Maya command and complex argument

[Rémi Deletrain]

Hi everybody,

Is it possible to give to Maya complex command arguments like a MMatrixArray?

I am looking to make the equivalent of a bake in maya but without having the source. I only have matrix data in a file.

I have a solution that works in python but it is slow given the number of iteration.

[Michael Boon]

I don't understand. Do you mean launch Maya from the command line, with a lot of data as arguments to the call?

Command line calls are limited to 32k characters, I think, but you're still writing and reading all your matrix data as text, so I wouldn't expect it to be any faster.

Reading the data from a file using Python would be the best way to do it, I expect. If you're using the same data a lot of times you could read it once from a text file, then Pickle it into a binary file (or save it into a Maya binary), which would be a lot faster to read.

[Marcus Ottosson]

Now I also don't understand.

I thought he was referring to the Maya command *plug-in*, MPxCommand, and the argument it can get, MArgList which I think is limited to simple types like strings and floats.

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[Rémi Deletrain]

Thank you for your answers.

Yes I spoke to Maya MPxCommand.

I wanted to know if it was possible to return arguments more complex than int, bool, float and string.

Marcus a répondu à ma question.

for speed my process I must to change my workflow I think for works with MPxCommand.

[Michael Boon]

Now it makes sense to me :)

Sorry I don't have any answers though.

[Rémi Deletrain]

Too bad I'll do otherwise then. :)