Re: [Maya2osg-users] Transform nodes

[Peter W. <pp...@cg...>]

Hi guys,

I have worked on the config system to simplify adding arguments ( 
currently only boolean ). Its one step towards simplifying UI creation 
as well.

J-S, if you could wait till wednesday, I plan to add a wiki for UI 
creation. But basically all you have to do is adding only two commands 
at two places in the maya2osg_export.mel script.
One is around line 180 where you need to add the argument you want to 
export to the export command.
The other one is for the UI,
buildCheckBox( "argument"    , "Label"    , "extraLabel" ) ; ( e.g. lin 
607 )
but I will change this till wednsday into another command name, and add 
some similar commands.

and you just need to place it there where it into the Frame where you 
want to have it.
The command buildFrameLayout builds ... well ... a frameLayout with 
name. I created an Optimize Frame, where you can place additional flags, 
I added
buildCheckBox( "flattenStaticTransform"    , "Flatten Static XForm"    , 
"" ) ;

To be able to add this flag to the config.cpp, you need to initialize it 
in the bool map, and that's all. I've done this at line 74.

This should be already simpler. I'll explain in detail on the wiki.

Cheers, PP

> Hi Javier,
>
>>     Yes, I think that exposing the Optimizer flags to the export GUI and
>> apply it after exporting is a great idea. Maybe we can make an
>> "Optimizer" section in the GUI instead of adding it to the geometry
>> section.
> Agreed. I'll try to work on this next week. I'll probably come running
> with questions about how to expose things in the GUI and save them in
> Maya, because I looked at the code before and it gave me headaches :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> J-S