My tool exports the entire scene with all the textures to a new location,
perhaps it has some handy line or lines that can help you out!
import maya.cmds as cmds
import os
import shutil
def AskUserForSaveLocation():
"""
This function asks the user for the new location of the .mb, .ma file,
the user only needs to provide a direction.
"""
#newLocation ='C:\Users\FFION2\Desktop\GDC_VFX_CLASS' #hardcoded > enter
your target directory.
multipleFilters = "Maya Files (*.ma *.mb);;Maya ASCII (*.ma);;Maya
Binary (*.mb);;All Files (*.*)"
newLocation = cmds.fileDialog2(fileFilter=multipleFilters, fileMode=2,
dialogStyle=2)
print (newLocation, "choosen directory")
return newLocation[0]
def copyToNewLocation(srcFiles, destDirectory):
"""
This function checks the for the current location of the file. It also
copies each one of the assets to a new directory specified by the user.
"""
#It goes trough each texture as well as the maya file and place them in
the new location.
for i in srcFiles:
print(i, "Got transferred")
shutil.copy(i, destDirectory )
def AskAndCopyCurrentSceneToNewDirectory():
"""
This function creates a window with a button. It also asks the user to
enter a new directory and copies the maya file as well as the teuxtures to
the new directory.
"""
#Location of the current maya scene.
mySceneAssets = cmds.file( q=True, l=True, loc=True )
newLocation = AskUserForSaveLocation()
#call fucntion copyToNewLocation.
copyToNewLocation(mySceneAssets, newLocation)
mr_copyNewLocUI = ''
if cmds.window(mr_copyNewLocUI, exists= True):
cmds.deleteUI(mr_copyNewLocUI)
else:
mr_copyNewLocUI = cmds.window(widthHeight = (357, 139), title =
'mr_CopyAllToNewLocation', mxb = False, mnb = False)
mainCol = cmds.columnLayout( adj = True)
cmds.rowColumnLayout( numberOfColumns=2, columnAttach=(1, 'right', 0),
columnWidth=[(1, 100), (2, 250)] )
#Create a menuBar with menuItems
cmds.text( label='' )
currDirBtm = cmds.button(label= 'ExportAllTextures/MayaFile', command =
'AskAndCopyCurrentSceneToNewDirectory()' )
#Shows the window.
cmds.showWindow(mr_copyNewLocUI)
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Michiel Duvekot <[email protected]>wrote:
> // assuming you've selected a face
> sel = cmds.ls(sl=True)
> cmds.hyperShade( shaderNetworksSelectMaterialNodes=True )
> print "%s -> %s" % (sel[0], cmds.ls(sl=True)[0])
> cmds.select(sel, replace=True)
>
>
> On May 27, 2:23 pm, MaloW <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi, I'm working on creating an .obj-exporter as a part of a school
> > project using MEL, Python and PyMEL. I've got it working great, but
> > right now it can't export several materials for 1 object. My teacher
> > wasn't quite sure how to do this either but told me that I could ask
> > here.
> > How can I from a face, and not from the object, find out which
> > material is connected to it, so that I can export the materials per-
> > face and not per-object? I've tried looking at the documentation of
> > PyMEL as well as using dir() inside maya on a face, but I found
> > nothing that I thought could be of use.
> > Any help is appreciated, thanks.
>
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