headus 3D tools

[cgbeige]

I have this odd problem that comes back every once in a while. I will hit Send to UV Layout from Maya 2009 and the mesh will simply be duplicated and then there will be an error like this:

// Error: No object matches name: uvlayout_EARTHQUAKE8:polySurface1 //

any ideas how to avoid this?

[headus]

The plugin makes a copy of the selected objects before sending them to UVLayout, so that's why you're getting the duplicate, but something is being messed up with the names, so the copy doesn't get deleted and the rest of the script fails.

Maybe its something to do with your scene structure? Next time it happens, can you save out the scene, zip it up and email it to me?

Thanks,

Phil

[cgbeige]

I suspect it might be because the name already has headus or whatever in it - I'll try a few tests out.

[headus]

Thanks! I'm travelling at the moment, and didn't bring my Maya dongle with me, so cant do any testing myself until next week.

Phil

[cgbeige]

ok - I found the source of the problem. When Maya imports pasted meshes, appends the project name and a colon before the object and when UV layout tries to send the file, it chokes because OS X doesn't like colons in filenames (they are used instead of / or
\ on the Mac). The fix is easy – just rename the object and remove the colon – but I think that most people won't know this workaround so I suggest adding a check to the object name and making colons underscores or something if possible.

[headus]

Excellent debugging! Thanks for finding that, and I probably wouldn't have myself because I'd have been using the Windows version of Maya to try and duplicate the problem.

I'll update the script once I get back to the office.

Phil

[cgbeige]

well I beta test for Autodesk and Adobe so I'm a trouble-shooting ninja. if you ever need a beta tester, I'd be in for a free Pro license

[DragoCG]

This is the same problem I just posted about an hour ago, but it's happening to me on a pc and I don't have any strange naming structures. The objs are objects I imported after export from Mudbox, but not sure if that would change anything.