Share your shelves!!

[drj]

Thanks for the shelf....
I was thinking of posting this as a different thread, but thought maybe you could just answer it for me.
I am just starting out in Maya and have it at work and at home. I just installed it at work and the layout seems a bit different (ecspecially the shelves). Is there a way to take the preferences and bring them home so my layout is the same in both places?
thanks for any help
-jj

[Bpanting]

If you are using Windows you can copy it out of you profile floder. It would be under:

Documents and Settings/your user profile/myDocuments/Maya/4.0

Just copy and paste it on your other computer and you should have the same setup on both machines.

[Lunatique]

My shelves are very simple:

1)defult shelf

2)UI manipulation shelf(changing background color, fake image planes...etc)

3)Power Poly Tools(I'm still on 4.02, so I don't have them implemented)

4)MJ Poly Menu

5)Bonus Game Menu

6)Edit Polygon Menu + mel scripts like Clay Magnet, Make Planar..etc

[danyrey]

My intention initially was, that people would share custom shelves that were made for special purposes(rigging, texturing, workflow and the like) or shelves that have more complex functionality(Melscripts).

Maybe i should learn to express myself better. :rolleyes:
-daniel

[Slater]

I think this is a great idea for a thread!

danyrey: That's a pretty good shelf you got there, do you have any icons that go with it?


Here is my contribution:


POLY TEXTURING SHELF (http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/shelf_Poly_Texturing.mel)

[drj]

but, I'm trying to use these shelves to learn how people set up their workspaces a little more, but I don't know how to make this .mel show up as a shelf. I opened my script editor and opened the script, selected all and chose "save selected to shelf"...but i get one .mel on my new shelf...and i have a feeling there are more. I also tried to execute on of the mels in the script editor and didn't get anything either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[drj]

never mind...i figured out where they go...sorry!

[Lunatique]

danyrey- So we should post not only the shelves, but also the plugins/mel scripts too?

[danyrey]

hm - never thought of this, because i usually, when i put a shelf together use standard commands and icons. You know, dragging out of the script editor into the shelf and assign a icon to it.

Well, if you use other scripts in your shelves, downloaded at Highend for example then you should mention them (scriptname, author) so that people know what to search for.

sorry for the bad spelling :blush: :wavey:

[Rudity]

While we are at it lets share some marking menu's too.

Heres my marking menu for the viewports.
I have it set to the hotkey Alt+x


Viewport Marking Menu (http://www.cdis.org/~drudy/menu_Views.mel)

Enjoy.
It was made by dragging from the script editor.

Later
Rudity

[BRUTICUS]

I love my prefs, I bring them everywhere on a floppy.

All my poly tools and frequently used modeling tools are up on the North marking menu,.. including GI_JOe, Quick Selection Set Wizard, Center Picot, Delete History, Lattice,... etc,...I have to make an animation menu set for theSouth Marking menu now.


Then I have hotkeys for:

Render new image
select contiguos edges
grow shring selection
toggle between hiding UI elements and restoring UI elements.
toggle X-Ray
toggle wireframe on mesh
toggle push pull for artisan


Marking menus rule, they allow you to get the maximum size desktop and my hotkeys have the hide and restore UI elements so its really helpful.

[gladiator]

thanx for sharing buddys

[Zero_Gambit]

hey people, this doesnt refer specifically to shelves, but it does relate to them: shelf buttons. I made a few custom shelf buttons for maya, but for some reason they only work when theyre saved on the desktop. Ive already updated the image paths for the buttons to the new folder theyre stored in, but now maya refuses to recognize the files. Maya only seems to recognize bmp's when theyre on the desktop.

[Bpanting]

Anyone have any good shelf buttons bmp's they would want to share? All the ones I make are done pretty quick and ugly. Just a thought to add to this post.

[elvis75k]

maybe you'll love this...

http://www.elvis75k.com/personal/me_Shelfs.zip

[Bpanting]

The link is not working. :shrug:

[Slater]

http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/decayLight.bmp http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/lightGirl.bmp http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/mental_ray.bmp http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/rockGenIcon.bmp

Icons are for: decayLight, lightGirl, MentalRay render globals, rockGen.

So how about those SHELVES people!!

:beer:

[DeathMonkey]

I'd like to see a 'Make Toy Story' shelf up here.

[placid]

Any body have a great nurb shelf? :)

[Slater]

placid - do you have maya 4.5? There's a good NURBS shelf that comes with that...try downloading it off AW.

