link perspective camera to projection via MEL

[Ryan O'Phelan]

Hey guys,

Anyone know how to link a persp cam to a texture projection via MEL?

I have lots of textures that I will need to project through a camera, and I can't count on the camera name being the same later. 

linkProjToCamera seems to be the command, but it's not listed in the help docs. 

Thanks,

Ryan

[Tim Leydecker]

Hi guys,

is Maya officially supported by backburner and if yes,
how many mR renderlicenses does one get with a SLM license?

Is it worth setting up backburner for Maya?

It would be cool to at least have one back-up rendermanager
for the 3 3D Autodesk packages (Softimage, Maya, 3DS Max),
even if not with the utmost, advanced pooling features.

Cheers

tim

[ryan harrington]

Recently I had a similar confusion over procedures and
commands...Procedures call up scripts and don't give verbose feedback.
Michiel Duvekot showed me the "whatIs" query. It's a handy one:

whatIs linkProjToCamera;
// Result: Mel procedure found in: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2009/
scripts/AETemplates/AEprojectionTemplate.mel //

If your projection is set up before the names start changing your
connections should stay hooked up.

Cheers,
R

[Ryan O'Phelan]

Thanks for that. I forgot all about whatIs.
Problem is I can't pre-populate that field, and have to connect it on the fly. I'll look into the procedure though.

Ryan

[David Johnson]

I would do it by having a look at the connections in the hypershade, then with that knowlege do a little mel loop.

So, if you select all your projections and the cameraShape (which must come last) you could run this

{

string $sel[] = `ls -sl`;

int $n = size($sel);

for($i=0; $i<$n-1; $i++) connectAttr -f ($sel[$n] + ".message") ($sel[$i] + ".linkedCamera");

}

David

[Ryan O'Phelan]

I feel like I tried that, but I'll try it again.

R

[Ryan O'Phelan]

Oh, it does work! Thanks man! I guess I made an error in my script before. 

Ryan