I recall someone on the AD side mention that the "Send To" mechanism
between Maya and Soft is not exposed and is essentially black-boxed.
-Tim
On 9/3/2015 8:34 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote:
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?
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*From:*[email protected]
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*Luc-Eric Rousseau
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2015 7:35 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*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]"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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?
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<mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of
*Eric Thivierge
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2015 5:34 PM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*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.
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On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G.
(LARC-E1A)[LITES] <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> 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?
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Of *Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2015 5:07 PM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*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
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