[placid]

i dunno what version my teacher has... it's on his computer. I'm doing it just for fun and so far I've learned polygons the HARD way... i still dont' know everything of course but I get by by just tinkering around with the shelf buttons and everything else in the menus. But I find some buttons more used than others and some good menu buttons NOT in the shelf. But I'll take your word for it and tinkering around with the current buttons on there.

[Abominable]

BRUTICUS

Hey man...how the hell did you get a hotkey to get into X-ray mode???...Please let me in on that secret because chasing that down through the menu isnt' fun. (I know how to set custom hotkeys by the way, I just cant get that xray mode one setup)

Thanks

[BRUTICUS]

Hey Abominable,..

This is the string I use as a hotkey in Maya 4.5, prolly the same in 4.0 aswell:

// get last panel that recieved focus
string $panel = `getPanel -wf`;
// toggle xray mode
modelEditor -e -xray ( !`modelEditor -q -xray $panel` ) $panel;


Not all of that info is needed but it works :)

[Abominable]

BRUTICUS:

Works like a charm for the hotkey, big thanks.
http://cdis.org/~cboutin/xray.bmp Quick icon if anyone wants a shelf button from it

Cheers!

:beer: :buttrock:

[shimra]

really good thread. thanks for the shelves.:applause:

[Chappo]

Originally posted by Slater
http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/decayLight.bmp http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/lightGirl.bmp http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/mental_ray.bmp http://www.cdis.org/~gslater/crap/icons/rockGenIcon.bmp

Icons are for: decayLight, lightGirl, MentalRay render globals, rockGen.

So how about those SHELVES people!!

:beer:

Hi, i've tried downloading the scripts " lightGirl, rockGen." but whenever i install it , i get a syntax error.
After viewing the source it says it's for Maya 3.0 and 4.0

Do you know where i can get Maya 4.5 versions ?? :)

Thanks !!!!!!

[Abominable]

Open up the .mel script with wordpad or something and check the spelling of the name of the .mel file compared to what the name of the procedure is called. Ex... lightGirl.mel could have a syntax error when it doesn't match the procedure name in the script...say....lightgirl, all it takes is an upper case when you need a lower case to bugger it up. Maybe i'm just blowing smoke out my arse, but that may be the problem with the script for ya, im not too sure. Take a look anyway. Hope it somewhat helps. Later.

[sinistar]

I dont bother with shelf icons, that bar takes up too much space, i'd rather use marking menus :)

[Slater]

Marking menus are great, but nothing's faster than dropping a mel button on the shelf for later. ;)

[M_Orlich]

I need to get some marking menus created to get myself organized. My shelves are a mess...or I would share them.:airguitar m

[kheemo]

my icons




Look through Selected : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/lookthroughselected.bmp : lookThroughSelected modelPanel4;

Material to Photoshop : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/Mtopsd.bmp

Flush Undo : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/flushundo.bmp

Delete History : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/delhist.bmp

Hypershade : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/hypershade.bmp


Batch Render : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/batch.bmp


Duplicate Shading Network : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/dup.bmp : duplicate -upstreamNodes;



....

:D

[kheemo]

few more

planar proj. x-y-z : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/x.bmp http://www.kheemo.com/maya/y.bmp http://www.kheemo.com/maya/z.bmp

UV texture editor : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/UTE.bmp

Snapshot curent view : http://www.kheemo.com/maya/snap.bmp

[Bpanting]

Very cool, thanks Kheemo. I can use a few of those, but you last post did not work. Could you try and repost them?

[kheemo]

yes something is wrong with them..I tried resaving them in jpg ...bmp .. let me give it another try :)

*edit*
good it work this time ;)

[wgreenlee1]

A customised editor shelf.
Access in 2 clicks instead of chugging throught the drop downs.


:airguitar

[borisb2]

I´d like to share my nurbs-shelves and icons. (someone asked)

curves-shelf (http://www.boris3d.de/files/shelf_Curves.mel)

Surfaces-shelf (http://www.boris3d.de/files/shelf_Surfaces.mel)

You will need the following icons for both shelves:


http://www.boris3d.de/files/USERMENUICONRNDSQU1.bmp
http://www.boris3d.de/files/USERMENUICONRNDSQU2.bmp
http://www.boris3d.de/files/USERMENUICONRNDCYL.bmp
http://www.boris3d.de/files/USERMENUICONRNDCUBE.bmp
http://www.boris3d.de/files/USERMENUICONRNDPLANE.bmp
http://www.boris3d.de/files/SPACE.bmp

The last one is just a visual way to organize the icons a bit more. It has the same color as the background... :)

Hope this helps,
Boris

[elvis75k]

thanks!

