correctly importing pivots

[FlorianK]

when I import a particle seq into Maya, the pivot in Maya is set to the world space origin. I'd prefer if the pivot was either at the emitters original pivot or at the particle clouds center of mass (final frame).

The latter, I can write for myself in MEL, but it was nice to have the first at least as an option when importing.

[FlorianK]

Just in case you need an "Align RF particle sequence" script in Maya, but you are too lazy to code it for yourself:

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string $nodes[]  = `ls -sl`;
vector $scaleSource;
vector $trnlSource;
vector $rotPivotSource;
vector $sclPivotSource;

int $cnt = 0;

for ($n in $nodes)
{
	if (`objectType $n`	== "transform")
		{
			// case source
			if($cnt == 0)
			{
				$scaleSource = `getAttr ($n + ".scale")`;
				$trnlSource = `getAttr ($n + ".translate")`;
				$rotPivotSource = `getAttr ($n + ".rotatePivot")`;
				$sclPivotSource = `getAttr ($n + ".scalePivot")`;
				$cnt += 1;
				continue;
			}
			// case target
			if($cnt == 1)
			{
				// set pivots first
				setAttr ($n + ".rotatePivot") ($rotPivotSource.x) ($rotPivotSource.y) ($rotPivotSource.z);
				setAttr ($n + ".scalePivot") ($sclPivotSource.x) ($sclPivotSource.y) ($sclPivotSource.z);
				setAttr ($n + ".scale") ($scaleSource.x) ($scaleSource.y) ($scaleSource.z);
				setAttr ($n + ".translate") ($trnlSource.x) ($trnlSource.y) ($trnlSource.z);
				
				print ("\n Done.");
				
			}
			else
			{
				print ("no more than two nodes possible!");
				
			}
		}
};

[Hector]

Thank you very much Florian