Installation

Please follow these instruction to install the package correctly.

Default Installation

1. Click here to download the Package:

2. Unzip the downloaded file and rename it to rfmPrimVarTool.

3. Then move the entire rfmPrimVarTool folder to the specified path:

   • Mac OS X

     • ~/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/scripts

   • Linux

     • /maya/<version>/scripts

   • Windows

     • <drive>:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\maya\scripts

4. Then in a new instance of Maya, open the script editor and run the following in your Python tab:

from rfmPrimVarTool.src import primVarApp
reload(primVarApp)
primVarApp.create_ui()

Custom Installation

In case you don’t have access to any of the above location, you can install this tool in a custom location. Following steps describe how to do it:

1. Click here to download the Package:
2. Unzip the downloaded file and rename it to rfmPrimVarTool.
3. Then move the entire rfmPrimVarTool folder to any location you want:
4. Then in a new instance of Maya, open the script editor and run the following in a Python tab:

import sys, os

# Update this path to where you copied the package
PATH_TO_PACKAGE = r"REPLACE/ME/WITH/PATH/TO/WHERE/YOU/COPIED/THE/PACKAGE"

src_path = os.path.realpath(PATH_TO_PACKAGE)

# Adding the location to system path
if not src_path in sys.path:
   sys.path.append(src_path)
   print "added {} to the path\n".format(src_path)

from rfmPrimVarTool.src import primVarApp
reload(primVarApp)
primVarApp.create_ui()

Note

Make sure you set the PATH_TO_PACKAGE to where you copied the rfmPrimVarTool package

example:

If the path to rfmPrimVarTool is this:

/Users/Shared/Autodesk/maya/scripts/rfmPrimVarTool

Then you need to set the PATH_TO_PACKAGE as follow:

PATH_TO_PACKAGE = r”/Users/Shared/Autodesk/maya/scripts”