Quick Playblast Maya Python Tool

Hi,

Here's a tool I wrote to quickly make a playblast from current view... it basically uses the Maya playblast command. All thats needed is to put in a directory where u want playblasts to go.. you could even just copy and paste that path into the ui so it defaults there (u would put path in line that reads like

cmds.textFieldGrp( "oodirName",label='Directory', text='/Users/noa/Desktop/' ) 

and change it to

cmds.textFieldGrp( "oodirName",label='Directory', text='YOUR DEFAULT PATH GOES HERE' ) 

Hope you find it helpful.

#na_quickPreview.py make a movie preview for current Maya window
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#@author Nathaniel Anozie
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#modify at own risk

#last updated: 02/19/2014-02/20/2014 -- added ui fix, added directory specification option, fixed ui bug finding global variables

import maya.cmds as cmds
import os

def na_quickPreviewPlayblast ( f = '_1', dir = '/Users/noa/Desktop/' ):
    f = cmds.textFieldGrp( "oofileName", text = True, query = True)
    dir = cmds.textFieldGrp( "oodirName", text = True, query = True)
    filePath = dir+f
    #will overwrite file if one is already there
    if os.path.isdir(dir):
        cmds.playblast( format = 'movie', filename = filePath, clearCache = 1, viewer = 0, showOrnaments = 1, fp = 4, percent = 100, compression = 'none')
    else:
        print 'Cannot find output directory!!!'
    cmds.deleteUI("na_quickPreview")
def na_quickPreview():
 #global toField, fromField, winName
 winName = 'na_quickPreview'
 if( cmds.windowPref(winName, exists = True) ):
     cmds.windowPref(winName, remove = True)
 if( cmds.window(winName, exists = True ) ):
     cmds.deleteUI(winName)
 cmds.window(winName, t = "playblast window", wh=(100,70),rtf=1)
 cmds.columnLayout(adjustableColumn = True, columnAttach = ["both",5], rowSpacing = 8, columnWidth = 100)
 #fromField = cmds.intFieldGrp( numberOfFields=1, label='From Frame', value1=1 )
 #toField = cmds.intFieldGrp( numberOfFields=1, label='To Frame', value1=1 ) 
 cmds.textFieldGrp( "oofileName",label='File', text='' )
 cmds.textFieldGrp( "oodirName",label='Directory', text='/Users/noa/Desktop/' ) 
 cmds.button( "previewButton", label='OK', command=("na_quickPreviewPlayblast()") )
 cmds.showWindow( winName )

cheers,
-Nate