Hi Jan, thank you for your insight. > "Dark Magic Power Moves"
If that's your manner to say "the hard way", thanks for the encouragements ! Adam On Sep 2, 9:59 pm, Jan Berger <[email protected]> wrote: > A short answer would be yes, you can do it and it gives a loooot of > possibilities, > but if you are talking abou a script in the context of a bunch of commands > being executed one after another, you should realize that with calling the API > you may run into undo/redo issues. > > I have done it in production but only to do really opportunistic stuff, > like copying mesh data around without creating tweaks etc. > and where creating a scripted or not plug-in would have caused > too much overhead. > > But I really like this combo of API and Python and can only > encouraged to go down > the path of "Dark Magic Power Moves" as I call it ; ) > > At 18:56 02.09.2011, you wrote: > > > > > > >More precisely, if there is a boundary between python scripting and > >API calls, how is it formalized ? > > >Thanks > > >Adam > > >On 2 sep, 18:52, wannAPI <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is a very basic question: > > > > Is it possible to make API calls from the command line, or should they > > > in general be considered apart from python scripts ? Aren't both of > > > the same nature ? > > > > This might sound odd but that's one of the conceptual point I'm > > > missing personally. > > >-- > >view archives:http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya > >change your subscription settings: > >http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe > > Jan Berger > [email protected] ::www.janberger.de - Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
