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How do we execute a script every time any scene file is opened?
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I started coding in 2008 and wrote some scripts but later by 2009 I got job as vfx artist so got out of touch since I never dig into MEL, now I had to do some update to have it working with the Maya latest version or at least with 2011 ,
can anyone tell me how do I execute a script every time any scene file is opened ?

any help would be greatly appreciated…


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  • ldunham1
  • Posted: 26 July 2012 10:37 AM

afaik best bet for this could be a scriptJob…
userSetup’s would only execute on application startup.

http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2011help/CommandsPython/scriptJob.html

using an event-driven trigger (sceneOpened), should be fine as long as you keep on top of it logging the scriptJob id.


try pressing 'b'…
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yes I had a look at it earlier,

so i came up with this in the usersetup.mel

scriptJob -event SceneOpened "myTestProc";
 
 global proc myTestProc()
 {
 if ( `objExists "autoSetProj"` )
 {
 // Do nothing
 }
 else
 {
 string $nodeName = `scriptNode -st 1 -bs "source myProj.mel"  -n "autoSetProj"`; // inserts a script node caller to every scene file
 source "myProj.mel";
 }

  
 }

is their any other better way of doing it

Author: niceguysan
Replied: 26 July 2012 06:48 PM  
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depending on your variables, the script jobs ID is rather unpredictable and can be different each time it’s created

one approach I used was scriptJob -lj, then tokenized the results to find my custom scriptjob, this way if it did exist, I knew for sure, I find the ID’s become a little less usefull when you start to build auto-loading tools

but at the same time I was searching for multiple different scriptjobs


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