I'm following this topic with interest. I'm doing an ugly workaround by creating a pre-defined set of folders, but ideally I'd like to solve this the "nice" way.
// Fredrik On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Marcus Ottosson <konstrukt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Justin, > > That would make a lot of sense, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work. > It does create the workspace.mel file but with the following content: > > //Maya 2015 Project Definition > > workspace -bw "default"; > > Which effectively silences the “Create new workspace” dialog from the UI, > but doesn’t provide the default hierarchy of folders that I’m looking for - > mainly the “scenes” directory, so that when the user hit “Save” he’d be > taken to it and not to the root of the workspace. Here is some of the > definitions I’m looking to have it create. > > //Maya 2015 Project Definition > > workspace -bw "default"; > workspace -fr "images" "images"; > workspace -fr "scripts" "scripts"; > workspace -fr "mayaAscii" "scenes"; > workspace -fr "mayaBinary" "scenes"; > workspace -fr "scene" "scenes"; > workspace -fr "sourceImages" "sourceimages"; > > Although ideally it’d create whatever defaults there is, as is the case > when creating it via the UI. > > I should re-iterate, that “defaults” is the keyword here. I could of > course put these commands in and create the hierarchy myself via > os.makedirs, but that isn’t what I’m looking for here. > > > > On 7 July 2014 03:10, Justin Israel <justinisr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey Marcus, >> >> You just want it to create the workspace.mel file that it creates for you >> when you set a new project from the UI? >> >> If so, this seems to work for me: >> >> import osimport maya.cmds as cmds >> >> root = "~/tmp" >> name = "maya_test" >> >> fullpath = os.path.expanduser(os.path.join(root, name)) >> if not os.path.exists(fullpath): >> os.makedirs(fullpath) >> cmds.workspace(fullpath, n=True) >> cmds.workspace(fullpath, o=True) >> cmds.workspace(fullpath, s=True) >> >> >> I assume directory creation is part of the Project Manager or other >> operations that intend to use the directories resolved relative to the >> workspace root. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:03 AM, Marcus Ottosson <konstrukt...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey, >>> >>> I’m doing this: >>> >>> $ maya -proj /my/new/project/dir >>> >>> But noticed that Maya isn’t creating the default project definition it >>> otherwise would if I instead launched Maya and went with File->Set Project >>> upon which it asks if you’d like to create one. >>> >>> Is there a better way of starting up Maya to default into a workspace >>> than the command-line flag? Alternatively, is there a command to establish >>> a project definition or otherwise ensure that one exists? >>> >>> I’ve dabbed my fingers in cmds.workspace, which has the newWorkspace >>> argument, but with no luck. I had a look at the only command spit out by >>> Maya upon clicking the “Create Default Workspace” button when setting a new >>> project, np_getPrimaryProjectFileRules but that seems more a >>> post-script as it merely queries the already existing definitions. >>> >>> The end result I’m looking for is a Maya directory with the expected >>> directories set up, so that when saving for the first time it brings you to >>> the /scenes directory. >>> >>> Best, >>> Marcus >>> >>> -- >>> *Marcus Ottosson* >>> konstrukt...@gmail.com >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmOBtNu_QUrBHhLrsk_NrH_7JfFC3NLcZHN5q_w%2B87C8%3DgA%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmOBtNu_QUrBHhLrsk_NrH_7JfFC3NLcZHN5q_w%2B87C8%3DgA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA3XWXcG64zVJwrdbZgUVPOmkNDAFf7MAABvMOQE22tVLQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA3XWXcG64zVJwrdbZgUVPOmkNDAFf7MAABvMOQE22tVLQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > *Marcus Ottosson* > konstrukt...@gmail.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to python_inside_maya+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmOCqUZVXikdtyJzGhHKD1oB0ubsDGD0nWVyjp9-VKsz1NQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmOCqUZVXikdtyJzGhHKD1oB0ubsDGD0nWVyjp9-VKsz1NQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. 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