Need a simple utility to check aspect ratios

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# 1 17-05-2007 , 08:12 PM

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Need a simple utility to check aspect ratios

Hi there,

Not really sure where to post this so sorry if it's the wrong place! I'm always having to open up maya to use the render globals section just to use the resolution bit so I can check that the ratio of something i'm doing in another program is correct.

Is there a way of opening just render globals on it's own without having to wait for maya to load or is there a small simple (Mac) utility that will do the same? Quicktime doesn't appear to have the ability to maintain an aspect ratio while you type in other numbers.

Hope this makes sense!
Simon

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# 2 19-05-2007 , 12:20 AM

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if you're saving out .ma rather than .mb you could simply parse the file and find it. Otherwise you could run maya in batch mode and query the render globals.

so do this:

create a script called getRenderResolution.mel and put it in the maya script path. The text below is the contents of the script.

global proc getRenderResolution()
{
int $width = `getAttr defaultResolution.width`;
int $height = `getAttr defaultResolution.height`;

print ("current render resolution is: " + $width + "x" + $height + "\n");
}

this simply prints out the resolution to a command prompt. Then on the command line when you want to query the render globals of a file:
/opt/aw//maya7.0.1/bin/maya -batch -command "getRenderResolution();" testScene.ma

that's what it was for me. If you're on windows i think you need to use mayabatch as the command to run but check the docs and you can find it all in there.

Alan

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