Saving Artlantis ATL in OSX & open in XP, materials erro

[Chazz]

When I save Artlantis 2.0 ATL files in AC 11 (OSX Leopard) and then try to open the same file in Artlantis Render 2, none of my materials come across. I can open them fine in OSX but i've never got it to work under XP (which admittedly, I'm a noob in).

Any thoughts? Is this a file name length issue? Is there a workaround? Would loading them under Vista help? Any info appreciated.

[Anonymous]

Then you probably do not have the used materials stored on the other computer.
Try to export as archive when you need to port over a file to another computer. In an archive all the used materials, images, textures and objects are saved together with your ATL file.

ArtLantis menu: File/export as Archive...

Hope this helps

Sjaak

[Karl Ottenstein]

Just to add a small thing to what Sjaak (the excellent moderator of the Artlantis forums) said...

When you save an atl file, it references all materials/textures by paths on the local machine - perhaps scattered all over your disk and server. When you save an archive, it gathers all of these things together into a single folder structure so that you can move the project to another computer - whether it is another Mac or PC.

File paths on Windows and Mac OS X are entirely different, and so using an archive is the most reasonable approach to moving an atl file from one OS to the other.

Cheers,
Karl