So no command Port like Maya? So when Maya “sends” scene data to Softimage and creates a connection to Softimage, how is it doing that?
-- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 7:35 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: RE: command port to XSI The c# sample in the sdk is what creates the server that listens to a socket. There is no command port feature xsi otherwise Le 2015-09-02 18:31, "Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]" <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov<mailto:j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>> a écrit : Eric, Thanks. I found the files but can’t really tell if I am supposed to run the server in order to make the client work. And I don’t have Python installed anyway. Had no luck converting the Perl script to something that XSI can understand. My guess is that XSI is not receiving input. In Maya you have to turn the TCP port on via a preference or env variable before you can use it. But I can’t find anything of that equivalent in XSI. Barring these attempts, I need to save a scene that has locked up at render. Any advice how I can get it to quit and save on exit? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 5:34 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: Re: command port to XSI There is a sample Python one in the SDK example workgroup. It's not a straight forward process and the one time I was working on a team to do this it was quite convoluted to get it working as desired. Eric T. -------------------------------------------- Eric Thivierge http://www.ethivierge.com On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov<mailto:j.ponthi...@nasa.gov>> wrote: Maybe this will help. I am looking to do something like this. This was a Perl script run in DOS. use Socket; $hostName = "localhost"; $portNumber = 8000; #CREATE SOCKET CONNECTION TO MAYA $proto = getprotobyname('tcp'); socket(Socket_Handle, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto); $port = getservbyname('smtp', 'tcp'); $sin = sockaddr_in($portNumber,inet_aton($hostName)); connect(Socket_Handle,$sin); $savedir = "E:/MAYA_Emergency_Save/"; print "Attempting to save MAYA file to directory ${savedir}\n"; $command = "string \$mySceneName = basename(\`file -q -sn\`, \"\"); string \$mySavNam = \"$savedir\" + \$mySceneName; file -rename \$mySavNam; file -save -type \"mayaAscii\";\n"; send(Socket_Handle, $command, $sin); #send the command to Maya sleep 1; #wait a second for things to catch up exit 1; #insure exit Can this be done with XSI? Has anyone tried? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 5:07 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> Subject: command port to XSI A long time ago I managed to write a command line port tool for Maya using the backend port that it provides. The tool was written in Perl and in general once a connection was made I could send MEL commands to the software via a “command line” prompt via a windows terminal. I used this often with Maya to take control of the software in case of a lock up etc and to send move data to it. I thought I had created the same for XSI, again a really long time ago, but can’t seem to find it. XSI should be able to do this since it appears to communicate with Maya via a port connection. Does anyone know if this is still possible? If so do you have any examples how it would be done for XSI? Thanks -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) MYMIC Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __________________________________________________ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party.
