Great video and really helpful! But I have a problem that i can't fix. When I open my model the colors of it are weird mixed with green, pink blue...Can you plz tell me what I have done wrong? Thank you!
@@oldmatelarry7727 I got the same problem. If you have the textures of the model, go to files, external disk, missing files and then go find the textures file and press open images.
i watched countless tutorials on this problem for many days... none was able to fix the problem until i discovered this video. IT WORKED MORE THAN I WANTED IT TO. BEST, SIMPLE, CLEAR AND STRAIGHT FORWARD VIDEO. Thank You.
Blender is extremely deep (in a good way) and learning it without formal training can come with brain-exhaustion. This short tutorial has relieved a lot of my brain trauma. THANKS!
THIS IS SUCH A LIFESAVER! Also, A quick tip for those who are plagued by this problem after recovering an autosaved file - if you specify that Blender make all file paths absolute rather than relative, it won't try searching the directory or folder that it ends up in (temp, if you're recovering an autosave) and will instead keep the links to their original locations in the file system. I think this eliminates the problem entirely, but as a result if you want to move the blender file and its asset files into a new folder everything will break in the same way, so only do this if you're absolutely positive you won't be migrating the files anywhere else.
Also, check to see if the material in the background is the cause of the problem (you can check by selecting the "World Properties" and see what the preview looks like). For me, my textures were showing up fine in the Viewport Shading but when I checked Cycles my model had the texture but was also shaded with pink. I searched high and low and found out this was what was causing the problem for me. Hope this helps someone else! :)
hey same proplem after two years anyways when i import the file in a new project every thing fine but in my main project its pink how do i enter world proprties plz
Maybe it's because of the global lockdown. The internet services have had a few changes to reduce traffic. You cannot play above 480p in my country (India). Is everything else playing on higher resolution ?
this one is really good but, my blender keeps telling me that there is no texture found, so i did the next best thing, and instead of letting blender do the job, i went into the shading- and browsed for the texture myself and its applied directly, this option also very easy and more productive if you maybe don't like the actual texture and you want to replace it.
Solid information man, much apprecaite you taking the time to go over quick tips that can be frustrating when your first starting out, lol. Appreciate it
I always knew blender had something like this somewhere but could never find it, thank you saved me many hours of painfully loading the individual texture for each map
This was such an easy fix, I had no idea Blender could even do this. I was worried I'd have to re-link everything by hand. You are a lifesaver, thank you!
probably names of this files are different. for example: file name is "model_texture" but blender is trying to find file "model texture" (without _). try to remove _ in file name and try again find missing files.
Wow, my gut instinct when this happened to me in Blender was to do an internet search for it, because nothing in Blender is logical or intuitive. Turns out, this one time it actually was! :)
this kinda helped, but it keeps saying some textures can't be found, but i'm looking at them right there in the folder. and this is a recent project that i opened a couple days ago, and nothing was pink.
What if all the textures are embeded on the .blend file because I dont have the image files, just the .blend file how do I fix it? I know it had textures because I go to materials and set somthing as image textures, I can find all the textures
Try checking for time stamps or additional text in your texture file. The MTL file is looking for the exact file name. In my case, i transferred my KIT to my HD and when it did this it added a timestamp to the file name. I needed to use a bulk rename to get rid of the text at the end. It was really annoying.
Why the hell would this happen if I didn’t move anything. I download an image, went straight to blender and attached it and it was instantly purple. Wtf.
It happened with reference images in my case, and since there were only 3 of them in a folder, it took a second to fix the problem! This really helps, thanks:)
Okay, that was f**king brilliant. Thanks for helping. I was bashing my head against the wall because nobody uses the "External Data/Pack Resources" when they sell their assets online. That would solve this problem. But now you've shown me how to fix this monster issue. Cheers
I'm having a problem of my own with pink textures that may or may not be unrelated: while trying to apply a texture to a simple cube through an image texture node, the cube comes out completely pink, even though the material preview shows the correct texture. Weirder, some textures will work on the cube, while others don't! Getting this problem in both Cycles and Eevee. Gonna guess my problem is a different one. Great video though!
omg thanks for this video! i deleted so many models i spend forever on because i thought the textures were broken and the model was based around the texture and if the texture was gone i would just make a new one
for some people if you download a model or file .blend some textures can have a different format that the one you downloaded convert it then do automatic search for example an error would pop up with the .name like .TGA convert then search
Thank you for making this video. I sam still very new to Blender and couldn't figure out why the project I downloaded was pink/purple. Never would have thought to look in File.
nope, I did what you said, but when I click find files, it says files could not be found, but they are there like you showed us. Why? Beyond frustrating!
