Excluding objects from scene save?

[quetzlcoatl]

Hi,

I've made a script for animating bouncing objects - it creates a couple of controller objects (arrow-shaped splines) so that the user can mark maximum height and end position.  The controller objects get destroyed when the user closes the script's UI.

However, if the user saves the scene whilst the script UI is open, these controller objects get saved in the scene - is there any way I can set these objects to be excluded from the save?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

[joojaa]

Not really. But you can override the default save, this does not hoever stop users form doing a forced save despire what you want. It would be much better to resume the gui after the file is opened (you can put the code state in a script node)

[quetzlcoatl]

Hi, thanks for replying - yeah, I'd rather not meddle with the save, just seems more risky than it's worth.

Resuming the gui sounds like a plan - cheers!

[quetzlcoatl]

Arrghh - have been trying to set up a script node to resume the gui when the file is opened but everyone on the team has "Execute script nodes" disabled in their open file options - is there a way I can force this on and save prefs via my script? 

[quetzlcoatl]

ah, found it.
If anyone needs it it's just the following:

optionVar -iv "fileExecuteSN" 1;
savePrefs -g;

[joojaa]

"Execute script nodes" disabled in their open file options

Maya actually puts stuff in script nodes at all times so if there's something weird going on than hats the reason. Granted script nodes make for an attack vector. Anyway as a defense from attacks it makes not much difference. Since you can instead put your payload in a expression node and that provides the same (or actually superior) attack vector.

So there's really no way to be secure in Maya without crippling entire Maya beyond belief.

Anyway option vars is something that's a per user thing, you could put it in file info instead. Or just put your payload in a expression node.

You can still use a script node tough even with execute off as you can tie the execution of script nodes to other events than just load.

Or you can put all your actions triggered by the expression.