You can if you’re exporting to Alembic, it’s got a flag specifying which
part you’d like to be root, but likely not other formats.
You could also unparent things prior to export, maybe with a context
manager like this one.
import contextlibfrom maya import cmds
@contextlib.contextmanagerdef unparent(root):
"""Temporarily unparent `root`"""
parent = cmds.listRelatives(root, parent=True)
if parent:
cmds.parent(root, world=True)
yield
cmds.parent(root, parent)
You could use it like this.
with unparent(cmds.ls(sl=True)[0]):
cmds.file("c:/my/path.ma", exportSelected=True, type="mayaAscii")
And make it a meal-deal like this.
import contextlibfrom maya import cmds
@contextlib.contextmanagerdef unparent(root):
"""Temporarily unparent `root`"""
parent = cmds.listRelatives(root, parent=True)
if parent:
cmds.parent(root, world=True)
yield
cmds.parent(root, parent)
# Retrieve an output path
filters = "Maya Files (*.ma *.mb);;Maya ASCII (*.ma);;Maya Binary (*.mb)"
path = cmds.fileDialog2(fileFilter=filters,
dialogStyle=2, # Use Maya-style file dialog
fileMode=0) # Any file, whether it exists or not
# Perform export, without parenthoodif not path:
cmds.warning("Cancelled")else:
selection = cmds.ls(sl=True)[0]
file_type = {"ma": "mayaAscii", "mb": "mayaBinary"}[path[0].rsplit(".")[-1]]
with unparent(selection):
cmds.file(path[0], exportSelected=True, type=file_type)
On 19 October 2015 at 11:13, Macbeth R. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to export selected nodes only without a top parent group
> above them??
>
> For example if I have one top group/transform named ALL, then inside some
> other groups/transforms named FW and BG, and I only want to export BG and
> FG with all their children without getting the top group ALL in the
> resulting scene.
>
> Greetings.
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