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sisqosnew
02-01-2011, 07:06 AM
Hello, everyone.
(Q)What is the current option name of miDefaultOptions.AmbientOcclusion?
I used MEL to set renderGlobal for rendering, but I can't use this mel to set attribute:

setAttr "miDefaultOptions.ambientOcclusion" 1;
//1 means Turn On

the mel will get an error:
// Error: No object matches name: miDefaultOptions.ambientOcclusion //

"Ambient Occlusion" option is in Features of renderGlobal.

Thanks for reading.
Tony
haggi
02-01-2011, 07:37 AM
The reason is: There is no spoon ehh.... there is no such attribute. Ambient occlusion is defined by a string option. By default (in maya2011) it is string option number 9. So this


setAttr -type "string" miDefaultOptions.stringOptions[9].value "false";

Will turn it off while

setAttr -type "string" miDefaultOptions.stringOptions[9].value "true";

will turn it on. Maybe it could be useful to loop through the string options list and check for the name of the option to ensure that you modify the correct value.
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