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How to connect two maya in local area network.

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2 users open maya software in different computers in local area network and connect there maya session by python commandPort.

The final goal is both user can edit a same model at same time. when user 1 move vertex or faces.. etc these changes should live display in the view port of other user and vice versa.

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    I think you are looking for a collaboration tool which works between maya. same as google Docs where multiple users can edit the same document in same time. google is using operational transformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation . to make this possible. – Rajiv Sharma Jun 03 '16 at 06:24

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Look at the documentation of the commandPort command.

Brief answer for an unclear question.

Andreas Haferburg
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  • Thanks for suggestion. my question is very simple. and I think the answer might be complicated . what is not clear to you..? –  Jun 04 '16 at 10:20
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The command port will work to let one instance of maya respond to commands issued by another. However maya's UI is essentially single-threaded: if one user is running a script the other is locked out until it executes to completion. So there's not really 'collaborative' editing in that sense. Also, the commandPort connections are text only: it's like ssh into a maya session.

If you want both users to see and edit the model, you probably want a multi-user screen sharing tool -- but that's likely to be slow.

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