Always smoothShadeAll?

[kursat-turkay]

when a new scene opened or empty one;
viewports become wireframe mode.

than pressing 5 and 5 and 5 and 5.... this pressing 5 makes millions of times.

is it possible to set always to be viewports in shadeAll mode ?
simply I dont wantto press 5 million of times
any prefence setting I couldnt find.
do you know something like this or a simple mel script does it ?

thank you.

[joojaa]

Sure, no problem.

/* jooCCRequestedNewScenePreparer.mel  1.0
 
  Author:      Janne 'Joojaa' Ojala
  Testing:     Briefly
  License:     Creative Commons, Attribute.
  Request by:  haluk cetiner
  About:
 
  simple scriptjob scaffold  for preparing new scene
  operations.
 
  Install Instructions:
  place this text in a file named:
       jooCCRequestedNewScenePreparer.mel 
  that resides in your personal Maya script directory.
 
  Usage:
  put this line in your userSetup.mel
 
  jooCCRequestedNewScenePreparer;
 
 
  Changelist:
      15.09.2012  - Original
 
*****************************************************************/
 
 
global proc jooSetAllPanelsShaded(){
    for ($ed in `lsUI -editors`){
        if (`modelEditor -exists $ed`) 
           modelEditor -e -da smoothShaded $ed;
    }
}
 
global proc jooCCRequestedNewScenePreparer(){
   scriptJob -permanent -event NewSceneOpened jooSetAllPanelsShaded;
}

[kursat-turkay]

//ktSmoothShadedAllPanels.mel
//source ktSmoothShadedAllPanels;// into userSetup.mel
global proc ktSmoothShadedAllPanels()
{
    string $editors[]=lsUI -editors;
    string $e;
    for($e in $editors)
    {
      print ($e+"\n");
      string $panelType = getPanel -to $e;
      if ($panelType == "modelPanel")
        modelEditor -edit -da "smoothShaded" -displayTextures on -dl "default" $e;
      else if ($panelType ==  "scriptedPanel")
      {
        string $cmd = "modelEditor -edit -displayAppearance \"smoothShaded\" -displayTextures on -displayLights \"default\" ";
        scriptedPanelRunTimeCmd( $cmd, $e);
      }
    }
}

int $jobNum1 = scriptJob -e "NewSceneOpened" "ktSmoothShadedAllPanels" -protected;
int $jobNum2 = scriptJob -e "SceneOpened" "ktSmoothShadedAllPanels" -protected;

[kursat-turkay]

this was mine solution.probably same.
but that would be really good if this essential functionality is under prefences window.
Im sad its not anywhere.
during many years;I hated to make patchworks like my grandmother's patched pants.
this should be a function in prefs.

thank you jojaa.

[joojaa]

but that would be really good if this essential functionality is under preferences window.

Well actually you should be able to do this without a script. I just prefeer a script since it gives me more control.

This is what you do:

1. make empty maya scene, set the viewports as you like save this.
2. open file -> new optionbox (yeah this is where the pref is)
3. enable default scene find the file you saved.

This just doesn't remember layout settings as they get cleared. so the mechanism is there its not just working. Its just that asking for brain dead simple things like this don't work in very business oriented software companies. Reason is that its really hard to justify the cost of doing the changes. So what you have is:

A: programmers that don't see a startup script as a problem
B: sales drones that cant justify the need for the feature change
C: managers who cant justify the cost

In the end you need to convince a programmer to do this as some side hobby. This is one of the reasons why some companies reserve 1/x of the time for free stuff that the programmer can do without his boss having a say so. Its an attempt to alleviate the problem. It just doesn't work out perfectly since the time gets you credits in bosses eyes anyway so you should use it to something the bosses like if you want to advance.

But yeah we could script this into the prefs.

PS: I dont putta all viewports to shaded, i find that orthographic views work better in wireframe mode. I just put the presp views to shaded. But then i do a lot fo fother stuff at startup too, such as change the shelves etc etc.