Export Hierarchy option does not Export Children

[Shawn_Kearney1]

I'm having some issue with exporting an ass file using CallCommand(). I can export all, but when I try to export selected with children, it doesn't seem to want to export children. The script runs, writes a file. But is just the parent-most object, and (oddly) one shader that is attached to one of the children?

def writeAss(self, system, asset):     
	#Container for the options
	options = c4d.BaseContainer()
	#name the ass file
	options.SetFilename(0, asset['ass_path'])
	#GZIP
	options.SetBool(1,False)
	#Bounds Export
	options.SetBool(2,True)
	#Binary Encoding
	options.SetBool(3,True)
	#Procedural Expand
	options.SetBool(4,False)
	#Start/End Frames
	options.SetInt32(6, 0)
	options.SetInt32(7, 0)
	#Only Selected
	options.SetInt32(11, 1)
	#Replace with Procedural
	options.SetBool(12,False)
	#Export Heirarchy
	options.SetBool(13, True)
	doc.GetSettingsInstance(c4d.DOCUMENTSETTINGS_DOCUMENT).SetContainer(ARNOLD_ASS_EXPORT, options)
	c4d.CallCommand(ARNOLD_ASS_EXPORT)

[peter.horvath6V6K3 · Accepted solution]

I've tried your code in a simple scene and it seems to be working fine. Does it happen in a specific scene with specific objects?

[Shawn_Kearney1]

Hi Peter. Thank you for testing it out. I posted this after finding my script failed using Arnold 5.0, and referenced the Arnold 5.1 documentation. Since updating now to 5.1 the script provided does seem to work properly. I am not sure what went wrong from when I first authored it last summer and after we updated the C4D plugin, but it seems to be working.

But man. That was a stressful day! 🙂