Recent builds of Blender 2.5 trunk, up to r30349, lose the directory context of world and environment map textures. I have been creating and testing several world texture and environment map textures to simulate reflection for the book I’m writing. Occasionally, the blendfile loses the location of the texture file because Blender seems to be prefixing the location of the blendfile itself. So for instance the correct location for a HDR texture should be:-

C: \Users\colin\Desktop\Church_HarvestLobby\

Whereas it appears to look for the file at:-

C:\tmp\2.52\2.52\Users\colin\Desktop\Church_HarvestLobby\

I have seen the file name become even longer at one stage.

C:\tmp\2.52\2.52\2.52\2.52\2.52\2.52\2.52\Users\colin\Desktop\Church_HarvestLobby\

I compile my own versions using MinGW, that are also offered on Graphical.org

The attached blendfile demonstrates the problem if you load it and check the world texture location it will point to :-

C:\tmp\2.52\2.52\Users\colin\Desktop\Church_HarvestLobby\

The blendfile is in c:\temp\2.52 but the texture should be as shown above.

Windows 7 Ultimate
PC AMD64 X2 Dual Core 4200+
NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT