Maya Ascii Viewer

Maya Ascii file (.ma) standalone viewer, acquire essential file information and visualize data without needing to wait for Maya to open.

Getting Started

Download the executable directly here, built with Pyinstaller

OR.

Download the source code and install all the dependencies

python asciiViewer.py

Scripting

Basic parsing

mfile = r'C:/example.ma'

loader = Loader()
blocks = loader.load(mfile)

>> len(blocks)  # number of top level maya objects parsed
--------------
4983  

>> blocks[-1].index  # the last ascii block is at line 52223
--------------
52223 

>> blocks[-1].desc  # short description of the block
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createNode animCurveUA -n "Right_MidFing_02_Pose_rotateY";

>> blocks[-1].asc.read_detail(52223)  # full description
--------------
createNode animCurveUA -n "Right_MidFing_02_Pose_rotateY";
	rename -uid "693A6E85-4839-D09B-8886-7096150EC40C";
	setAttr ".tan" 18;
	setAttr ".wgt" no;
	setAttr -s 3 ".ktv[0:2]"  -5 0.018 0 0 10 2.926;

Detail parsing:

>> blocks[-2].__class__  # type of the block, a.k.a the mel command type
--------------
<class 'asciiBlock.ConnectionBlock'>

>> blocks[-2].source  # source attribute of the connection object
--------------
ikRPsolver.msg

>> audios = Audio.from_blocks(blocks)  # parse audio node
>> audios[0].path
--------------
C:/bgm/happy-frog.wav

>> audios[0].offset
--------------
0

>> refs = Reference.from_blocks(blocks)  # parse reference node
>> refs[0].path
--------------
C:/test.ma

>> refs[0].refnode
--------------
testRN

Dependencies

• Qt: a module that supports different python qt bindings

  pip install Qt.py
  

• PyQtChart: an add-on module for Qt for creating charts (Need to check compatibility with your current Qt install, most likely you'll want to use Python 3, since PyQtChart is added after Qt 5.7)

  pip install PyQtChart
  

• qt-material [Optional]: a material inspired stylesheet for PySide2, PySide6, PyQt5 and PyQt6

  pip install qt-material
  

• guiUtil: my gui library for some handy qt templates.