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Maya Headless + Prism Tutorial

Full tutorial workflow: open Maya headlessly via action list, export geometry, push the result through Prism version creation, and verify the published path exists.

11 nodesHeadless · Action-List · Prism · 16 connections

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Execution Flow

1

Input: scene path, export object name, output dir

2

Build Maya Open Scene action

3

Build Export Alembic action with frame range

4

Execute Maya Headless with action list

5

Create Prism product version from output path

6

Verify published path exists and log result

Node Breakdown

Scene PathInput
Open SceneMaya
Export ActionMaya
Execute MayaMaya
Prism VersionPrism
Verify PathOutput

Integrations

Maya
Prism Pipeline

Tags

#maya#prism#tutorial#headless#pipeline#action-list

Source

workflows/tutorial_maya_headless_prism_pipeline.json

General workflow demonstrating core patterns

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