Maya, Modules and Shelves Oh My ...

[md]

What a lame name for a post .. ahahahaha.

Anyway ...

I have a bunch of python scripts completed. I decided to try an use the Maya module paradigm for sharing these with the guys in the office.

so I have

\my_module

\icons

-bunch of icons 

\plug-ins (empty)

\presets (empty)

\scripts

- bunch of scripts 

\shelves

- my_module_shelf.mel

 

in my docs\maya\2015-x64\modules folder I have :

my_module.mod

the contents of that are as follows ...

+ sm_module any my_network_path\my_module\

MAYA_SHELF_PATH += \my_network_path\my_module\shelves\

When I launch Maya ... the module gets inspected (I can see it in windows-settings&prefs-plug-in-manager) ...

Why does my shelf not load ???

Thanks !!

[Marcus Ottosson]

Looks interesting, but out of curiosity, why not set-up a shared path for access to scripts directly? There is typically a development branch and a production branch in which developers store scripts intended for use by others. I think modules are intended for commercialisation of plug-ins and such, where the distributor has little or no control over shared assets.

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[md]

Ok ... but I would really like to have a company shelf load automatically when maya launches. That way I could update the shelf to make scripts available to artists.

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[md]

Putting the paths in my maya.env seems to work.

[David Shaw]

The module system works well for deploying script packages internally.

The way I did mine was upon submission to perforce a trigger copied the updates to the network drive.

Artists machines had a environment variable to point to the server for the MAYA_MODULE_PATH which picked up everything we needed.

Worked very well with packaging up external scripts and plugins as well.

Cheers,
Dave

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[Mike Donovan]

how did u get the shelves to load ??

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[David Shaw]

in the userSetup.py for that module I loaded from in there

Its been a while now (don't use Maya much due to work) but I was hoping they would add shelf loading to the module system automagically.

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