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Kheng

Kheng
Posted: 18 August 2009 05:18 AM

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Joined: 22 August 2006 10:59 AM

I’m trying to write a batch exporter for maya to fbx. I know mel has this command for FBXExport -f filename.fbx but when trying to access it in python like this

import maya.cmds as cmds

cmds.FBXExport( f=’this.fbx’ )

It doesn’t work. Does anyone know why?

Thanks,

Keo

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sublist

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Posted: 18 August 2009 10:22 PM

Location: Germany
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As far as i know Python hasn’t implemented fbxexport so far
So you have to use eval.

import maya.mel as mel

mel.eval("FBXExport -f [filename]")

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ahhh, thx! Didn’t know about eval.

Author: Kheng

Replied: 19 August 2009 05:57 PM