blindDataEditor not working 2018.4

[ckrause]

Trying to access the blindDataEditor in 2018.4 on a Windows machine. The documentation says that after entering "blindDataEditor;" a editor UI for blind data should pop up. Although Maya does not error after executing this command, nothing happens, no window pops up. Tried selecting nothing, object and components.

Any help or explanation would be appreciated. Thank you.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-Mod...

[francesco.torchia]

Hi @ckrause!

I was able to reproduce the issue locally. So I have reported it to the Dev Team.

I will be back to you as soon as I have an update.

Regards,

[ckrause]

Thank you. I also misspoke, I am on Maya 2018.3

Situation is, I have a face that may or may not have blind data applied to it. I'd like to query what blind data (if any) is associated with the face by listing all the longDataNames of any potential blind data. If one of the longDataNames corresponds to the blind data entry I am wanting to pull, I want to be able to pull the template information (id, shortDataName, dataType) and then pull the actual blind data value for use in Maya.

Would you or anyone else here have any insight on how to do this? As I understand it, using the polyQueryBlindData command requires id argument which I do not have.

Thank you.

[francesco.torchia]

Hi @ckrause!

Thanks for the additional information!

I will investigate and be back to you as soon as I have an update.

Regards,

[francesco.torchia · Accepted solution]

Hi again @ckrause!

I have a workaround for you! You have to set a Maya environment as described in the article How to restore the Legacy Viewport in Maya 2018.

Let me know if the editor pops up after you have set the ENV.

Regards,

[ckrause]

That solution did work. Thank you.

I don't suppose you'd be able to fill me in on how to query the key value pair of all blind data assigned to a component via Python/Mel?

To query blind data it looks like one needs the blind data template information to query. I do not have this information (part of the reason why I wanted the editor). Any ideas on that front?

Thank you again.

[francesco.torchia]

Thanks for your quick feedback, @ckrause!

I suggest to start a new thread for clarity.

[ckrause]

No problem. Please let me know if you come up with or know anything offhand about blindly querying all blind data of a component without any of the blind data's template information in Maya / Python.

Thanks,

Clayton

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Three years later. Still not addressed. Not exactly confidence building.