modo command line arguments?

[StephanD]

Someone's a command-line addict methinks heh?

Sure you can :)


According Modo is in your PATH and file.lwo's location is in there too just type;

modo file.lwo


I suggest you put your working directory in you path too.


Hope this helps

-Steff

[blender]

thanks for the reply StephanD..

i was a bit careless in posting this before i exhausted all my options.
i ended up figuring it out afterall.

i am a Maya user, and still feel very comfortable with Maya's modeling tools.. so i wanted to write a quick mel script to throw a poly mesh into modo, quickly edit it, and immediately bring it back into Maya to continue working. That required some command line calls to modo.

all i had to do was set Modo to be the default program to open all the .obj files.

here's the script if anyone is interested in using it. it's not super elegant or anything, and still has a bug or two.. but it does the job for my workflow.

to use it. while working in Maya, select a poly object, run the script, it'll pop the object into Modo, edit the object, hit Save, close Modo, and hit the Yes button on the dialog window in Maya to bring the object back.

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{

string $exportPath = (`workspace -q -fullName` + "/MODO");
string $fullExportPath = $exportPath + "/tempFromMaya.obj";
string $selectedObjects[] = `ls -sl`;

if (!`filetest -d $exportPath`)
sysFile -md $exportPath;

if (`filetest -w $exportPath`)
sysFile -del $fullExportPath;

file -op "groups=1;ptgroups=1;materials=0;smoothing=0;normals=1" -typ "OBJexport" -es $fullExportPath;
system $fullExportPath;

if (`confirmDialog -title "bring back" -message "Bring mesh back?"
-button "Yes"
-button "No"
-defaultButton "Yes"
-cancelButton "No"
-dismissString "No"` == "Yes")
{

for ($each in $selectedObjects)
delete $each;

file -import -type "OBJ" -rdn -rpr "tempFromMaya" -options "mo=1" -pr $fullExportPath;

for ($each in $selectedObjects)
{
select $each;
sets -e -forceElement initialShadingGroup;
polySoftEdge -a 0 -ch 1 `ls -sl`;
polySetToFaceNormal -setUserNormal ;
delete -ch `ls -sl`;
}


clear $selectedObjects;
select -cl;

}

}

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cheers

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