Re: [Maya2osg-users] Discussion of next changes

[Jean-Sébastien G. <jea...@cm...>]

Hi Peter,

> 1.) Collect Maya Shading Attributes as far as possible through the plug-in
> 2.) Add any ( un ) imaginable Attributes as Tags added as maya notes
> into osg::Node Descriptions

I actually don't really care *how* it's done. I just don't want the tags 
to be visible by the Maya user.

I spoke about notes before because I thought I preferred notes to custom 
attributes, it seemed more general to me. But anything that's added to 
notes will be visible to the artist, and I don't want that.

However, I think that the notes should be exported in osg::Node 
descriptions, yes. But that is a separate issue.

What I want, really, is:

1. collect Maya shading attributes (any way)
2. put the information in osg::Node descriptions (any way)
3. this information should not be visible to Maya users

So if the easiest way is to

a) make a script that does 1, then puts it in custom attributes
b) modify the plugin C++ code so it exports custom attributes as 
osg::Node descriptions

then that's what I'll do.

> @Javier, in the end I don't care as well, any string attribute should be
> as good as the notes field.

I really don't see them as mutually exclusive. If the artist / modeler 
has put some useful information in the Notes field, then it should be 
exported in the OSG file as osg::Node descriptions. Custom attributes, I 
don't know exactly what they are (perhaps I should have a quick read in 
the Maya help files) but if they're just strings attached to a node, 
then they should probably be exported as osg::Node descriptions too. An 
osg::Node can have any number of descriptions, so one can be the Notes 
if it was not empty, and then each custom string attribute can be an 
additional one (with a clear tag to identify which is which).

I'll try to do something (proof of concept) today so that we can stop 
talking about it and do something about it :-)

Thanks,

J-S
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