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1. Mel Scripting

   

   Topic by passerby · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Wondering if it is possible to make a mel script that exports the contents of your different view layers off as different files into the same directory as the MB file, with pre-set options. what im trying to do is make something i can put in my shelf that will let me export out my High Poly, Low Poly and Cage in one click…

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   Reply by passerby · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   thanks will try that out when i get home. sorry for being so stupid when it comes to scripting.

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   Reply by passerby · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   ya thanks i really need to take the time to learn some scripting at somepoint, since it would help me build a nicer workflow and tools to use in maya, and allow me to do more with UDK, and hell mel syntax seems similar to php in a way which also i should pick up at sometime.

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   Reply by haiddasalami · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Ah no problem. Learned couple of new commands, gonna try and do this delimiter thing. Odd not working.

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   Reply by haiddasalami · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   string $layers[] = `ls -type displayLayer`;string $extension = ".SBM";for ($layer in $layers){ if ($layer != "defaultLayer"){ //Set all layers to off then turn the current layer on. setLayerTo all".visibility" 0; setAttr ($layer+".visibility") 1; //Grab connections of the layer $conns = `listConnections -destination 1…

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   Reply by passerby · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   k this is what got string $layers[] = `ls -type displayLayer`;for ($layer in $layers){ if ($layer != "defaultLayer"){ //Set all layers to off then turn the current layer on. setLayerTo all".visibility" 0; setAttr ($layer+".visibility") 1; //Grab connections of the layer $conns = `listConnections -destination 1 -source 0…

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   Reply by haiddasalami · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   file -q -sceneName That will give you the current project the file is stored in. My plan would be to take that, remove the / pop off the last index of the array and construct back again. Then add $layer back and append the extensions as a string. Probably a better way to do this but dont have maya right now. Always sucked…

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   Reply by passerby · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   thanks got the export commend in there.string $layers[] = `ls -type displayLayer`;for ($layer in $layers){ if ($layer != "defaultLayer"){ //Set all layers to off then turn the current layer on. setLayerTo all".visibility" 0; setAttr ($layer+".visibility") 1; //Grab connections of the layer $conns = `listConnections…

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   Reply by haiddasalami · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

   Yup. I didnt have xnormal installed but you should be able to copy what the log spits out and replace the path (look into the file command. Believe you can query the scene name and do some string manipulation) and append the layer name.

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    Reply by passerby · Oct 2011 · Home› Unreal Engine

    ah nice, so i can just get all the export stuff from watching the console as i do a export, and maybe replace the name with the layer name variable.