Re: [Maya2osg-users] osgpreview, UI and flags

[Javier T. <jav...@gm...>]

  Hi Peter,

  I found some errors when trying to select the files with custom GLSL
code from the browser:

// Error: Object 'maya2osgUI_vertDeclareFile' not found.
// Error: Object 'maya2osgUI_vertComputeFile' not found.
// Error: Object 'maya2osgUI_fragDeclareFile' not found.
// Error: Object 'maya2osgUI_fragComputeFile' not found.

  I like how is being organized the UI. I think it is much cleaner and
easy to use. Great work!


On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Peter Wrobel <pp...@cg...> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> answering to my own post, as most of the stuff is implemented.
>> I would like to add an optionMenu to the preview command textfield,
>> which changes the behavior of the command field, with these options:
>>
>> Mel:
>> current behaviour
>>
>> Pyth:
>> corresponding Python script
>
> not done, don`t know if required at all, will implement on request.
>
>> Exec:
>> which would take an os command ( like "osgviewer --flags file" ) without
>> the need of "exec" infront of it
>>
>> Flag:
>> this would call osgpreview with flags entered inside the textfield,
>> overriding those hardcoded in the export script
>>
>> Edit: ( maybe )
>> this would pop up a bigger window for editing text, in the case one of
>> the above needs more space
>
> Same as "Pyth"
>
> Javier, you might want to test the behavior of the new options.  Have
> one suggestion to the preview command, that one should be able to pass
> the count of lights as argument. This would enable GL_Lights up to 8 or
> turn off GL_Lighting, if no light is present in the test scen. Silly me,
> was searching quite long for an error, because I couldn't see my content
> in the preview window. But I just had no Lights created. So with passing
> 0 lights to the preview command would eliminte such an issue.

  The scene lighting set and some other issues are on my to-do list.
I'll address it as soon as I have time. I suppose that I will add an
export option to set whether we are exporting a model or a whole scene
(see the Global Uniforms section in
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/maya2osg/index.php?title=Shading_Networks#Global_uniforms).

  An additional option would be to include a default lighting set when
previewing. I think that with these two options we solve the lighting
problem.

> For the preview command I'm suggesting one more shelf Button, which does
> the preview based on the settings in the Export Window ( without it
> being opened of course ). The other preview shelf button should still
> have default behavior.
> What do you think ?

  It is OK for me.

  By the way. Talking about adding new shelf buttons... It would be
really nice if anybody with some artistic skills (that excludes me
absolutely) offers to create a cool set of icons  :D

> The preview command an pre/post export mel have annotations that explain
> the usage of Variables, but you need to turn on Maya Options - Interface
> - Help - Popup Help - Tooltips. Think I should activate it when opening
> the UI, and restore window clos. Will do later.

  I can see the tooltips with current version (revision 204).

> The Maya Export All / Selection Options Script has a Bug when cahnging
> the export file type, couldn't fix this, is on todo list.
>
> Polygon Options and Polygon and Export UI Wiki is the next, then,
> finally, skining.

  Great!


-- 
Javier Taibo