 09:41.470 --> 09:44.190 So of course I've got a challenge for you. 09:45.090 --> 09:52.320 I would like you to go ahead and read link missing files series link any missing files and switch on 09:52.350 --> 09:55.950 automatically pack just for this blend file. 09:56.280 --> 10:02.240 Now an optional things turn this option on and save it to your start-up file itself. 10:02.240 --> 10:05.060 And I'm going to do that myself. 10:05.160 --> 10:08.660 It's entirely up to you whether you do that yourself. 10:08.710 --> 10:12.040 Paul's video now and relink your missing files. 10:13.780 --> 10:14.520 Okay guys. 10:14.620 --> 10:15.660 Welcome back. 10:15.670 --> 10:18.050 Let's get straight on over into blender. 10:19.480 --> 10:24.800 Right so I'm going to first of all focus on my pink image here. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.900 So it was the grass blade. 10:27.920 --> 10:30.680 So luckily in the outliner it gives me a clue. 10:30.850 --> 10:36.890 So I'm going to go to my source up the top here and open and go along to. 10:36.910 --> 10:44.620 That was in the properties of the U V editor and go ahead and open up the correct file in the nature 10:44.650 --> 10:45.830 textures. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.980 And except I should open it up. 10:47.980 --> 10:56.020 Brilliant that's brought that one back so I'm going to go ahead and automatically pack into blend file 10:56.290 --> 11:03.920 a case I've got my iris and I've also got a rabbit reference that isn't working. 11:03.970 --> 11:08.330 So rabbit reference is a background image I used earlier on. 11:08.380 --> 11:14.910 Now arguably whether or not that's important to keep I don't know at this stage I don't think I'm going 11:14.910 --> 11:17.260 to use it again so I could delete it. 11:17.290 --> 11:18.810 That would also solve the problem. 11:18.940 --> 11:24.990 But in this case I am literally just going to remove its incorrect reference. 11:25.120 --> 11:27.030 I've got a similar option here. 11:27.070 --> 11:32.780 I'm just going to probably just get rid of that bit over there so I can see what's going on. 11:32.780 --> 11:38.020 I just want to go ahead and open up the correct one and what happened there was that it was a different 11:38.020 --> 11:39.300 named folder. 11:39.420 --> 11:42.800 Had read in the folder of course and there's the rabbit reference re. 11:42.820 --> 11:49.300 So I can just click set and I'm going to go file and say yes and I've got one final thing which is my 11:49.390 --> 11:50.400 iris. 11:50.530 --> 11:55.820 Okay so that is a texture we have applied to the eyes. 11:55.840 --> 11:58.220 I'm going to have to go hunt that one down. 11:59.020 --> 12:03.280 So eyes is it's on their image texture. 12:03.270 --> 12:11.470 Iris final I think this is the one and I've put that in my supporting docs open image long ago file 12:11.470 --> 12:12.210 and save. 12:12.210 --> 12:14.460 Are there any more errors. 12:14.560 --> 12:18.760 Iris final Iris final are because I've done that. 12:18.760 --> 12:21.300 It's actually renamed it. 12:22.180 --> 12:22.700 There. 12:22.720 --> 12:26.770 So let's just see if we can bring in the appropriate one. 12:26.860 --> 12:27.880 In fact let's see. 12:27.880 --> 12:36.310 First of all if it's got a zero next to it so euv image editor and let's open it up. 12:36.390 --> 12:44.000 So Iris final It's not got a zero next to it yet so we can remove that with the cross just here. 12:44.110 --> 12:46.450 And as it says it's under link it. 12:46.450 --> 12:49.290 We need to use the shift key at the same time. 12:49.440 --> 12:51.030 So I'm going to do that now. 12:51.130 --> 12:58.390 And when I press that we should have forced a zero next to the iris final. 12:58.390 --> 12:59.560 I didn't have the open. 12:59.560 --> 13:01.510 Let's try again. 13:01.570 --> 13:07.510 Iris final so I'm going to go ahead and save my file it will come up with an error. 13:07.790 --> 13:17.470 However hopefully when I reopen it and save it's sorted now because I've done a lot of work on something 13:17.470 --> 13:23.000 that I can't see lets go and make sure that it is done before continuing forward. 13:23.200 --> 13:28.070 Now again you might not have any of these issues on your rabbits. 13:28.090 --> 13:32.210 I'm just going to make sure I don't have on mine. 13:32.590 --> 13:34.270 So let's just zoom in. 13:34.270 --> 13:37.120 It looks like you've got the right texture there. 13:37.370 --> 13:38.710 It looks good. 13:40.070 --> 13:44.840 As it renders out Yep I'm happy with that that the iris has been applied. 13:44.870 --> 13:45.860 Brilliant. 13:45.860 --> 13:47.560 How did you guys get on. 13:47.570 --> 13:53.270 I hope you recovered all of your images we've got no more magenta squares and I will see you guys in 13:53.270 --> 13:54.310 the next lecture.