Maya: Export Selected not exporting aiAOV types

[felipe.ruizQ99GU]

In Maya,

1. Create an aiAOV node

2. Select it

3. File Export Selected

4. Open the exported file.

5. This file does not contain aiAOV nodes

Is this a feature or a bug? If it's a feature is there a way to export these into a scene? I know you can export AOVs into a json file via the Render Settings panel but we'd like these nodes to live in the scene.

Let me know if you need more info.

--Felipe

[Stephen.Blair]

Export to what? I'll guess .ma or .mb

That is by design. Maya doesn't export AOVs. AOVs are saved only when you save a scene.

AOVs live in the scene. Exported files are brought into the scene and do not change the render setup.

[felipe.ruizQ99GU]

Thanks Stephen.

Yes! .ma or .mb, either one, it doesn't matter.

A bit of background:

We have assets that require custom AOVs and these AOVs are hooked up to custom toon shading networks. We'd like to publish these through our pipeline and load them in in-shot with the AOVs properly hooked up.

The reason why we want to use `cmds.file(exportSelected=True)` instead of `cmds.file(save=True)` is that we don't want to export other assets and other junk that exists in the scene.

Can you think of a workaround to export these aiAOV nodes to a maya file?

Thanks for your response.

Cheers,

--Felipe

[llethanh]

UP ? i have the same issue .. i wanted to export selected AVO with a python script ....