Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Tagging MB files with metadata

2018-02-11 Thread Ian Jones
Well if you like your MB and your current json/xml file solution but just want them tied together so they don't get disconnected you may want to consider just using a .zip to bind them. Uncompressed they can be very fast and you can access files directly (to query your metadata etc) without having

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Tagging MB files with metadata

2018-02-11 Thread AK Eric
Marcus: MA not an option, so no comment blocks, but thanks, good idea. However, I like your idea of just writing data to somewhere on the server that corresponds to the Maya file in question. That could be a legit answer. not tagging the file with metadata itself, but the data isn't living

[Maya-Python] Fwd: Us congress hearing of maan alsaan Money laundry قضية الكونغجرس لغسيل الأموال للمليادير معن الصانع

2018-02-11 Thread kareem M
YouTube videos of U.S. Congress money laundering hearing of Saudi Billionaire " Maan Al sanea" with *bank of America* and The owner of Saad Hospital and Schools in the Eastern Province in *Saudi Arabia* and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Awal Bank in *Bahrain*

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Tagging MB files with metadata

2018-02-11 Thread Juan Cristóbal Quesada
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

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Tagging MB files with metadata

2018-02-11 Thread Juan Cristóbal Quesada
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

Re: [Maya-Python] Re: Tagging MB files with metadata

2018-02-11 Thread Marcus Ottosson
If .ma is an option, then it supports comment blocks. // Comment here ... addAttr ... connectAttr.. A perhaps more common approach might be to store metadata relative an absolute path in a database. { "c:\path\to\some\file.mb": { "any": "data", "here": True }} Then you can query

[Maya-Python] Re: Tagging MB files with metadata

2018-02-11 Thread fruityfrank
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