1.0 Installing GENRr8
- GENR8 is a plug-in for Alias|Wavefront's Maya. So if you do not have Maya installed on your computer, you need to install it before you can use GENR8. Also, it runs on Windows NT, so you may have to change hardware and/or operating system.
- Copy the files GENR8.mll and Genr8Icon.bmp to c:\aw\maya3.0\bin\plugins (you may have to change the path if Maya is installed somewhere else on your harddrive).
- Start Maya.
- Go to Window->Settings/Preferences->Plug-in Manager. There you can check both load and auto-load (so that you do not have to do this every time you start Maya) for the GENR8.
- Alternatively, you can go to Window->General Editors->Script Editor in the menu. In the white field, type: loadPlugin GENR8.
- In the command line at the bottom of the screen, type "GENR8", but do not hit return.
- Highlight the word "GENR8" and drag it up into the default shelf. A new button should appear saying "mel".
- Choose "Shelf Editor..." from the dropdown menu on the left side of the default shelf.
- Scroll to the bottom of the list of commands. You should see "GENR8".
- Select it, and hit the "Change Image..." button.
- Select the file "X:\aw\maya3.0\bin\plug-ins\Genr8Icon.bmp".
- Hit the "Close" button.
- Immediately quit Maya.
- Restart Maya and confirm that the button is still there and that it runs GENR8
2.0 More Preparations
GENR8.mll contains several MEL-commands and if you are comfortable using MEL, you can use it in that way. However, there is also a GUI for some of the commands. If you do not want to be typing MEL-commands all the time, it is a good idea to create shelf-buttons. These buttons should suffice in most cases, but you might want to do some command that these buttons do not handle and then you must resort to the Command Line (or the Script Editor).
- Type "genr8 -gui" on the Command Line (the white field in the lower left corner of the Maya-window.
- Select the text with the mouse and draw it up to a free space on the shelf (next to the "Particle Tool" if you not previously edited the shelf).
- Start the Shelf Editor, it can be found as the second item on the dropdown menu next to the shelf (the black arrow to the left of the "Curve with CVs")
- Scroll down to the white field until you find the "genr8 -gui" and select it.
- Change the overlay label to "genr8".
- Repeat the above steps for "degenr8" (label "degenr8"), "repellor -g" (label "repellor") and "attractor -g" (label "attractor").
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