How to make Pickers open automatically for Maya scenes

Question

Wondering if there is a way to add scene nodes that reference a network path to open previously used pickers when re-opening maya files.

Currently we can get this functionality, but it copies background images to the local drives for users and we'd like to avoid local files being used.
We update centrally used pickers often and want to keep references to that path.  

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

You can export the picker file path as a picker node in your scene.

And you can use environment variables in the path to make it a bit more dynamic.