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The Maya 2011 file browser has disappeared !

On Windows, some information about the Maya 2011 File Browser and the Maya 2011 Color Picker is stored in the registry, not the userPrefs.mel file as you may expect.

For example, the position and size of the Maya File Browser are stored in the registry location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Maya\2011.5-x64\FileDialog (depending on the version it could also be in 2011, 2011.5, 2011-x64).

The syntax of 'pos' is @Point(xxx yyy), as illustrated:

If the situation arises where you can't see the Maya 2011 File Browser, you would check the value of the FileDialog key 'pos'. Try resetting this value to @Point(0 0) and then restart Maya.

Thanks to Nicolas Holst for the tip.

Owen

unrecognised OpenGL version on Linux OS

We have customers using newer newer graphic cards with drivers that support OpenGL 3.0+.  The new Nvidia Quadro 4000 is an example of one of these cards.  When running Maya 2011 on Linux users may notice error messages in the terminal saying  "unrecognised OpenGL version"

Our development team has made an update to the version of libQtOpenGL.so.4.5.3 which includes the new code from the Qt 4.7.0 branch to recognize the newer OpenGL versions.  The modified source code of  qgl.cpp and qgl.h  are also included in the tgz file

un tar the file qt453-opengl.tgz and replace libQtOpenGL.so.4.5.3 with the file located in /usr/autodesk/maya2011.5-x64/lib

It is recommended that you make a local copy of the file /usr/autodesk/maya2011.5-x64/lib/libQtOpenGL.so.4.5.3 before replacing it.

Please follow this link for the download.

 

getting BackBurner up and running on Linux OS

Created a short video awhile back showing users how to quickly get BackBurner Manager, Server and Monitor up and running on Linux OS.

 

Export data from Maya 2011 to Alias Studio

Prior to Maya 2011 there was no easy way to export data from Maya to Alias Studio, as a .wire file, if you were using a 64 bit platform.

If you have installed a 64 bit version of Maya 2011, simply load the DCExport plugin from the Plug-in Manager, then choose the SPF_DCE from the list of file types in the Export options, as illustrated.

 

Getting the Maya web browser plugin to run on Windows 7

We have made a quick video showing users how to get the Maya web browser plugin running with Internet Explorer under Windows 7 32/64 bit.

One of the things you will notice is the HTML example file I use is not the Internet Explorer example but the other browser HTML examples.  Please use that HTML as the guide.