cache multiple objects at once with cmds.cacheFile

[Kyle Burris]

I'm trying to geo cach a bunch of objects simultaneously with the cachFile command. Through the UI you can select multiple objects and run geometryCache -> exportCache and maya will go through the timeline once and write your cache according to your options. However in python the closest I can get is to use the points flag to cache a single object. I've tried digging through the mel scripts that the UI calls but I'm still stumped.


Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kyle

[Kyle Burris]

It took a while but I managed to figure it out. You have to use the points flag for each object you want to cache, but since python doesn't support using a flag more than once I just ended up generating a mel command and pushed it through mel.eval(), This is essentially what the maya mel scripts are doing under the hood

[Justin Israel]

On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 3:04 AM Kyle Burris <kyleb...@gmail.com> wrote:

It took a while but I managed to figure it out. You have to use the points flag for each object you want to cache, but since python doesn't support using a flag more than once I just ended up generating a mel command and pushed it through mel.eval(), This is essentially what the maya mel scripts are doing under the hood

If the Mel command accepts multiple points flags, have you tried passing the python version a list to the single flag? Just wondering if if they made it work like that or not. 

On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 5:10:56 PM UTC-4, Kyle Burris wrote:

I'm trying to geo cach a bunch of objects simultaneously with the cachFile command. Through the UI you can select multiple objects and run geometryCache -> exportCache and maya will go through the timeline once and write your cache according to your options. However in python the closest I can get is to use the points flag to cache a single object. I've tried digging through the mel scripts that the UI calls but I'm still stumped.


Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kyle

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[Kyle Burris]

I don't think they did, but I scraped the mayaCache code and went with Alembic, much much easier

On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 3:59:50 PM UTC-4, Justin Israel wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jun 2016 3:04 AM Kyle Burris <kyleb...@gmail.com> wrote:

It took a while but I managed to figure it out. You have to use the points flag for each object you want to cache, but since python doesn't support using a flag more than once I just ended up generating a mel command and pushed it through mel.eval(), This is essentially what the maya mel scripts are doing under the hood

If the Mel command accepts multiple points flags, have you tried passing the python version a list to the single flag? Just wondering if if they made it work like that or not. 

On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 5:10:56 PM UTC-4, Kyle Burris wrote:

I'm trying to geo cach a bunch of objects simultaneously with the cachFile command. Through the UI you can select multiple objects and run geometryCache -> exportCache and maya will go through the timeline once and write your cache according to your options. However in python the closest I can get is to use the points flag to cache a single object. I've tried digging through the mel scripts that the UI calls but I'm still stumped.


Any ideas?

Thanks,
Kyle

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