XNA issue with 3d model textures path

Question

I am a newbie in XNA. i have a problem in loading free 3d models as it has a absolute path for the textures in the artist's machine which i don't have in mine. It always come up with error of missing texture because the wrong path. I want to know how to edit this path to be relative, and it would be great if it automated as most of the models have more than three textures.

Answer 1

You have a number of alternatives:

1. Open the model in a 3D-editing software and change the path.
2. Open the model with notepad (or any other text-editor) and find and replace all paths.
3. Write a program that takes a folder or file-set as argument and let it do the work for you. (This is good if you run in to the same problem with another project)
4. Find a program someone else has already made for this.