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jaw312 · Posts: 14 Joined: 03 Oct 2006

Hey Phil,

I've lost hours of work several times during longer sessions via the Maya plug-in.

Either Maya hangs during the Send process or UV hangs and/or the Send seems to cause Maya to hang. And sometimes it works great.

Regardless there doesn't seem to be a way to save periodically while working via the plugin. Do I just keep hitting Send and stay in UVLayout? The usual Save and Tmp 1-5 buttons aren't there during plugin sessions.

Well...UVLayout has finally returned but Maya is still stuck. I know from past experience that if I close Maya and attempt to Send all is lost. Unless you know where send will go if Maya is closed.

I found recent uvl132.OUT and .KEEP files in a previous project but they don't import without crashing Maya.

Luckily your new revisions will make quick work of this model if I have to start over - really love the new internal straightening and packing tools.

Thanks
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jaw

headus · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject: Re: Maya Send Hang-Ups

" Do I just keep hitting Send and stay in UVLayout? "

Yes, that works. But I can see now where a fall-back position would be good if the plugin update breaks! I'll have a think about this ... maybe the usual Save and Tmp buttons should be there, or hidden away but available, in the event that Maya doesn't load the sent file.

I'm working on the v2.0 release at the moment so probably wont get to look at this until next week.

Phil

jaw312 · Posts: 14 Joined: 03 Oct 2006

headus · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:45 pm Post subject: Re: Maya Send Hang-Ups

"Are .OUT files always the result of the last Send?"

Yes. Not sure why Maya would be crashing, but maybe copy the OUT file,
give it an OBJ extension, then try loading that into Maya.

Phil

jaw312 · Posts: 14 Joined: 03 Oct 2006

headus · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject:

Which version of Maya are you using? It sounds like it doesn't like some of my OBJ
files somehow, and maybe thats why you're getting the lock-ups in the plugin transfers?

Phil

jaw312 · Posts: 14 Joined: 03 Oct 2006

Which version of Maya are you using?

Well...that gets a bit complicated 2 versions/machines/OSs/GPUs.

Send Hang problem in both:
Maya_8.5/XP-SP2/ATI_FireGL9000
Maya_8.5-SP1/Vista/Nvidia_G8800

Neither liked the renamed .OUT file in it's raw form without passing through DE first.
After DE it would import but crash as soon as I tried to manipulate anything.
DE also triangulated everything before I was ready to - hence the Maya ASCII route.
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jaw

headus · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:52 pm Post subject:

"Maya_8.5"

OK, I'll check that out sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Phil

headus · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:51 pm Post subject:

I still haven't had a chance to check the plugin under Maya 8.5 yet, but the latest update (see http://www.headus.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=454) doesn't hide the usual Load and Save buttons when UVLayout is run in plugin mode. This means that you'll have a chance to save your work is the transfer back to Maya fails.

Phil