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[mokosan]

Hi, on occasion, UVLayout doesnt send the update information back to Maya.
I think I recall it not even updating when overwriting an .obj but that was a while ago.

Because this is a random thing, what would you suggest doing?
I have suggested saving a .uvl file, then exiting UVLayout, then launching it again from Maya, open the saved .uvl file then sending back to Maya.
I also suggested saving an .obj and that has worked recently but it is not ideal.


Any ideas?

M

[headus]

There's 2 parts to the "send to maya" process, and its not clear from your description which of those could be failing ...

1) When you click the "Send" button in UVLayout, it should write the mesh and UVs out to a temporary OBJ file (will have a ".out" extension) in the "uvlayout" folder in your maya project area. In those cases where the Send fails, can you see this file being created? If it *is* there, then the bugs not in UVLayout but in the mel script ...

2) So the second part is where Maya is supposed to load the temporary OBJ file that UVLayout just wrote. A scriptJob is created that should be checking for the temporary file ...

scriptJob -cf "busy" uvlayout_load

So that says "when not busy, run the load command". I'm wondering if maybe you have other script jobs running because of other plugins or whatever, and your maya isn't idle at these times when the load fails?

Next time the send fails, run the uvlayout_load command manually from the maya command shell and see what happens. If that fixes it, then you have your neater work-around! I remember before adding that idle timer thing I had a hotkey mapped to run the load command.

Phil