[kheemo]

Originally posted by MayaGuy
Anyone have any good shelf buttons bmp's they would want to share? All the ones I make are done pretty quick and ugly. Just a thought to add to this post.

tell me what Icon you need...for what function ..

[Bpanting]

tell me what Icon you need...for what function

Mostly just general ones like for the different windows. Like connection editor, graph editor, that kind of stuff. I have alot of buttons I made myself that I need icons for like dulpicating in the different directions by -1. I have some realy bad icons I made for them right now. I am pretty bad at making icons so if anyoe has any tips for making them, or just keep posting good one they made here that would be very cool.

[kheemo]

Ive just done those one hope it help ;)

Duplicate in all direction :

http://www.kheemo.com/maya/dup_up.bmp

http://www.kheemo.com/maya/dup_down.bmp

http://www.kheemo.com/maya/dup_rt.bmp

http://www.kheemo.com/maya/dup_lt.bmp




this one could be use for Linking window..or Connection editor ?

http://www.kheemo.com/maya/link.bmp


:D

[Bpanting]

Yea I think I can use these, thanks. They are way better then my current ones.

:thumbsup:

[Abominable]

I don't know if there is one already or not, but heres a quick icon for a shelf I find useful for slapping my checkered grid to faces for texturing and UV layout. Just make a mel command to assign your checks (if you use them) to your selection.

http://members.shaw.ca/transfers/check.bmp

[kheemo]

Abominable : nice I can use that one .. thanks for sharing ;)

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[chrisdejoya]

I made these when I was porting my max workflow over to Maya, and still needed to work through the interface visually.

http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~cmijares8/shelf.png

box, cylinder, sphere, plane, edge loop, edge ring, connect VEF, weld options, fill hole, hard/smooth edge, mirror, snap to grid, snap to point, create joint, create IK handle, insert joint, remove joint, connect joints, disconnect joints, mirror joint, smooth bind, rigid bind, delete history, actorX, hotkey editor

[kheemo]

wow those are really cool looking icons !!! thanks for sharing them Snowfly :thumbsup:

[Pent]

yes very nice, may I use some :)

[R-Tillery]

when working with shelfs, Do you need the same version to run them?:shrug:

[JeffYashiroCGT]

nice collections,

ill post my paint fx shelves maybe tomorrow or on monday if anyone's interested.

:)

[clojster]

Originally posted by JeffYashiroCGT
nice collections,

ill post my paint fx shelves maybe tomorrow or on monday if anyone's interested.

:)

I am! :beer: ;)

[tyryan]

Snowfly those are excellent :)

JeffYashiroCGT I am interested too!

[flashlevel]

This is going to sound dumb, but what are shelves?

[stallion151]

http://www.worldofmaya.com/tutorial/shelf01.jpg

Check this for the basics.
Interface (http://www.worldofmaya.com/t_mayagui.html)

[stallion151]

also Abominable

if you want to find out where to find things like Wireframe on Shaded and Xray.
Got to your Script Editor and choose Echo All Commands and then select the X-ray or whatever and the command will appear.

[zachgrachan]

heres one I use for modeling (polys). It's got some plugin buttons, but all the commands contain comments on where to get them.

[danniesanchez]

Can someone post a good shelf for NURBs modeling. I'm in my nurbs class in school and could really use a good shelf with all the best tools. :wavey:

[nottoshabi]

Were can you find great shelf icons. Besides the ones Maya already has...



:wavey:

[egf]

hello my game self

modelomatik poligonal modeling

wrapinomatik uwraping

sekeromatik animation with bones

splitomatik export to obj unreal and 3dgamestudio


i only use this shef for the complete model

hasta luegos amigos :thumbsup:

[Rick Flowers]

Originally posted by flashlevel
This is going to sound dumb, but what are shelves?


Ahem..
Shelves are hard surfaces usually mounted on a wall via brackets for use in setting items apon for appearance or usage.

I use many shelves in my basement for collecting models, books and coins.


No really, you probably already know what Maya shelves are by now- so sarcasim on my part is purely innocent typing practice.
Now I shall retire my forum time waisting acts, and get back to work.

[NUKE-CG]

Here is two icons (which could be used as shelves) for the Hypershade.

