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Autodesk Maya: Blue Pencil Support in ExtractPlayblast

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AYON's ExtractPlayblast does not capture Blue Pencil annotations in review publishes, even when correctly configured in viewport settings.

Current Behavior

  • Blue Pencil annotations are visible in Maya viewport

  • Manual playblasts (via Maya UI) include Blue Pencil

  • AYON review publishes omit Blue Pencil annotations

  • Setting “Grease Pencils”: true in showhas no effect

  • Setting "bluePencil": true in pluginObjects has no effect

Root Cause

Maya uses separate optionVars for playblast display settings that are independent from modelEditor flags. The critical missing optionVars are:

  • playblastShowBluePencil

  • playblastOverrideViewport

Reference: https://gist.github.com/BigRoy/5db5b73ea6fc8d84cec48bec1cb6217f

Affects
Maya
Posted by Daniel van Westen
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  • Mustafa Zaky Jafar

    Team

    Hello, there’s a note in this PR that mentions:

    If only bluePencil is enabled, it is only working when ayon+settings://maya/publish/ExtractPlayblast/profiles/0/capture_preset/ViewportOptions/override_viewport_options disabled. If you want to enable ayon+settings://maya/publish/ExtractPlayblast/profiles/0/capture_preset/ViewportOptions/override_viewport_options and make the blue pencil working, you need to enable ayon+settings://maya/publish/ExtractPlayblast/profiles/0/capture_preset/ViewportOptions/headsUpDisplay

  • CS Team

    Team

    The good news are that it has been already resolved and been working well.

    Libor

  • CS Team

    Team

    Hi, so you say that enabling this setting does not work?

    ayon+settings://maya/publish/ExtractPlayblast/profiles/1/capture_preset/ViewportOptions/greasePencils

    Is that it? So we actually need to add new settings into the ayon-maya addon, right?

    Libor Batek | CS Team

    • Daniel van Westen

      Hi Libor,

      thanks for looking into this!

      Yes, I think playblastShowGreasePencil is a legacy setting from before Maya 2019. As far as I understand, the old Grease Pencil tool was replaced by Blue Pencil.

      Best,

      Daniel