Hi River, Out of interest why does your shading model have different naming to your animation model? At our studio when the rig is published for animation an alembic of the geometry from the rig is published too, this is what the LookDev and Lighting artists use for shading and ultimately gets the animated cache imported onto. This also means that the naming stays consistent throughout animation and lighting so you won't have these problems.
It seems to me you are trying to overcomplicate something which would be solved if the names were consistent or is there something else you need this data for? Neil -- 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/fb219e2d-d906-492d-b73f-0dae0cb80ed4%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
