Maya Exporter: Cannot export 2 objects with the same short name from different hierachies in worldspce

[katrin]

hi,

a bit surprised i cannot export 2 objects with the same short name from different hierachies

So i am selecting |group1|pSphere1 -root |group2|pSphere1 and get an error.

AbcExport -verbose -j "-fr 1 24 -worldSpace -root |group1|pSphere1 -root |group2|pSphere1 -file /bluesky/design/river/960_PIPELINEEXP/010/maya_data/010/cache/alembic/a.abc";

// 1 //

// Error: Alembic Exception encountered: OSchemaObject::OSchemaObject( OObject )

ERROR: EXCEPTION:

Already have an Object named: pSphere1 //

[Lucas Miller]

This is because -root |group1|pSphere1  means to make pSphere1 the root of your scene, |group1 will not be added to your scene.

So in this case you are trying to add two objects with the same name (pSphere1) as children of the root.

In Alembic the immediate children of any parent must have unique names.

Lucas

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[katrin]

hi,
this code is generated by the autodesk exporter.
Should i report it to them?

[Lucas Miller]

Nope, it's not a bug, it is erroring out as intended.

You could do -root |group1 -root |group2  and both of those spheres would export fine since they would no longer be siblings in the Alembic archive.

Lucas

[katrin]

hi,
OK, i just select sphere1 and sphere2 and use the export selected menu
in maya (world space option). I would expect the roots to be set s you describe below.
We have our own gui so we are not  going to hit this too much.

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