It is good to know that there is at least one sensible person in close proximity of Maya development :)
Morten > Den 30. august 2017 klokken 17:28 skrev Luc-Eric Rousseau > <luceri...@gmail.com>: > > > ok, I'll have someone take a look. thanks > > On 30 August 2017 at 10:18, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES II] > <j.ponthi...@nasa.gov> wrote: > > No, unfortunately I'm not confused about this. > > > > If you build a scene, save that scene, there is no lingering copy clipboard > > file still resident in the temp directory, and you never hit CTRL-C, > > hitting CTRL-V while in the Outliner rereads the same exact scene you are > > currently in, and had just saved, back into itself. > > > > It then begins telling me with via the progress bar, that the scene I had > > just saved, in my particular case with all 40,000+ objects, is now being > > read into the working scene. > > > > Which means my scene now has two iterations of itself present in the scene > > after it is finished. > > > > The repro steps for this are here: > > > > https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-forum/ctrl-v-reads-a-copy-of-the-scene-into-itself/m-p/7329534#M46237 > > > > The point of this "feature" was apparently to facilitate the copying of > > objects across independent Maya sessions. But the cutCopyPaste.mel appears > > to be caching the current scene name and decides to use that instead if > > copy has never been executed prior to the paste or if no clipboard file is > > available and found. It just summarily, and without warning, proceeds to > > "paste" the saved scene back into itself. > > > > The upshot is that CTRL-V assumes an input that was never given it by the > > user. > > > > I'm not sure why in the world I would ever want it to do that when I can > > use "import" to explicitly re-read the scene, or explicitly perform a > > copy&paste on the active scene hierarchy, to accomplish the same result. > > > > Instead it is an uncalled for action that has the potential to cause severe > > loss of data. Which is what happened in my case, because when I went to > > delete the 40,000+ extra copies that I did not need, it was still trying to > > delete them a day later. > > > > Joey > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com > > [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Luc-Eric > > Rousseau > > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 9:51 AM > > To: Official Softimage Users Mailing List. > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list > > <softimage@listproc.autodesk.com> > > Subject: Re: What were they thinking.... > > > >> Ctrl-V executes a scene read, of the currently saved scene into the > >> existing scene This happens if you are in the outliner > >> Its basically the equivalent of import scene > > > > I think you're confused about this one. Ctrl+V is just the "paste" > > command and the clipboard is implemented by saving objects when you press > > ctrl+C, and later importing objects on paste from a temp scene. > > Exactly the same as it is XSI. The only thing new here is that a progress > > bar was added to the outliner to show progress when there is a massive > > number of nodes added, and the log window will say something "scene read in > > 1s" or something, which may be confusing you. > > ------ > > Softimage Mailing List. > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > ------ > > Softimage Mailing List. > > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with > "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.