2 missing icons in the Bonus Tools made me make them.

Skin Shader / Splatter Procedural Texture

[mimo8]

Originally posted by zachgrachan
heres one I use for modeling (polys). It's got some plugin buttons, but all the commands contain comments on where to get them.

thnx zachgrachan!

I placed an tried out this shelve right now an find it a extremly usefull combinatio - also showed me some features an mels I didn´t know yet

great stuff
very recomendable shelve

[AlanW]

Here's a couple icons I made for "Blue Mel Studio," and " Light Girl."

http://blue3d.brinkster.net/images/BMS.bmp

http://blue3d.brinkster.net/images/lightgirl.bmp

You can get BMS from
http://www.maxliani.com/technology/BlueMelStudio_MainEn.html

And you can find Light Girl on highend3d.com under Mel Scripts > Rendering and Shading >

-Later

[Digidim]

http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/digidim/clone.bmp
That´s my Clone Button (Dolly)...

http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/digidim/delHistory.bmp
...and my Delete History Button (Oscar from Sesame Street...the guy living in a trashcan...)

[NUKE-CG]

Digidim
:applause:
I laughed for a solid 10 seconds, thanks :)

..hahaha.. oh shit.. I'm still going. :)

Alan, thanks for the link to Blue Mel Studio, what an awesome Plugin :thumbsup:

[Luddy]

I always seem to use the FSTP icons, I like them better than using the hotbox. Enjoy!

[shahrokh]

Hello everyone,

I think selection masks are really important in maya so I turned them into a shelf and then made a marking menu out of them (ALT+X),

Then comes a shelf for different tangents which again is not handy to change the tangent from where it is,
I also turned it to a marking menu (ALT+T),
Here they are:

GOOD LUCK

:thumbsup:

[shahrokh]

Hello everyone,

I think selection masks are really important in maya so I turned them into a shelf and then made a marking menu out of them (ALT+X),

here it is:

[MunCHeR]

Digidim Original quote:T

hat´s my Clone Button (Dolly)...


...and my Delete History Button (Oscar from Sesame Street...the guy living in a trashcan...)

Digidim, your icons dont show up in my browser, could you repost them please
:p

Or is it just my browser?

Cheers

MunCH

[Digidim]

Originally posted by MunCHeR
Digidim, your icons dont show up in my browser, could you repost them please :p

Or is it just my browser?

Cheers

MunCH

Sorry... it´s my free :blush: Webspace! Pic is attached now...

[MunCHeR]

Thanks Digidim, the clone button is a classic:applause:

Cheers

MunCH

[DezFX]

This zip file has a collection of several shelf icons.

[DezFX]

This is the second part of the pervious zip file. (20k limit)

[PsychoSilence]

here are my shelf icons in *.gif format...simply compile them into bmp and tehn happy shelfing !

hypershade
http://www.core2core.de/images/hypershade.gif

execute mel script
http://www.core2core.de/images/melscript.gif

ungroup
http://www.core2core.de/images/ungroup.gif

[PsychoSilence]

render
http://www.core2core.de/images/render.gif

render globals
http://www.core2core.de/images/renderglobals.gif

multilister
http://www.core2core.de/images/multilister.gif

[PsychoSilence]

dublicate
http://www.core2core.de/images/dublicate.gif

center pivot
http://www.core2core.de/images/center.gif

delete history
http://www.core2core.de/images/deletehistory.gif

[PsychoSilence]

delete entire history
http://www.core2core.de/images/historyx.gif

[osadkid]

Hello ,does anyone have a character or just plain animation shelve they would like to share?

[indepthinc]

I saw sample images of a tutorial that showed the Maya interface with icons of tools in a group on the left hand side. The shelf was on the bottom just above the timeline. Where and how can the Maya UI be set up like this? I haven't seen any threads on this.

[ty19345]

Thanks ~ shahrokh
your shelf tabs are really really useful, especially I am not good at script stuff...

so now I can select my clusters easily.. ^___^

Thanks for sharing:bounce:

[swapnil3d]

Hi! Gambit
its better to use icon files , you can create or change an bmp file to icon
file through photoshop or irfan view.

[hamu73]

what do you have for rigging in your shelves??

learning rigging at the moment and it would be cool if you could give me some tips

[razorback]

Ok this isnt exactly a shelf button, but it makes life so much easier, especially when you use the shelves alot and ur in a hurry.