Thank you, This is my first day, and I restarted twice, because it would crash while rendering, and I would come back to missing textures. Thank you again for the help.
the missing textures are always a problem for me, on any project over 2-4 hours all textures bump maps included turn pink out of the blue and make me retexture everything
It pains me to admit how long I spent trying to figure out wtf was going on when I moved one of my folders around but could still see the link and even the texture previews looked fine. This solved it immediately. Thank you!
Try checking for time stamps or additional text in your texture file. The MTL file is looking for the exact file name. In my case, i transferred my KIT to my HD and when it did this it added a timestamp to the file name. I needed to use a bulk rename to get rid of the text at the end. It was really annoying.
I have a similar problem, but the deal is that when I load the textures to the Image texture node the texture file has a "UDIM" written which it doesnt have in the actual file
Thank you! I'm just starting out and the program is already daunting in itself, so when I woke up and saw all the textures missing after all my work learning yesterday, well.. lol! Great video :)
@@MrCuptastic After I exported j had made a folder for it to go into and a put it in and then went into blender. Then I imported it and pressed texture paint and it turned to purple and I did the thing find missing files but nothing happening after many minutes and I kept trying. Now it’s went from being pink to not changing color at all and just saying missing texture detected.
@@akf2918 I apologize, I started using the program for the first time 2 days ago, so I'm still very much a noob lol! I don't know what might be the issue unfortunately. I did some reading around tho, but the only things I got was to make sure you're using an updated version of blender. I also saw this, but not sure how helpful it is: "In texture paint mode in the upper bar is a texture slot option. Yours might be set to single image without an image. Change it to material and it will detect your created image."
thanks a lot for this tutorial, i had this same problem for a lot of my old files which became purple as you showed. your tutoriel allowed me to retrieve these files again. I'm very happy of this because this was a hard work during several months. so again and again thanks a looooot.
Thank you big time! Subbed. As a Maya user had no idea how to do this obviously. I know it in Maya but useless here :) Quick search and done. Thanks again!
Probably the 4th fix I have come across that doesn't work, i don't even get any error messages about it either and this is me testing it throughout several different models.
I imported an OBJ file, but the textures in the TEXTURE folder that came with the object aren't loading. The object looks WHITE. Find missing files didn't work for me.
Thank you for making this! It was very helpful to import the textures for a Kiryu model (Godzilla 2002-2003 character) I found from MMDCharizard (I am aware this is oddly specific, but it was the situation this applied to). So again, thank you.
Hi everyone! Let me know if you have any questions about this tutorial in the comments below! :)
thank you so much!!
Great video and really helpful! But I have a problem that i can't fix. When I open my model the colors of it are weird mixed with green, pink blue...Can you plz tell me what I have done wrong? Thank you!
@@mraparadektos4252 what i you download a file and its pink but it doesn't come with any textures at all
@@oldmatelarry7727 yes its because u may missing the textures files
@@oldmatelarry7727 I got the same problem. If you have the textures of the model, go to files, external disk, missing files and then go find the textures file and press open images.
Dude you're a life saver, I just wanna hug you.
Glad it helped!
Maintain Social Distancing 😂
@@nfmg1719 yes but its online hug
oooo my god are you gay
i watched countless tutorials on this problem for many days... none was able to fix the problem until i discovered this video. IT WORKED MORE THAN I WANTED IT TO. BEST, SIMPLE, CLEAR AND STRAIGHT FORWARD VIDEO. Thank You.
Blender is extremely deep (in a good way) and learning it without formal training can come with brain-exhaustion. This short tutorial has relieved a lot of my brain trauma. THANKS!
yes
@@omegablaze8008 yes?
@@watashiwhyareyouhere yes!
THIS IS SUCH A LIFESAVER!
Also, A quick tip for those who are plagued by this problem after recovering an autosaved file - if you specify that Blender make all file paths absolute rather than relative, it won't try searching the directory or folder that it ends up in (temp, if you're recovering an autosave) and will instead keep the links to their original locations in the file system. I think this eliminates the problem entirely, but as a result if you want to move the blender file and its asset files into a new folder everything will break in the same way, so only do this if you're absolutely positive you won't be migrating the files anywhere else.
