Turtle: Mel to Pymel Issue

[George.Xyooj]

This sounds like it should be something simple but it has me stumped.  I'm using turtle to bake vertex lighting onto an object and I want to do this using python.  

When I manually do the process, maya spits out this mel line.

ilrVertexBakeCmd -target "pCubeShape1" -frontRange 0 -backRange 200 -frontBias 0 -backBias -100 -transferSpace 1 -selectionMode 0 -mismatchMode 0 -envelopeMode 0 -ignoreInconsistentNormals 1 -considerTransparency 0 -transparencyThreshold 0.001000000047 -camera "persp" -normalDirection 0 -shadows 1 -alpha 1 -viewDependent 0 -orthoRefl 1 -backgroundColor 0 0 0 -frame 1 -bakeLayer TurtleDefaultBakeLayer -samplingMode 0 -vertexBias 0.001000000047 -camera "persp" -frame 1 -shadows 1 -orthoRefl 1 -alpha 1 -normalDirection 0 -viewDependent 0 -useBlending 1 -rgbBlend 0 -alphaBlend 0 -rgbScale 1 -alphaScale 1 -saveToColorSet 1 -colorSet "baked_$p" -overwriteColorSet 1 -saveToFile 0 -layer defaultRenderLayer

Copying, pasting and excuting that line: everything works just fine.  

I converted it to pymel as follow:

ilrVertexBakeCmd(target="pCubeShape1", frontRange=0, backRange=200, frontBias=0, backBias=-10, transferSpace=1, selectionMode=0, mismatchMode=0, envelopeMode=0, ignoreInconsistentNormals=1, considerTransparency=0, transparencyThreshold=0.001000000047, camera="persp", normalDirection=0, shadows=1, alpha=1, viewDependent=0, orthoRefl=1, backgroundColor=(0, 0, 0), frame=1, bakeLayer="TurtleDefaultBakeLayer", samplingMode=0, vertexBias=0.001000000047, camera="persp", frame=1, shadows=1, orthoRefl=1, alpha=1, normalDirection=0, viewDependent=0, useBlending=1, rgbBlend=0, alphaBlend=0, rgbScale=1, alphaScale=1, saveToColorSet=1, colorSet="baked_$p", overwriteColorSet=1, saveToFile=0, layer="defaultRenderLayer")

This is what I'm excuting:

import pymel.core as pm

pm.setAttr('defaultRenderGlobals.ren', 'turtle', type='string') # sets turtle as renderer
pm.setAttr('TurtleRenderOptions.renderer', 1) # sets render type to bake instead of rendering
pm.setAttr('TurtleDefaultBakeLayer.renderType', 2) # sets bake to vertex instead of texture

pm.ilrVertexBakeCmd(target="pCubeShape1", frontRange=0, backRange=200, frontBias=0, backBias=-10, transferSpace=1, selectionMode=0, mismatchMode=0, envelopeMode=0, ignoreInconsistentNormals=1, considerTransparency=0, transparencyThreshold=0.001000000047, camera="persp", normalDirection=0, shadows=1, alpha=1, viewDependent=0, orthoRefl=1, backgroundColor=(0, 0, 0), frame=1, bakeLayer="TurtleDefaultBakeLayer", samplingMode=0, vertexBias=0.001000000047, camera="persp", frame=1, shadows=1, orthoRefl=1, alpha=1, normalDirection=0, viewDependent=0, useBlending=1, rgbBlend=0, alphaBlend=0, rgbScale=1, alphaScale=1, saveToColorSet=1, colorSet="baked_$p", overwriteColorSet=1, saveToFile=0, layer="defaultRenderLayer")

This error gets thrown:  # Error: keyword argument repeated # 

These are the culprits

camera "persp" 
normalDirection 0 
shadows 1 
alpha 1 
viewDependent 0 
orthoRefl 1
frame=1, 

I remove those: # Error: RuntimeError: file <string> line 2: No surfaces given, use -target "surfaceName" # 

I have tried the following and I still get that error.

import pymel.core as pm

pm.setAttr('defaultRenderGlobals.ren', 'turtle', type='string') # sets turtle as renderer
pm.setAttr('TurtleRenderOptions.renderer', 1) # sets render type to bake instead of rendering
pm.setAttr('TurtleDefaultBakeLayer.renderType', 2) # sets bake to vertex instead of texture

pm.ilrVertexBakeCmd(target="pCubeShape1")

Any help would be great!

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I have the exact same problem, it seems that the "target" flag it is not parsed correctly. My only workaround was to write that in MEL