Hi Alan, The point of the message attribute is to make connections between nodes that are purely symbolic. Data does not flow through message attributes -- in either direction -- so there is no chance of a connection made with a message attribute causing errors with Maya's DG evaluation. These connections are useful to custom processes which need to know the relationships between nodes.
— Sent from Mailbox On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Alan Fregtman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm sure there's a great answer for this but I can't seem to find it. > Everything I've read seems to say that the "message" attribute does > nothing, that it's kind of a dummy connection. > Is that so? What is the point of it? To have something you can read > connections from later? Or something deeper? I'm curious to know. > Cheers, > -- Alan > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAN%3DPNLEDn5HUVZS02CN%3DkHrO%3Dh9FRHcxuXbH0KzndG51wOzodg%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/1427297960902.c95686e2%40Nodemailer. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
