Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python?

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Crowson
And no this isn't the only place I'm asking this :-) I'm getting into the Maya API and I need to port some of our tools over from Soft. Google gives me all kinds of interesting links, but I'm curious to know from people here who have done dev work for both Soft and Maya (there's so many of

Re: Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python?

2014-04-17 Thread Ben Houston
There is this: http://www.maya-python.com/ On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote: And no this isn't the only place I'm asking this :-) I'm getting into the Maya API and I need to port some of our tools over from Soft. Google gives me all kinds of

Re: Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python?

2014-04-17 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
First check the SDK User Guide (not the reference), under Maya Python Plugin Learning Path http://www.autodesk.com/maya-sdkdoc-2015-enu if you need more complicated help, there is a Python Inside Maya google group. But there is a lot of stuff in the guide, including how to use Qt, sample

Re: Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python?

2014-04-17 Thread Daniel Brassard
+1 for what Luc-Eric Said. I also like these video tutorials (part 4 deal with the UI): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXFGeZZbMzQfeature=player_detailpage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7FIkbzB_N0feature=player_detailpage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijMyo-6T8Owfeature=player_detailpage

Re: Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python?

2014-04-17 Thread Andy Jones
You can pass a string command to maya.utils.executeDeferred like this: maya.utils.executeDeferred(allIWantToDoIsBuildAMenu('FFS')) I guess that will run your code when Maya finally goes idle or something. There may also be some trickery you can do that will force Maya to evaluate the main menu

Re: Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python?

2014-04-17 Thread Tim Crowson
Thanks guys! As for my issue with adding the menu, I was able to get some help over on the Maya-Python list. -Tim On 4/17/2014 11:29 AM, Andy Jones wrote: You can pass a string command to maya.utils.executeDeferred like this: maya.utils.executeDeferred(allIWantToDoIsBuildAMenu('FFS')) I

RE: Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python?

2014-04-17 Thread Nicholas Breslow
, April 17, 2014 9:31 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Any recommended tutorials/training on building Maya plugins in Python? And no this isn't the only place I'm asking this :-) I'm getting into the Maya API and I need to port some of our tools over from Soft. Google gives me all