[Maya-Python] Maya Sniffer - Visualise disk usage in your scene files

Marcus Ottosson

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Jan 9, 2021, 7:18:31 AM1/9/21

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Hi all,

I wrote this little program that I’d like to share; it’s based on years of never having any idea of what makes my scene files so large, making it take long to open, long to save and puts tears in the eyes of IT doing backups.

https://github.com/mottosso/maya-sniffer

This should be especially helpful when opening other-peoples-files, and even more so when working with references; those bastards can easily dump dense meshes into your locally saved file (if you e.g. put a deformer on it and mess with history), even though they only really should store deltas between an animated scene and original reference.

Enjoy!

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Marcus

bobrobertuma

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Jan 9, 2021, 7:27:11 AM1/9/21

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Great program! Thank you..

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Juan Moraga

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Jan 9, 2021, 7:30:31 AM1/9/21

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Thank you Marcus! This is such a great tool! I will test it out on Monday ;)

Have a great rest of your weekend

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vince touache

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Jan 9, 2021, 11:14:23 AM1/9/21

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Wicked! Thanks for sharing Marcus, I look forward to testing it on super complex scenes !

Marcus Ottosson

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Jan 9, 2021, 3:08:25 PM1/9/21

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I look forward to testing it on super complex scenes

Post a pic of what it looks like :)

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Carlos Rico Adega

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Jan 10, 2021, 10:15:59 AM1/10/21

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Sweet! Thanks Marcus. Looks very informative. Cheers.

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David Moulder

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Jan 11, 2021, 4:26:22 PM1/11/21

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Very cool Marcus. The data representation reminds me of Run Snake Run for python profiling. Well done. I'll definitely give it a go.

-Dave

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Roy Nieterau

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Jan 13, 2021, 7:56:45 AM1/13/21

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Loving how trivial this is but how elegantly it presents the biggest culprits of the file size. Something suitable for anyone non-techy to get a feeling for the biggest culprits.

vince touache

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Jan 20, 2021, 9:17:16 AM1/20/21

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https://ibb.co/khxKVjm

=D

Marcus Ottosson

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Jan 20, 2021, 11:00:06 AM1/20/21

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18 million characters is 14% of the file? Haha. How big is that file? If every character is 16-bytes, that would make it.. 18000000 / 14 * 100 * 16 / 1024 / 1024 = 2GB?

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