https://github.com/danbradham/nbackgrounder

Cache nParticles and nCloth in a background process, freeing you up to continue using Maya while caching.
https://github.com/danbradham/nbackgrounder

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Cache nParticles and nCloth in a background process, freeing you up to continue using Maya while caching.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danbradham/nbackgrounder
• Owner: danbradham
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-07-01T22:21:16.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-12-11T14:38:32.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-10-20T19:11:14.426Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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nbackgrounder

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Cache nParticles and nCloth in a background process, freeing you up to continue using Maya while caching.

Command Line

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mayapy nbackgrounder.py -f "path\to\maya\file.mb" -d "path\to\cache\dir" -p "particle1" -p "particle2" -fr 100 200

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    usage: nbackgrounder.py [-h] -f FILEPATH -d CACHEDIR -p PARTICLES [-fr FRANGE FRANGE]

    Cache nParticle systems from your command line, freeing you up to continue

    working inside maya.

    optional arguments:

      -h, --help         show this help message and exit

      -f FILEPATH        Maya filename

      -d CACHEDIR        Cache Directory

      -p PARTICLES       Particles to cache, use more than one -p flag in order to

                         cache more than one particleShape

      -fr FRANGE FRANGE  Frame Range to cache

      -mesh              Create an alembic cache including all meshes attached to your -p particles

Maya nBackgrounder Utils

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Refresh your scenes cacheFile nodes using refresh_cache, allowing you to see more recently cached frames. This is a hack where we just toggle multiThread in the cacheFile node on and then off. For some reason this refreshes the cacheFile node.

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    import nbackgrounder.utils as nbutils

    nbutils.refresh_ncache()

Launch nBackgrounder shell scripts directly from maya using the convenient ShellScript context.

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    with nbutils.ShellScript() as shscript:

        nbutils.execute(shscript)

ShellScript accepts the following parameters:

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    mesh_only: Generate an alembic cache from all meshes attached to selected particles. (default: False)

    post_mesh: Generate an nParticle cache, then afterwards generate an alembic cache. (default: False)

    timeout: Time to leave shell window open after nBackgrounder is finished. (default: 10)