relativetoabs

Changes the reference to a file from relative to absolute.

Syntax

relativetoabsolute(path_1, path_2)

path_1: The path starting from the root directory to which path_2 will be appended.
path_2: The local path including the file name, which will be appended to path_1.

Template:

{relativetoabs(d:/"software/motion/", "junk/foo.txt")}

Output:

D:/software/motion/junk/foo.txt

relativetoabs can be used in Templex templates within the MBD pre-processing window to modify the method used to reference a file.