A bit late to reply maybe, but i've started using a kBeforeReferenceCheck for stuff like this (changing what path a scene references based on certain rules). There's an example in the docs where the path is replaced before the reference is loaded: http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2013/en_us/index.html?url=files/GUID-7F9305BF-5515-49DC-900B-61268611F8B1.htm,topicNumber=d30e125518 Luke
On Friday, October 26, 2012 11:32:36 PM UTC+1, matt wrote: > > nope, scratch that, it still triggers an errror with the selectivepreload > option enabled if it can't find the scene. what a silly design. > > sorry. > > > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Matt Estela <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Re the mb issue, we have a command line mb2ma utility at work for this >> sort of thing. The RnD folk implied it was a trivial tool to implement, >> but I have no idea if that was done using the API, or derived from the >> MayaMan code at Animal Logic. I can ask. >> >> Re the core issue, I know I've used an option on the file->load dialog to >> enable a selective reference load GUI. Not in front of maya right now, but >> I'm sure I've used this to fix the problem you describe. Ie, load the >> scene, tell it to load NO references, then try and fix the refrrence within >> maya, or at the very least save a .ma that can be hacked. >> >> Unfortunately it sounds suspiciously like the loadreferencedepth call you >> mentioned, which implies it might not be able to be controlled via code. >> Will take a look when I can. >> >> >> On Saturday, October 27, 2012, Paul Molodowitch wrote: >> >>> I've had success find/replacing reference names in the ascii text files, >>>> but haven't tried to fix this through Maya itself. >>>> >>> >>> Unfortunate, in our particular case, the scenes are saved as an binary >>> .mb. I COULD still try to do string replacement searching in the binary >>> file, but I highly this likely be a bad idea: who knows if/where it would >>> have stored memory offsets, table sizes, boundary-padding, etc that would >>> have to be adjusted.. >>> >>> - Paul >>> >>> -- >>> view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya >>> change your subscription settings: >>> http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe >>> >> > -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
