Maya Editor

A work in progress replacement for the Maya Script Editor

Written in Python 3 so will only work with more modern version of Maya testing on Maya 2023 using PySide2

See TODO.md for roadmap

Installing

This editor can be installed in any location I usually use my home directory.

git clone git@github.com:/NCCA/MayaEditor 

If you don't have a git account you can download the zip and extract it.

There is a simple python script to install and create the module file for the maya plugin. This is in the root of the project folder and is called installEditor.py . This will locate the modules folder for the OS and generate the file MayaEditor.mod. This file is located in the Users home folder in one of the following locations.

• Linux : $HOME/maya
• Mac : $HOME/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya
• Windows %HOMEPATH%\Documents\maya\

python3 ./installEditor.py

If this install doesn't work you can edit the provided file and modify the path to the correct locations

+ MayaEditor 1.0 /Users/jmacey/teaching/Code/MayaEditor
MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH +:= plug-ins

Loading

The plugin can be loaded from the plugin manager as shown

The editor will auto load and display. If you close the window it can be re-opened using the following code

import maya.cmds as cmds
cmds.MayaEditor()