Also, check to see if the material in the background is the cause of the problem (you can check by selecting the "World Properties" and see what the preview looks like). For me, my textures were showing up fine in the Viewport Shading but when I checked Cycles my model had the texture but was also shaded with pink. I searched high and low and found out this was what was causing the problem for me. Hope this helps someone else! :)
it helped me, thank you!! :)
Cheers!!!
hey same proplem after two years anyways when i import the file in a new project every thing fine but in my main project its pink how do i enter world proprties plz
Can you please explain a bit more?
4 years later and still savin lives. Thank you so much for this short, sweet and to the point video.
Such a simple fix, but a headache to figure out. Thank you for this. You're a life saver ❤
Glad it helped!
@@TheCGEssentials ❤
Looks like I have to start from finding missing video. Don't know why I cannot play your video in better quality than 360p.
No clue - it's uploaded higher than that
@@TheCGEssentials I'm having the same problem with the video quality.
Maybe it's because of the global lockdown. The internet services have had a few changes to reduce traffic. You cannot play above 480p in my country (India). Is everything else playing on higher resolution ?
@@sussyflowerperson9212 Other videos play well on high resolution, even on this channel.
@@mipe7755 Oh. Then it seems like a different issue. Just in case, try playing it by using a VPN.
this one is really good but, my blender keeps telling me that there is no texture found, so i did the next best thing, and instead of letting blender do the job, i went into the shading- and browsed for the texture myself and its applied directly, this option also very easy and more productive if you maybe don't like the actual texture and you want to replace it.
!ACTUAL FIX! at 1:30. Go to file: external data: find missing files and select your missing textures from there.
Solid information man, much apprecaite you taking the time to go over quick tips that can be frustrating when your first starting out, lol. Appreciate it
I always knew blender had something like this somewhere but could never find it, thank you saved me many hours of painfully loading the individual texture for each map
This was such an easy fix, I had no idea Blender could even do this. I was worried I'd have to re-link everything by hand. You are a lifesaver, thank you!
the thing is there is no folder
Extract it
...same
it worked hhhhh i was having this problem for 3 months and its so simple thx m8
my man, ur a LIFE savior. 10 min before I had to deliver a school project (blender model) it all had turned purple. tysm!!!!
Didn't work for me, says could not find files
probably names of this files are different. for example: file name is "model_texture" but blender is trying to find file "model texture" (without _). try to remove _ in file name and try again find missing files.
Wow, my gut instinct when this happened to me in Blender was to do an internet search for it, because nothing in Blender is logical or intuitive. Turns out, this one time it actually was! :)
A LIFE SAVER I SPENT 6+ HORUS CHECKING CONSTENTLY ON MY RENDER AND I CHECKED AT ONE POINT AND IT WAS PINK YOU SAVED ME❤
It doesn’t work for me, I click the image file and it doesn’t let me click it or highlight it to then click find missing files
Try putting the specific textures in one folder so that it's easier for it to scan it, since im pretty sure it doesn't allow it to highlight
Thanks a lot buddy , you have saved my atleast 2 hrs😭😭 , i want to submit tommorow my project , you saved my time , thanks 🥳🥳😍😍
Thnx SOOOOO MUCH! This Helped Very MUCH! THANK U!
I was having issues with this exact file, wow
this kinda helped, but it keeps saying some textures can't be found, but i'm looking at them right there in the folder. and this is a recent project that i opened a couple days ago, and nothing was pink.
@@Slog32 omg same!! It's so frustrating seeing all these tutorials when none of them helps
IT NEVER WORKS I GET A BUNCH OF ERROR MESSAGES
What if all the textures are embeded on the .blend file
because I dont have the image files, just the .blend file
how do I fix it?
I know it had textures because I go to materials and set somthing as image textures, I can find all the textures
Same, for some reason I cant find anything related to this though.
Thanks bro, this really helped me. At first I got frustrated by the missing textures. But then your videos came to my recommendation and helped me.
Glad it helped!
Try checking for time stamps or additional text in your texture file. The MTL file is looking for the exact file name. In my case, i transferred my KIT to my HD and when it did this it added a timestamp to the file name. I needed to use a bulk rename to get rid of the text at the end. It was really annoying.
I know it was 3 years ago when you put the video up but it's still a gem today! Thank you.
it just tells me can not find file (insert file name here)
same :(
@@roggie2036 same
Why the hell would this happen if I didn’t move anything. I download an image, went straight to blender and attached it and it was instantly purple. Wtf.
