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[Theodore]

Please post all help requests here, they are continually monitored.

[csven]

Appears that this doesn't work with Maya 5.01. Has anyone else tried? I'm using a simple geometric primitive for a test and getting this:

onSave "E:/_GLInterceptandPrint/test.kml" "";
// Result: 1 //
// Error: Invalid flag: -n //

[Theodore]

I made some changes and now it works somewhat in Maya 5.0. The progress bar does not show up and the compass can't be turned off - but all the model exporting features work exactly the same now.

Check it here
http://production.eyebeam.org/tools/maya2google

[csven]

Excellent. I was just getting ready to give the script a looking over to see if I could determine the problem.

Many thanks.

[csven]

Beauty. See my post for some info and screenshots: http://blog.rebang.com/?p=676

[Theodore]

Cheers for the post man!!!

Glad you are getting some use out of it.
Please keep me updated on your work

All the best
Theo

[Bill Brody]

I want to export the colors on the surface of an object from Maya into Google Earth. I beleive I can  modify the mel so I average vetrtex colors into a facet color for a vertex painted object in Maya.  Near as I can tell kml only supports facet colors. I'd like use an average of the 3 vertex colors found by:
vector $r;
$r =`polyColorPerVertex -q -r -g -b Mesh.vtx[$i]`;
Does this make sense? Is there an easier way?

[Theodore]

it should work - the only thing is that we are grabbing the color of the face and then setting it and then accessing the vtxs afterwards in a loop so you probably will have to make sure that you are looking at the vtxs in a new loop before the colors gets written for that face.

please let me know how it goes - the guy who did the face color code for the plugin is going to check it out too.

[Bill Brody]

I did exactly as you suggested and I get just wghat I expected, BUT I get <outline>1<outline> when I want and I think specify <outline>0<outline>.

I could use a bit of help with this part.
here is the section I changed//change color stuff from facet shader query to vertex color query       
        // Color Stuff   
        string $faceShader = `getFacetShader $face`;
        fprint $fileId "<Placemark>";
        string $style;
//        string $defaultShader = ("<Style><PolyStyle><color>" + $matHexColor + "</color></PolyStyle><LineStyle><color>" + $lineHexColor + "</color><width>1</width></LineStyle></Style>");
        string $defaultShader = ("<Style><PolyStyle><color>" + $matHexColor + "</color><fill>1</fill><outline>" + "0" + "</outline></PolyStyle></Style>");
        if ($faceShader != "none") {
            $matHexColor =`materialToHexString $faceShader`;
//            $style = ("<Style><PolyStyle><color>" + $matHexColor + "</color><fill>1</fill><outline>0</outline></PolyStyle><LineStyle><color>" + $lineHexColor + "</color><width>1</width></LineStyle></Style>");
            $style = ("<Style><PolyStyle><color>" + $matHexColor + "</color><fill>1</fill><outline>" + "0" + "</outline></PolyStyle></Style>");
           
        } else {         
        $ss=`size $tokens`;
        int $num = 0;
        float $r=0,$g=0,$b=0,$a=0,$c[4];
        for( $j = 2; $j < $ss; $j++)
            {
            $num ++;
            string $vtx = ($input_OBJ+".vtx["+int($tokens[$j])+"]");
            $c=`polyColorPerVertex -q -r -g -b -a $vtx`;
            $r+=$c[0];$g+=$c[1];$b+=$c[2];$a+=$c[3];
            }
        $r/=$num;$g/=$num;$b/=$num;$a/=$num;
        $matHexColor = argb2hex($a, $r, $g, $b);
        $style = ("<Style><PolyStyle><color>" + $matHexColor + "</color><fill>" +"1" + "</fill><outline>" + "0" + "</outline></PolyStyle></Style>");
        fprint $fileId $style;
        }