ExtractSkeletonMesh Override

[Kryses]

Hey Folks,

I’m looking for a way to replace or disable the ExtractSkeletonMesh Plugin in
maya. I don’t see a way to disable it in the Maya settings on the server. I’m
writing a custom extractor in another plugin to do some custom work that my
company needs. I want to be able to do this from outside of the ayon-maya add-on
to avoid having to fork it. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

[mustafa_jafar]

Currently, AYON applies plugins’ settings automatically if settings are placed in the correct heirarchy.
e.g.
if ExtractSkeletonMesh is added below publishers category ayon+settings://maya/publish you won’t need to modify the code of ExtractSkeletonMeshplugin.

Alternatively, when the setting lives else where, you’d need to implement apply_settings in the ExtractSkeletonMeshplugin e.g. this validator in houdini that reads settings from a creator plugin.

I believe your best solution to contribute to the official ayon-maya addon to add the setting.

[Kryses]

Ok, that all sounds pretty good. The validator gives me a few other ideas, but I’ll go ahead and add the setting in and get a PR submitted.

Thanks for the insight

[BigRoy]

@mustafa_jafar

Currently, AYON applies plugins’ settings automatically if settings are placed in the correct heirarchy.
e.g.
if ExtractSkeletonMesh is added below publishers category ayon+settings://maya/publish you won’t need to modify the code of ExtractSkeletonMeshplugin.

Just adding to this - that is true if the plug-in has the settings_category attribute set, e.g. to "maya" as is done on the MayaInstancePlugin or alike.