Mobu: adding a namespace to Takes

Tools MotionBuilder
#1

I’m planing to automate saving takes as files in different folder locations (game engine requirements) by assigning namespaces to takes.

So a take to be saved as–> //motion/walk/wlk_fast.fbx would be named in Mobu–> motion:wakl:wlk_fast

Although you are able to add/remove namespaces to takes via interface and with ProcessObjectNamespace() , the funny thing is that Mobu sees no difference between the .Name and .LongName (when it comes to Take objects), both return motion:wakl:wlk_fast.
So renaming the take with

lTake.Name = wlk_slow

will strip all the namespaces

Then again, right clicking on the take and renaming will properly rename the take and leave the namespaces alone.

What gives?

#2

Based on my experience with adding namespaces to Takes in 2015+, mobu would crash when someone else would open the file. This wouldn’t happen all the time but it happened about 70% of the time. So based on that, and what your experience with it seems to be, FBTakes simply don’t like namespaces, so I would recommend maybe adding FBNote objects to store / update each file’s information, or if you have external configs for FBX’s in your pipeline, conforming your tool to accept those configs instead. Let me know if this helps :slight_smile:

#3

Thanks, I ended up using take comments to store information, as there no possibility to attach FBNotes to a Take.:+1: