Find youtube video title from a url

Export save data from a connected xbox one

Intercept the stdOut and stdErr to a log file

Run a python function daily.

Get time in iso format in a string.

Find json section in other text.

Extract paths from a string

On occasion i get the request to find a bunch of paths from a blob of text. Hence trying to figure out how to do this with a nice regex function. This is my favorite one so far.

Catch close console script.

Run function on script exit.

Fast(est?) get attr for each frame.

*update. Found another method. still open maya with mdg time is faster. But this is not half bad.

T.L.D.R

the “om_plug_as_double_mdg_set_time” function is the fastest I could find.
be careful with currentTime eval=False and cmds.keyframe. Scroll down for the script.

Explanation:

Soooo I had to export a bunch of data (10k+ maya files) for some dataset.
Which forced me to find a fast way to export attrbutes per frame.
(And it also had to work in mayapy)

And I dint want to have to dive into a c++ plugin or anything.

So I compared a bunch of different ways that i know to getAttr and updating the maya time.

Problems:
1. Dont use cmds.currentTime(frameNr, eval=False) !!
This results in the attribute dg not being evaluated. sooooo its useless.

2. cmds.keyframe(attr, query=True, eval=True)
This only evaluates the active anim layer’s keyframe data.
And changing the active anim layer in mayapy is a nightmare soooo… yeah don’t use it. Also it only works if there are keyframes set. So a channel with a constraint will not return any value.

So for testing i made a simple sphere and 2 additive anim layers with some animation in them.

 

Timings with a sphere:

Shortest duration for each function tested 100 times:

 

Timing with a heavier scene with skinning and constraints.

Timing becomes more clear this way.

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