-cameraSetup(-cs)

[Gary Jaeger]

I'm trying to figure out how to playblast from the terminal. I've got it working, or at least I can generate a file, but it's just gray. So I'm guessing it has something to do with choosing a camera first, which you obviously do in the GUI by clicking. 

From the docs, this seemed promising:

-cameraSetup(-cs)

Information about camera setup. The first string defines a camera setup MEL procedure. The camera setup procedure will be invoked before executing a playblast. The second string argument which is used as a camera identifier and is appended to the root file name to specify the final output file name(s). The command will fail there is not a pair of strings supplied to the argument.

but.... It doesn't really help an idiot like me when I don't know what the camera setup MEL procedure is, and how it might be used. The supplied examples don't use -cs. Hmm. Anybody have any idea how this might be used? When it says the second string is a camera identifier, does it mean that the second string is the name of the camera? like 

playblast  -cs <string> shotCam -frame 8 -frame 3 -frame 2 -format image -viewer 1;

Is that right? and what is that first string?? argh. thanks anybody with any insights...

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[Fredrik Averpil]

Hi Gary,

Here's an old thread on the matter: https://www.mail-archive.com/python_in...@googlegroups.com/msg13076.html

Although being focused on Python, most people also know MEL quite well on this list. Join in if you wish: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/python_inside_maya

Regards,

Fredrik