Omg u saved my life I was making my biggest ever project in blender
Glad you got it working!
YOU ABSOLUTE HERO, YOU SAVED ME, i had 400 objects with 400 something different textures. Subbed,THANK YOU!!
Glad I could help!
If I do this my blender crashes :( Have a pretty beefy system tho.
Thank you! I panicked when i load file and saw a pink texture. I didn't know that this problem is easy to fix.
I LOVE PEOPLE WHO DO TUTORIALS, THANKIUUUUUUU
It happened with reference images in my case, and since there were only 3 of them in a folder, it took a second to fix the problem! This really helps, thanks:)
Glad it helped!
you no joke, just saved my entire file. THANK YOU!~
thanks so much man! i made my textures in a project i was working on and the next day everything was pink. now its good again! thanks a bunch.
Glad I could help!
Hey, I have a question whenever you go to shading i don`t see the open or new+. Its on the top in the middle in that black box can you help me?
AS ALWAYS THE BEST EXPLANATIONS ON THE TOPIC... everyone wannabe a tutorial maker but few know how to explain things... you're my fav! thanks
Trying my best - thanks!
Okay, that was f**king brilliant. Thanks for helping. I was bashing my head against the wall because nobody uses the "External Data/Pack Resources" when they sell their assets online. That would solve this problem. But now you've shown me how to fix this monster issue. Cheers
Just now seeing this public service announcement. Very much appreciated!
I'm having a problem of my own with pink textures that may or may not be unrelated: while trying to apply a texture to a simple cube through an image texture node, the cube comes out completely pink, even though the material preview shows the correct texture. Weirder, some textures will work on the cube, while others don't! Getting this problem in both Cycles and Eevee.
Gonna guess my problem is a different one. Great video though!
I don't 100% understand - how could the cube be pink while also having the material preview show the correct texture? Wouldn't it be one or the other?
Went thru 5 garbage tutorials until I found this gem. Bless you!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much. This is far better than manually re-inputting each individual texture.
Lol - true statement for sure - thanks for watching!
omg thanks for this video! i deleted so many models i spend forever on because i thought the textures were broken and the model was based around the texture and if the texture was gone i would just make a new one
for some people if you download a model or file .blend some textures can have a different format that the one you downloaded convert it then do automatic search for example an error would pop up with the .name like .TGA convert then search
Thank you for making this video. I sam still very new to Blender and couldn't figure out why the project I downloaded was pink/purple. Never would have thought to look in File.
After hours. Finally a simple video showing me instead of some ball aching way lol. Thanks man. Liked and subbed
Man, very effective, it really did find the missing textures, thank you alot!
nope, I did what you said, but when I click find files, it says files could not be found, but they are there like you showed us. Why? Beyond frustrating!
Thank you, This is my first day, and I restarted twice, because it would crash while rendering, and I would come back to missing textures. Thank you again for the help.
Ohh dude thank you soooo much for this tip!
Well... you saved me probably an hour or more of linking to a kitbash texture folder I moved so thank you
Although it only plays in 360 quality, it helped in no time. great! thanks
Thank you very much, just saved me from a stress show, I built a new workstation and lost a texture when I moved my work over
Sometimes when i export a model to blender the textures is like black purple when its not suppose to be do you know how to fix that?
Black/Purple?
Yes black. whenever i export something that has a wood texture, there are like 2 textures in one model. So its mixed up
the missing textures are always a problem for me, on any project over 2-4 hours all textures bump maps included turn pink out of the blue and make me retexture everything
forgot to say this but thank you, you saved my animation career
It pains me to admit how long I spent trying to figure out wtf was going on when I moved one of my folders around but could still see the link and even the texture previews looked fine. This solved it immediately. Thank you!
Thnak youuuuu so much , i suffered for hours to get them back and thanx u to u they r back and i motivated again !!
Glad I could help!
HAHA THANKS MAN. Funny thing, this is the exact same kitbash I purchased and faced the issue. Again, I appreciate the fix.
LOL - that's why I made the video in the first place :)
ok i have 20 texture files and the file list seems to be listing all
missing.png
missing.png
missing.png
missing.png
missing.png
missing.png
...etc
Are they in a folder? Can you select that folder with this method?
