Pre and post render python scripting

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Hello guys, this is my first post around here, even though I’ve been following for a couple months now.

I’ve been encountering a issue in python scripting in general and that is the reload of the script in pre render operations.

I have a script that is called renderOperations.py inside the maya scripts folder and in the Post Translate Python Script I have:

import renderOperations
reload(renderOperations)
renderOperations.main()

The weird thing is that when I first render the scene, it doesn’t run the operations it should run, only at the second attempt. I discovered around the web that the reload function seems to be a bit buggy, because some people have the same issue.

Any idea what might cause this? The operations on the script are simple: mesh smooth before render, remove it after.

Thanks in advance

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While reload can be weird, we’d probably need to see what exactly is happening in renderOperations to be able to say if it is the cause or not.

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this is the renderOperations.py code

import maya.cmds as mc
import maya.mel as mel
import os, sys

def main():

    mc.prepareRender(edit=True, preRender=preRenderOp)
    mc.prepareRender(edit=True, postRender=postRenderOp)

def preRenderOp():

    meshes = mc.ls(type='mesh')
    
    for mesh in meshes:
        a = mc.polySmooth(mesh, sdt=2, dv=2)
        
def postRenderOp():

    meshes = mc.ls(type='mesh')

    for mesh in meshes:
        
        connections = mc.listConnections(mesh)
        for connection in connections:
            if 'polySmooth' in connection:
                mc.polySmooth(connection, edit=True, sdt=0, dv=0)         
                
    mc.select(meshes)
    mel.eval("DeleteHistory;")
    mc.select(clear=True)

The weird thing is that the preRenderOp doesn’t run at the first try, but the postRenderOp does…