Re: command port to XSI

Fri, 04 Sep 2015 15:13:01 -0700

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Someone I know had a bunch of scripts that wrote different dynamic functions to a single .py file (overwriting the file every time), and that fired a simple Autohotkey script that sent a hotkey to the last active XSI instance running a registered command which simply ran that same one file that contained different things written to it every time.

I don't know if it provided everything a commond port would, would that be easy to set-up?


On 09/03/15 10:37, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote:

Figures.

 

Is there a way to execute something similar to a Kill –SEGV from the old days then?

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tim Crowson
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 10:25 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: command port to XSI

 

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] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric Rousseau
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 7:35 PM
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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]> 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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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Thivierge
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 5:34 PM
To: [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]> 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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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES]
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2015 5:07 PM
To: [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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