Mel and Game Exporter

[Anonymous]

Hi, I can't figure this out for the life of me.

> Using Mel, how can I change from the Game Exporter tab group "Model" to "Animation Clips"?

I've tried Script Editor + Echo All Commands and looked online, but I can't seem to find it. I'm sure it's super easy, but I don't really do any programming at all. Thanks!

[legcdesign]

I'm an animator, so this is my best attempt to do that. I took from another script and made a modification. The Game Exporter needs to be open, so I added it to the script. Hope it helps

global proc gameExp_ChangeToAnimationTab()
{
    string $animationTab = "gameExporterTabLayout|gameExporterWindow|gameExporterFormLayout|gameExporterAnimationTab";
    string $currentTab = `tabLayout -q -st gameExporterTabLayout`;

    if($currentTab != $animationTab)
    {
        tabLayout -edit -selectTab $animationTab gameExporterTabLayout;
    }
    gameExp_UpdatePrefix;
    gameExp_PopulatePresetList();gameExp_CreateExportTypeUIComponents(); 
}
gameFbxExporter() //Open the Game Exporter
gameExp_ChangeToAnimationTab() // Change to the Animation Tab

[Kahylan]

Hi!

Not quite sure why you need to do this in Mel. But this command should do it:

gameFbxExporter();
tabLayout -e -sti 2 "gameExporterTabLayout";

It does the same as the script from @legcdesign, I just removed some clutter. You don't need to query the current tab first since the select Tab command doesn't error out if you select the currently selected tab again. Also a lot of the script were built in functions that maya automatically triggers when the tab is changed so they were not really needed.

I hope it helps!