maya 2015 export plugin errorrs

[makc]

So, 1st of all it requires pymel, which latest version from 2012 does not even install, unless you patch it like this.

2nd, after you go all the way and try to enable it in Maya, you get this:

// Error: line 1: ImportError: file /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/Maya.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymel-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/pymel/internal/parsers.py line 11: No module named BeautifulSoup // 
// Warning: line 1: Failed to run file: /Users/makc/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2015-x64/plug-ins/threeJsFileTranslator.py // 
// Error: line 1:  (threeJsFileTranslator) // 
// Error: file: /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/Maya.app/Contents/scripts/others/registerVectorRenderer.mel line 71: The renderer mayaVector is already registered.  To edit it, use the "-edit" flag. // 

[makc]

So I manually downloaded BeautifulSoup.py from 3.2.1 and placed it under /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/Maya.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ - now the error says:

// Error: line 1: IOError: file /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/Maya.app/Contents/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pymel-1.0.0-py2.7.egg/pymel/internal/parsers.py line 368: Cannot find maya documentation. Expected to find it at /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/docs/Maya2015/en_US // 

My /Volumes/HDD/Applications/Autodesk/maya2015/docs/ is empty 🍶 Trying to get this thing, will report how did it go )

[makc]

Useless 1G download. Pymel expects API subfolder with files like API/class_m3d_view.html which is not there.

[makc]

💩 💩 💩
looks like pymel moved to github and I was wrong to assume google code has the latest version. any way, this does not seem to be directly relevant to the exporter, so closing.

[michaelybecker]

Did installing the most recent version of pymel solve the error? So far I've inadvertently followed in your footsteps (got pymel from google code) and received the abominable "line 71: The renderer mayaVector is already registered. To edit it, use the "-edit" flag.". How did you get rid of it? Thanks!

[makc]

I don't remember ( Most probably I've found some way not involving using the exporter.

[mprice1]

Just ran into this today...
MichaelHazani: Did you make any headway here?

I notice that for me, an older version of the three.js maya exporter works as expected (while still depending on PyMel). But it does not support bones/animation, which I need...
I get the same errors as above.

[Dynasty9]

We have an exporter that handles this functionality at
https://github.com/BlackTowerEntertainment/animation-tools
On May 30, 2015 1:37 PM, "mprice1" notifications@github.com wrote:

Just ran into this today...
MichaelHazani: Did you make any headway here?

I notice that for me, an older version of the three.js maya exporter works
as expected (while still depending on PyMel). But it does not support
bones/animation, which I need...
I get the same errors as above.

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[michaelybecker]

@mprice1 : fixed in Maya 2016. No idea what was wrong but upgrading Maya and reinstalling pymel and the plugins solved it. Haven't experimented with rigging yet - I'll look into @Dynasty9 's recommendation if it breaks again (but since my plugin issues started at runtime, I doubt I'll get the problem again.)