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[Gruik]

Hi people,

I'm new here and I don't know if it is the right part of the forum for my problem but I didn't find where to post about Maya and MEL.

This said, let's go to the reason of this post. I have a large amount of Collada meshes to convert to ".egg" (Panda3D format). As there is no converter Collada->egg, I use Maya to import the meshes with ColladaMaya (Feeling Software plugin) and then export them with a tool provided with Panda (maya2egg).

If I do these 2 steps manually, there is no problem, but I have more thant 200 meshes to convert and more coming. So I want to create a Python script which will take a directory and apply these steps to each mesh in this directory :
1) import the Collada mesh in Maya using ColladaMaya plugin and MEL
2) save the imported model in ".mb"
3) call maya2egg on the result of the second step

I have no problem for the step 3, I don't think the 2nd will be hard. But I don't find how to do the first step.
I can use any MEL command from Python with the maya module but I don't see how to use an importer plugin.

Does anybody have an idea of the way to do this ?

[Edit]
I found the way to open, save, rename files :
maya.mel.eval("file -action_to_do full_path")

There is an "import option" but when I try to import a collada file, it doesn't recognise it.
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Thanks
Benjamin

[Gruik]

For those who are interested, I had a response on the CGTalk forum. Yeah I tried on different forums because I was desperate, but now I'm good :-)
Thread's here :

http://forums.cgsoci...p?f=89&t=605391

Strarup makes the MEL script for Maya and it works great. And thanks to this I understood all I needed and can complete my Python script.

Have a nice day
Benjamin