following your attempts at using cPickle in mb files which seems
interesting to me... Cant you just append a binary datablock with your
data at the end of the .mb file and just preprocess the file reading and
deleting that appended block of data before opening the file in Maya? If
you do it right you should leave de postprocessed file as the original
one exactly with same size. Using a fixed sized datablock big enough to
hold your metadata should be easier. As a drawback you should code your
own "file open.."
El 11/02/2018 a las 15:38, fruityfr...@gmail.com escribió:
I'd be curious to find something as well ! I had a quick look at it ages ago,
and couldn't find anything robust. If you're on Unix, you can attach infos
against a file (including a .mb), but that doesn't seem to exist on windows.
And I'd like to find something cross-platform
You can also write notes in maya, but then, as you said, you need to open the
file, and even in standalone mode, it can take some time..
However, I think the safest option would be to deal with separated config
files. As you say, one can 'break' the pipeline by moving the config file away
from its scene file, but I'd say it is acceptable... I mean if an animator
removes everything in the outliner, he can't complain the rig is broken ; if
someone starts messing around with files he doesn't know, pipeline can't be
responsible for that.
Still, by curiosity, I'd be curious to know if there is a way of storing infos
against an .mb file
Le vendredi 9 février 2018 18:08:05 UTC-5, AK Eric a écrit :
It would be of great use if I could (somehow) tag mb files with metadata that
could be read at system level, never having to open the mb itself in Maya.
I already have a solution that will save out a json/xml next to the file
whenever the users saves, with queryable info. But this is lossy, can decouple
from the file if it's ever moved, etc.
Being able to tag an actual mb with data would be great (in the same way you
can say, check exif data on an image).
I've tried some examples doing this in Python with pickle, on both ma & mb
files, but... it corrupts the files. Ironically, I can store and retrieve
metadata, it just wrecks everything else in the file :P
Maybe not possible. But I thought I'd see if someone actually had a more
elegant solution for this.
thanks
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