artAttrPaintVertexCtx help

Maya
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hey,
I am trying to export the painted vertices or a poly mesh to a tif file using MEL!! i just cant seem to figure out how to do it. The paintVertexColors tool has a UI in the tool settings panel, where maya has an export map button (which does want i want), but i want to do it through MEL. I have tried to go through the scripts supplied with maya to find the commands the button calls but they use so many gloabal variables etc its extremly difficult to follow. So again all i want to do is export a painted vertex map to file through MEL.

any help would be most appreciated..

cheers

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i think i figured it out (on a windows box)..once the context has been instantiated:

artExportAttrMapCB artAttrPaintVertexCtx "E:/work/vertextMap.tif" "map";

although am sure i tried this at work on friday on my linux box and it didnt work. hmm will just have to wait till monday to see if it works..

cheers..