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How to prevent Maya writing a "requires" command for a plug-in

Do you wonder why error messages about some plug-in or other that Maya cannot find continue to appear when you load a scene? Do you wish you could force Maya to unload a plug-in when saving your scene so you can avoid having it load again with the scene file ?

The objective of this tutorial is help you understand why Maya might include a reference to a plug-in in a scene file, and how to prevent Maya from doing so.

To complete this tutorial, you will need Maya 2015 SP6 or Maya 2015 Ext1 & SP6 because this Service Pack release includes two new MEL commands : unknownPlugin and unknownNode; this tutorial demonstrates how to use both of them.

Maya 2014 SP4 and Maya 2014 Ext SP2

I wanted to apologize for website issues currently affecting our Maya users who are attempting to download the latest service pack.  To help ease some of the pains while we sort out our new support site I have provided direct links to each build.  

Windows:

http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/Maya_2014_SP4/Autodesk_Maya_2014sp4_dlm.sfx.exe

Mac Os X:

http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/Autodesk_Maya_2014sp4_English_Japanese_SimplifiedChinese_MAC_OSX.dmg

Linux:

http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/Autodesk_Maya_2014sp4_English_Linux_64bit.gz

 

Folks with subscription access can get your extension service pack from the subscription site.

www.autodesk.com/subscription

 

Once again sorry for the troubles.

 

Cheers!

Nelson

 

 

 

Chinese and Japanese language users getting HUD strings in English

We have been made aware of a regression issue with Maya 2014 SP2 which was posted a few weeks ago on www.autodesk.com.

The issues occurs only in Chinese and Japanese UI.  Users will notice that the HUD strings are in English instead of the localized language.  I have been told that this is addressed for future releases including the up and coming Maya 2014 extension release.  

If you cannot wait for that release we have provided zip files for Windows and Mac users to correct the issue today.

Here are the intructions: 

1. Download one for zip file for your O/S.
2. Extract zip file.
3. Add appropriate Japanese or Simplified Chinese version of initHUD.res.mel in following local installed path.
    
   • Win64 Default Path:
     • Japanese: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2014\resources\l10n\ja_JP\scripts\
     • S Chinese: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2014\resources\l10n\zh_CN\scripts\
   • MacOS Default Path:
     • Japanese: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/Resources/ja_JP.lproj/scripts/
     • S Chinese: /Applications/Autodesk/maya2014/Maya.app/Contents/Resources/zh_CN.lproj/scripts/
4. Launch Maya 2014 SP2.

Cheers!
Nelson

Download Win64_Maya2014SP2_Japanese_Simplified_Chinese

Download MacOS_maya2014SP2_Japanese_Simplified_Chinese

Maya 2014 Sp2 released

We have released a new service pack for Maya 2014.  Please head over to the Autodesk site to download the application corresponding to your OS.

Many fixes have been made so please take a look at the release notes or the list below to see if any effect your workflow.

What's Fixed 

Bug Number	Description
Animation
MAYA-23241	Fixed crash undoing the merge of animLayers.
MAYA-25123	Fixed HIK regression causing spine joints to have unexpected transform values after characterization.
MAYA-25127	Fixed hang in Graph Editor when massive numbers of keys are selected.
MAYA-25620	Animation not updated when setting a key with animation layers.
MAYA-25717	Fixed skinCluster binding issue.
MAYA-26089	Fixed issue with smooth skin clusters and popping vertices when painting weights.
MAYA-26093	HIK : Baking auxiliary effector is corrupting referenced file.
MAYA-26221	Global scale in HumanIK not working on Mac and Linux.
Modeling
MAYA-21980	Pre-selection highlighting flickers when camera-based selection is enabled.
MAYA-22931	Detach edge breaks locked vertex normal.
MAYA-23694	Fixed mismatch of vertex normal method on shape node.
MAYA-22948	Selection Constraints do not work with Marquee.
MAYA-25787	Fixed crash when using Artisan on a mesh with no UVs.
MAYA-25797	Fixed a crash when changing display mode after lattice work.
MAYA-26348	Remove the In View Messaging for soft select radius for better performance of Soft Selection Tool.
MAYA-26500	polyEdgeToCurve crashes when evaluating inputComponents if inputMesh is invalid.
MAYA-24840	Fixed an undo crash when using the Multi-Cut tool.
MAYA-25524	Polygon Constraint window "Reset and close" button randomly crashes
MAYA-26697	Surface Precision set to “High” causes NURBS in shaded mode to be drawn offset
MAYA-23938	Quad draw: construction history is always created when using quad draw and a transform constraint
MAYA-23070	Crash when doing a polySeparate on some meshes
Platforms
MAYA-24829	Maya on Mac OS X hangs on exit in TCIPClient::shutdown
MAYA-26539	CERs on Mac OS X 10.9 cannot get assigned to buckets
Dynamics
MAYA-18962	Maya crashes when creating Lattice deformer for nParticle that has been converted to Polygon.
API
MAYA-20555	Panel tear off causes crash when a plug-in tool is active.
MAYA-24579	Fixed a problem in the .Net dagexplorer (wpfexample) sample plug-in.
MAYA-25019	Can't unload plug-ins that are derived from MPxDataType.
File Referencing - Reference Edits
MAYA-25752	File referencing: post-load callback massively increasing load times (complicated by nodeEditorPanel data).
MAYA-26262	Fixed a crash with export as reference.
MAYA-26477	Parent reference edits are not persistent.
mental ray
MAYA-20369	Fixed a problem where Mayatomr plug-in was causing the scene to prompt to save even when it was unchanged.
Rendering
MAYA-25074	Fix for UV Texture Editor with legacy style plug-in shaders.
MAYA-25246	Fixed crash after selecting Use Selected Lights for lighting on new scene.
MAYA-24958	Fixed a crash with batch playblasts on Mac OS X  if "-showOrnaments" is disabled.
MAYA-24396	Camera aim and up cannot be selected in Viewport 2.0.
MAYA-24395	Skinning: Mesh display is incorrect when zooming out of Viewport 2.0 while in the Paint Skin Weights Tool.
MAYA-26489	Batch render does not render ornaments (HUD) when using the Maya Hardware 2.0 renderer.
MAYA-24121	"Show ornaments" toggle does not work in Viewport 2.0 playblasts
MAYA-17875	Apparent interaction between viewport plug-ins and mental ray IBL “Hardware Exposure”
Scene Assembly
MAYA-24498	Fixed scene assembly issue where some edits would persist unexpectedly when switching representations.
MAYA-25047	MPxAssembly node compute method is now invoked when necessary.
UI General
MAYA-25920	Removed a previous windows optimization that is no longer needed, which caused a slowdown in the Graph Editor on  Mac OS X and Linux.