Request to the plugin writer

[PhilLawson]

Hello,

Just a quick note to whoever is the plug-in/script writer for the modo exporter in that if you are using sceneservice or layerservice commands though a scripting interpretor, you will find that it is much faster using the ScriptQuery Interfaces (see page 112 of the scripting and commands documentation). Slightly more code, but the time difference is well worth it.

i.e.

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svc = lx.Service("layerservice")
svc.select("verts", "all")
verts = svc.query("verts")
svc.select("vmaps", "all")
svc.select("vmap.name", "0")
for vert in verts:
    svc.select("vert.vmapValue", vert)
    vmapval = svc.query("vert.vmapValue")

will be much faster than:-

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for vert in verts:
    lx.eval('query layerservice vert.vmapValue ? %s' % vert)

Cheers

[stenson]

Hey Phil! Great to see you here!

I'll definitely have this in mind!
I'm going to do some tests to find out how much faster it is.

cheers

[PhilLawson]

Hi Fredrik! Also good to see you here.

It is a great deal faster - Gwynne posted a rather nice comparative test between the two methods (sorry, can't remember where), and the timings with complex scenes were reduced greatly. The same method can be applied to sceneservice, but I personally find it more of a benefit when working with selected components and vmaps.

Cheers.

EDIT: Of course, if your using the File I/O SDK, then the above is moot as the slowdown occurs through the python/perl interpretors.

[archigrafix]

great to see things are moving here! So when you plan for version we can test? I know it's perhaps a little too direct but a plugin for direct export is needed so much...

[El Burritoh]

So Frederik is doing this? Awesome! Can't wait!