{"id":527,"date":"2011-10-22T07:34:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/?p=527"},"modified":"2013-07-29T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T19:21:48","slug":"obj-batch-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/2011\/obj-batch-export\/","title":{"rendered":"OBJ Batch Export"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to export a sequence of frames from Maya as individual OBJ files:<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/printsquidobj.gif\" width=512 height=384 border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 1.<\/b> Download <a href=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/files\/maya_obj_sequence.zip\" title=\"OBJ Exporter\">this OBJ Exporter MEL script<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Step 2.<\/b> In Maya, go to <b>Window<\/b> \/ <b>Settings\/Preferences<\/b> \/ <b>Shelf Editor<\/b> to add the script as a button.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/step02.png\" border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 3.<\/b> Click the <b>New Item<\/b> icon to create a new blank button.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/step03.png\" border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 4.<\/b> Click the <b>Icon Name<\/b> icon to add a custom image for your button (included with the download).<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/step04.png\" border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 5.<\/b> Go to the <b>Command<\/b> tab and copy-paste the script in. Make sure the radio button is set to <b>MEL<\/b>, the language the script is written in.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/step05.png\" border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 6.<\/b> Click <b>Save All Shelves<\/b>.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/step06.png\" border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 7.<\/b> The new button should now appear in your shelf. Click it&#8230;<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/step07.png\" border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p><b>Step 8.<\/b> &#8230;to open the OBJ batch export panel.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/step08.png\" border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n<p>An OBJ sequence is a great way to do replacement animation with 3D printouts:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/tut-images\/objbatchexport\/printsquid.jpg\" width=480 height=360 border=1 vspace=5\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s how to export a sequence of frames from Maya as individual OBJ files: Step 1. Download this OBJ Exporter MEL script. Step 2. In Maya, go to Window \/ Settings\/Preferences \/ Shelf Editor to add the script as a button. Step 3. Click the New Item icon to create a new blank button. Step [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fox-gieg.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}