Maya To Indigo Video Tutorial #1: Installation

[dougal2]

I think you need to either install, or activate the objExport plugin.
Look in Window Menu -> Settings/Preferences -> Plug-in Manager.

look down the list to find objexport, and check Loaded and Autoload.

As for renderDirect, I'm currently looking at how to detect win/linux within Maya, and change the batch file output accordingly.

[CTZn]

I second Dougal on objExport plugin.

And in your last try paths were again unset. When editing settings, look in the upper right corner: there is a Presets button. Set your paths once for all and click Presets > Save Preset > give it a name. Later you can replace the factory settings with the one you saved, paths will be restored.

[dougal2]

better still is to edit mti_UserPrefs.mel to suit your needs.

[Phr0stByte]

You guys border on the saintly! Thanks!!! xml export nicely now and I can fire up indigo and render it! Now to actually learn Maya

If I ever hear someone again complain about Blender being complicated, I just may slap them after looking at Maya...

[CTZn]

Congrats guys !

I for one can provide general support in learning Maya, I'm going to create a dedicated thread.

[dougal2]

Cool, glad it's working!

I've posted a test version (revision 173) of MtI in the Maya forum, could you download and test it please?
It should detect that you're using linux and output a bash script instead of a windows batch file, and run it properly in the background.

I can foresee a problem if you're using wine, the script output needs to call wine and not indgo directly.

Also, I've assumed that gedit is available on most linux systems, can you test showXMLOnRender set to external and let me know if anything happens?

cheers.

[Phr0stByte]

dougal2
Hmmm.... You seem to be flying a bit over my head with the showXMLOnRender, but I will download it and give it a go...

[dougal2]

ok, sorry. I'll explain.
When you run Maya to Indigo, there's an Edit Settings button. click this (once or twice) until you see the Attribute Editor, showing "Extra Attributes".
Expand that section, and very close to the bottom is a setting mti_showXMLOnRender.
Try an export with it set to Internal and then External.
Let me know if these work - it should show the XMl scene file either in a window in Maya, or in an external text editor (hopefully, gedit, if you've got it installed).

[CTZn]

there's an Edit Settings button. click this (once or twice)

I think you can now safely press once only.

Here you'll find all in a mess, more or less; take the time to identify every Indigo-related feature exposed and you'll be pretty set

[dougal2]

there's an Edit Settings button. click this (once or twice)

I think you can now safely press once only.

nope. it alternates between the channel box and attribute editor. no big deal though.

[Phr0stByte]

dougal2
Oh, yes - this did work
It still wont start rendering directly though - it will just generate the xml and I have to start the render with: "nice -19 indigo /home/phr0stbyte/indigo_v1.0.4/untitled.xml"

This is no big deal though - same for the icons. still not showing, but the buttons work.

[dougal2]

do you get a .bat file in the scene's directory?
does its contents look correct?
something like:

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#!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/indigo
indigo -o path/to/file/render/image.png path/to/file/scene.xml

The problem actually, is that this file needs to call wine. I haven't set that up yet.

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#!/bin/bash
cd /path/to/indigo
wine indigo -o path/to/file/render/image.png path/to/file/scene.xml