Submit a job to run Maya Python

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Hi,

I want to submit a job where I run maya python command per frame, but not render anything. What plugin should I use and how can I go about doing this?

Thanks,

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Would Maya ScriptJob work? If it’s something that can be saved into the scene I’d call Maya Python, do the change and save it there instead.

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If you don’t actually need a distributed task, but can handle all the things you’re wanting to do via a single task, you can effectively use a Command Line job calling mayabatch.

We use this extensively for asset processing:

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Ah, ok. Will try these suggestions. Thanks!

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Good luck :slight_smile:

Keep in mind that your melScript.mel hook can load a python module, which is what I usually do. It’s just that the command line parameters don’t support Py at the moment (or possibly ever).

Eg., this is the relevant part ripped from our main checkin hook:

// Load Python script for further processing
print("Loading Python module\n");
python "import maya_pipeline.checkin as checkin; checkin.process(pushDownstream=True)";

So in this particular example, you could have different MEL hooks for different levels of processing, passing relevant args to your desired python module(s).

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