A milestone in creating expressions in my own maya script editor, along with previous features of splitting and deleting panes. Oh yeah and it will transfer your current scripting tabs over to the script editor.
In other news on coding this, I've been looking into the logging library and creating debug messages using those, which I found pretty funky as I can turn them on or off by setting the severity limit.
I've been testing debugging Maya Python scripts lately. Mostly focusing on free IDEs or editors such as PyCharm. So far this is one requires less setup in my opinion. This is mostly based off the remote python debugging functionality described here : Download and install Microsoft's free Visual Studio Code Install the official Python Extension Download ptvsd package as a zip Extract the ptvsd folder into your Maya scripts folder Open Maya and run (updated! Thanks Luciana !) import ptvsd ptvsd.enable_attach( address =( '0.0.0.0' , 3000 ), redirect_output = True ) Back in VSC, switch to Attach (remote debug) in the debug configurations and start it The editor should now look something like this You are now ready to debug. Note: here is the settings I use in launch.json Add break points, run your code and it should stop and populate the debug section of Visual Studio code when it hits a break point...
I've been looking more into Shotgun software for our production recently, setting up assets, task templates, shots and experimenting with other customisation features for pages to get a feel for the software more. From what I experienced so far, this is a very flexible system, very customisable hence some other people have no clue on how to set things up. Created a task template for helping quickly populating production assets list It is centred around assets, which can only be created by the manager account, which can have various files and attributes assigned to it and from that, it can be linked to other production elements such as shots, schedules and the review system within Shotgun. Populating assets and shots in Shotgun, yet to associate them with each other Currently, both the artist and manager accounts cannot setup Shotgun Desktop app meaning at the moment, Shotgun used more in a sense as a web-app rather than a full integrated system for production....
Been rendering the Maya ramp shader using Vray for the lighting and rendering test for major project animation. May be considering using other renderers as so far I feel Vray is not really designed for non-photorealistic rendering.e.g. the edge cut off is still softer than I wanted it to be. I tried to imitate this render setup but in Maya but have been unsuccessful so far, the VRay materials does not seem to map the colours correctly on the lightMtl or the geometry shadow color and fall off does not get affected at all by the ramp shader. One of the first tests piping outColor of ramp to VRay materials I may investigate further into geometry shadow falloff in VRay shaders later on but we'll see how others go.
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