Cached playback has no mel output

[Anonymous]

Hey,

the new cached placback toggle button, two right from the fps setting in the lower right corner does not give a mel output in the script editor.

Even if you you check 'Echo all comands'.

For people who script to spped up their workflow that would be very helpful!

Thanks 🙂

[kevin.picott]

The reason for that is that the code in the cached playback toggle button is entirely in Python so there is no Mel to output. It's a larger question for us to consider as to why that is and whether it is the right thing to do or not.

For this particular feature though there is a Mel equivalent. These are the two commands to toggle caching off and on (the UI will update automatically to match the new state):

evaluator -n cache -en off;
evaluator -n cache -en on;

[zapan669]

I believe making pure Python things is not the logic of Maya.

Or you decide to go 100% Python and print each commands in the Script Editor.
But I would fear some **** mix between MEL and Python.

When I think about it, 10 years ago MEL was way Faster than CMDS,  is it still the case ?

If so, then everything in MEL is still a good logic,  I think