Chapter 2. Installation

Overview

The installation consists of the following steps:

• Copy the MEL scripts into a scripts folder of Maya.

• Optionally create a shelf button in order to conveniently open the user interface of the animUI.

• Configure Maya in order to be able to show the animUI in a panel.

Copying the Files

• Extract the file you’ve downloaded.

• Copy the “.mel” files into your scripts directory (e.g.: ../maya/scripts).

Shelf Button

The following MEL command will open the animUI in a new window:

DPK_animUI 1;

You can create a new shelf button with this command for easier access.

The AnimUI in a Panel

To open the animUI in a panel, click on an existing panel’s “Panels” menu (e.g. in the Outliner) and choose “Panel” and then “DPK_animUI”. In case it is not listed under the “Panel” menu, you have to source the DPK_animUI script (e.g. with the MEL command source DPK_animUI.mel).

To avoid having to manually source the script every time Maya is started, you can place the following line into your “userSetup.mel” script:

DPK_animUI 0; DPK_animUI_registerPanel;

If you don’t know where to find/create the “userSetup.mel” script or what it is, simply search the Maya help for “userSetup”. One of the results should be “Run MEL commands whenever Maya starts up”.