Annotations?

[Anonymous]

hi..

Does anyone know if there is a way to fetch annotations and their locators/transforms (generated using "Create Annotation...") using the C++ SDK? The .ma file contains:

createNode transform -n "annotationLocator1" -p "|wombat|wombat";
 setAttr ".t" -type "double3" 0 -1.6343274400656131e-16 1.2639643549919128 ;
 setAttr ".r" -type "double3" 89.999999999999986 0 0 ;
createNode transform -n "annotation1" -p "annotationLocator1";
 setAttr ".t" -type "double3" 5.7499198913574219 8.7681881785392761 5.7511868476867667 ;
 setAttr ".r" -type "double3" -2.8249000307521008e-30 0 0 ;
 setAttr ".s" -type "double3" 1 0.99999999999999978 0.99999999999999978 ;
createNode annotationShape -n "annotationShape1" -p "annotation1";
 setAttr -k off ".v";
 setAttr ".txt" -type "string" "Jumps...";

thanks

[Anonymous]

I don't want to get too hung up on annotations if it turns out they aren't accessible. If there is no way to access the annotation metadata, perhaps there is an example showing creation of a custom label node tied to mesh geometry which could be exported to FBX? I've got a workaround for now, but a clean solution is always good.

[Anonymous]

meh.. think I'll dive into the Maya SDK to see about walking the DAG. This shouldn't be rocket science. Didn't find any examples of this specific to annotations but if knows of one it would be appreciated.