- Scene management tools
- Maya File Browser (Modeless File Browser)
- Added Maya 2018 version
Scene Tools' MEL script
SCRIPT NAME:
craSceneTools.mel
DESCRIPTION:
The script provides tools with the following features:
- Modeless Maya File Browser
- Custom Open Scene Dialog ( thumbnails, playblast, scene note display
and referencing/importing options )
- Reload Current/Last Opened Scene
- Save Scene As... (avoids having to open the sometimes sluggish
Maya File Dialog)
- Export All/Selected... custom dialog
- Save Scene Version
- Current Scene Info Window
- Scene Thumbnails and Scene Note creation ( you can choose where to
store them. Relative to the current project root or relative to
the opened scene file path )
- Scene Info HUDS
- Create Shot Camera at persp position
- Playblast/Shot Window ( timeline popupMenu (RMB), window popupMenu (control+LMB),
if shotCamera exists it is used in the viewport by default )
- Create Scene Playblast
- View Scene Playblast
- Custom Reference File Editor (many features and remote editing,
commandPort 7777 must be available)
- Channel/Node Control ( lock / hide attributes, lock objects)
- Filter/Select Node Types
- Playback Options
- Setup Render Resolution
- Setup Working Units (Space, Time)
- Reload Scene Textures
- ChannelBox Scene Tools Buttons (doesn't work if you already have
your own buttons)
- Preferences saved in optionVars
- Autoload script at startup setup
Maya File Browser features:
- Access to Project folders ( images, sourceimages, playblasts, ... )
- Access to System folders ( desktop, drives, temp folder, ... )
- Access to some Scene Tools utils ( save scene version, reload scene,
scene info, playblast window, reference file editor )
- Create folders
- Create materials from image file(s). If you have some objects
seleted the last material created will be assigned to them.
- Delete files and empty folders
- Docked/Floating UI
- Execute python file name as function
- Favorite folders
- Horizontal/Vertical layout (paneLayout)
- Image Viewer
- Import Alembic files
- Import python modules (adds the path to the sys.path if needed)
- Import/Reference multiple files with or without namespaces
- Import wav file into scene and set to timeline audio
- Import OBJ sequences (select files and Left-Click --> Import as OBJ Sequence)
- Import textures to scene (create file nodes, psdFileTex nodes for Photoshop files)
- Open Image files in system viewer
- Open Video files in system viewer
- Open folder in system file explorer
- Preferences saved in optionVars ( persistent across Maya sessions )
- Recent files and projects
- Rename file ( <Alt + Double-Click> on a file or <Right-Click> and choose
'Rename file' from the menu
- Search current folder for files. Live and on-demand. When on-demand
you have to press the enter button to filter the file list. In Live mode
the file list is automatically filtered while typing (scriptJob running while in this mode)
- Select current opened scene
- Set project from main projects list
- Source mel scripts
- View image sequence ( internal (fcheck) and external (tested with
DJV Imaging on windows) ). Select an image file and
right-click --> View Sequence (option box for setting other viewer)
- View scene playblast
Change log:
Version: 2.4.1
Date: August 31, 2017
- Fixed Bug introduced by Maya 2018 support (Export All/Selected... tool and others)
- Minor UI tweaks
Please use the Feature Requests to give me ideas.
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