Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Justin Israel
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, 5:15 PM Christopher Evans wrote: The idea wasn't really to render anything, but to send multiple headless mayas 'tasks', do many people use these render management solutions to do something like batch export 4000 fbx files from 3000 maya files? I thought they were always ver

Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Christopher Evans
The idea wasn't really to render anything, but to send multiple headless mayas 'tasks', do many people use these render management solutions to do something like batch export 4000 fbx files from 3000 maya files? I thought they were always very specific to rendering. I did try using pipe before, bu

Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Justin Israel
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:34 AM Christopher Evans wrote: > https://github.com/chrisevans3d/mayaTaskServer > > It's on github here, I am no master of python, I have written one of these > at a previous company, but I used RPYC for distributed computing and a > 'task finished' signal coupled with

Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Christopher Evans
https://github.com/chrisevans3d/mayaTaskServer It's on github here, I am no master of python, I have written one of these at a previous company, but I used RPYC for distributed computing and a 'task finished' signal coupled with a timeout to know when something crashed. I would now like to parse t

Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Justin Israel
On Fri, Jan 20, 2017, 6:33 AM Tony Barbieri wrote: > Previously I've used the communicate method on a Popen object to get the > output and currently I am using QtCore.QProcess with the > readyReadStandardOutput, readyReadStandardError signals to get the output > to display in Qt widgets. I'm usin

Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Tony Barbieri
Previously I've used the communicate method on a Popen object to get the output and currently I am using QtCore.QProcess with the readyReadStandardOutput, readyReadStandardError signals to get the output to display in Qt widgets. I'm using QtCore.QProcess in a situation similar to your's where I ha

Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Marcus Ottosson
Anyone have experience with getting feedback out of mayapy? Something like this? $ mayapy -c "import sys;sys.stdout.write('Hello world!')" Hello world! ​ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe f

Re: [Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-19 Thread Justin Israel
What kind of difficulty are you having? Could you be more specific about the problem? How are you attempting to capture stdout currently? Justin On Thu, Jan 19, 2017, 5:29 PM Christopher Evans wrote: > I am making a freely available maya task server. If you'd like to help > lemme know. Basicall

[Maya-Python] mayapy questions

2017-01-18 Thread Christopher Evans
I am making a freely available maya task server. If you'd like to help lemme know. Basically you send it maya files and tasks to run on them, like batching animations to FBX, validating files, publishing files, etc. Anyway, I have been having a difficult time getting the stdout of a mayapy launche