Try checking for time stamps or additional text in your texture file. The MTL file is looking for the exact file name. In my case, i transferred my KIT to my HD and when it did this it added a timestamp to the file name. I needed to use a bulk rename to get rid of the text at the end. It was really annoying.
This is a life saver for beginners. Super helpful 👍
Thank you so freaking much!!! short and just gets straight to the point
Whooo what's up guys 😅😅😂 i love your introl Big Man 🎉❤
even in blender 3.0 this saved me
thanks a ton
Glad it helped!
I have a similar problem, but the deal is that when I load the textures to the Image texture node the texture file has a "UDIM" written which it doesnt have in the actual file
Thank you! I'm just starting out and the program is already daunting in itself, so when I woke up and saw all the textures missing after all my work learning yesterday, well.. lol! Great video :)
Hey could you help me? I press find missing files and wait for it to load but nothing happens..
@@akf2918 are you in the same file folder that you used for your textures when you press find? I hope you'll get it back
@@MrCuptastic After I exported j had made a folder for it to go into and a put it in and then went into blender. Then I imported it and pressed texture paint and it turned to purple and I did the thing find missing files but nothing happening after many minutes and I kept trying. Now it’s went from being pink to not changing color at all and just saying missing texture detected.
@@akf2918 I apologize, I started using the program for the first time 2 days ago, so I'm still very much a noob lol! I don't know what might be the issue unfortunately. I did some reading around tho, but the only things I got was to make sure you're using an updated version of blender.
I also saw this, but not sure how helpful it is:
"In texture paint mode in the upper bar is a texture slot option. Yours might be set to single image without an image. Change it to material and it will detect your created image."
@@MrCuptastic ok thanks
I'm having this problem except the textures aren't purple-pink, they're metal. Any help would be greatly apreciated.
Thank you so much! I don't know why I didn't do this earlier haha
I love you. you literally saved my life billion times.
You dropped this, my king 👑
I cannot believe how much you just save my butt with this video...And I have been using Blender for eons and never knew this! Thank you!
Glad I could help! :)
your starting to speak style is really interesting and thanks for teaching for free to everyone :)
Thank you! 😃
it works! after running into so many other blender problems and spending hours, I feel heckin amazing! this took like 5 minutes!
This is an awesome tip, thanks buddy :-)
You're the best man. I love your content.
This helped me with my new Cyberpunk Kitbash3d set. Love your content mate. Thank's a bunch!
Exactly what I needed! Many Thanks!
Still works perfectly as of Blender 4.1
thanks a lot for this tutorial, i had this same problem for a lot of my old files which became purple as you showed. your tutoriel allowed me to retrieve these files again. I'm very happy of this because this was a hard work during several months.
so again and again thanks a looooot.
:)
Maaaaan! You saved my models and so much time remapping each of them! Thanks a lot sir!
Glad I could help!
Thank you big time! Subbed. As a Maya user had no idea how to do this obviously. I know it in Maya but useless here :) Quick search and done. Thanks again!
the intros to these vids are awesome and wake me up when i forget how welcoming they are haha
I have q similar problem, nothing purple there,the character i downloaded is invisible
Probably the 4th fix I have come across that doesn't work, i don't even get any error messages about it either and this is me testing it throughout several different models.
This may have been created around 2 years ago but this still helps, thanks!!!
Im having problems with this method, it found the files but wont add them to the model is there any way to fix this?
God you just saved me so much time trying to reimport everything. Thank you so much!
U just saved me from not trying something new thanks a lot!!!!!!!
This is what I have been looking
Great job sir ...thank you
Glad to help!
BRO YOU JUST SAVED MY MONTAGE THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
Glad I could help!
I new Blender had option like this! Saved a lot of time. Thanks.
Glad I could help!
Oh Thank you so much for this! I tried putting back my .blend file to it's original location and I panicked when the pink textures still persisted!
I imported an OBJ file, but the textures in the TEXTURE folder that came with the object aren't loading. The object looks WHITE. Find missing files didn't work for me.
thanks man , helped me a lot , i changed the names of the files and the textures went missing , this is my 2nd Project
Thank you for making this! It was very helpful to import the textures for a Kiryu model (Godzilla 2002-2003 character) I found from MMDCharizard (I am aware this is oddly specific, but it was the situation this applied to). So again, thank you.
Great! I have had this experience without a clue what to do about it. Now I do. Thanks!
I know its been a year since this video is up, but thank you for this tutorial! you saved me
Glad it helped!