What it does is basically go to the next and previous shelves. i basically binded hotkeys to them. I dont know how to post pictures or files so im just going to past it in here... hehehe

------------------------------------ PREVIOUS SHELF --------------------------------

global proc prevShelf()
{

int $shelfSize = `shelfTabLayout -q -nch MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout`;

int $currentShelf = `shelfTabLayout -q -sti MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout`;


if($currentShelf > 1)

{

shelfTabLayout -e -selectTabIndex ($currentShelf - 1) MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout;

}

else

{

shelfTabLayout -e -selectTabIndex $shelfSize MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout;

}

} prevShelf();



----------------------------------------- NEXT SHELF ----------------------------------
global proc nextShelf()

{

int $shelfSize = `shelfTabLayout -q -nch MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout`;

int $currentShelf = `shelfTabLayout -q -sti MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout`;

if($currentShelf < $shelfSize)

{

shelfTabLayout -e -selectTabIndex ($currentShelf + 1) MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout;

}

else

{

shelfTabLayout -e -selectTabIndex 1 MayaWindow|mayaMainWindowForm|formLayout2|formLayout14|formLayout15|formLayout49|ShelfLayout;

}

} nextShelf();

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Sheepshooter]

hi....
i dont know if its the right place to ask it....but i found it the best...
how i can make an icon on my shelf...that just pop up the script editor window or hypershader window...or paintFX visor window...

thx

[R-Tillery]

Is there a Mel out there that will reverse normals from the majority selected from a grope of normals facing the right way? Like if you have 40 normals facing out, then there are (let say) 15 facing in, having the ones facing in change their possession to the majority of (Hope that makes since). So if not, could some one make one. It would make reversing normals a lot faster to fix then going in and doing it one by one. You would be a Mel script God to the forum.:)

[snoche]

>>script editor window
showWindow $gCommandWindow;

>>hypershader window
HypershadeWindow;

>>paintFX visor window
PaintEffectsWindow;

;)

Regards,
David

[anopheles]

Is there a Mel out there that will reverse normals from the majority selected from a grope of normals facing the right way? Like if you have 40 normals facing out, then there are (let say) 15 facing in, having the ones facing in change their possession to the majority of (Hope that makes since). So if not, could some one make one. It would make reversing normals a lot faster to fix then going in and doing it one by one. You would be a Mel script God to the forum.:)
If I get you right your looking for a mel script which flipps all the normals in a specific
direction!

What I do is:
select Objekt, -> Revers Normals (All normals are on one side)
-> flip normals again -> all normals are on the other side

[R-Tillery]

He he-- yea I played around bit after I posted and found that out. bbut thanks for the reply...; )

[revilo3D]

i beleive what your after is the "conform" function...

anyway heres my shelf im building up.. with anything proven trialed anf true ends up on.

MODELING
1. Moneybrick
2. xy Shrinkwrap - hard to explain.. but adjusts vertices to fit the shape of another object.

TEXTURING
3.danny UV tools

LIGHTING
4. 3pointlight script
5. A powerlight (ramp decay) (great when used with amibent lights)
6. A custom dome script i made.. uses a mere 19 lights with good results
7. hdrshop control

RENDERING
8&9. set/unset black hole (good compositeing stuff here)

MISC/UI
10. creates a nurbs HUD that tells you spans/UV paramertisation (no need to have AA open)
11. Comet renamer..renmaeing tool without the maya bugs
12. allows you to zoom in/out without changing camera settings (handy for some image plane techniques

I have many more goodies but these live in hotkeys as im not much of a shelf user.. but these here are more so shelf item things than for hotkeys..

feel free to hunt down this scrpts and cut up this image for icons..I use a grey windows theme so all icons are made to blend in to 85,85,85

[digitaltoon]

Anyone Know Where to get the XY Shrinwrap Mel Script?
And if it's on Highend can you give me a link???

Or send it too(if you have way too much time) to digitaltoon@earthlink.net..

Thanks in advance!

[butCherHeLL]

CLICK HERE TO GET ICONS (http://kursatturkay.port5.com/shareshelves.zip)

and one more

backface culling icon http://img499.imageshack.us/img499/9936/toggleculling6bs.png

[maymore]

// Saving runtime commands to : d://maya/7.0/prefs/userRunTimeCommands.mel
// Warning: Save of "d://maya/7.0/prefs/userHotkeys.mel" failed //
// Warning: Save of "d://maya/7.0/prefs/userNamedCommands.mel" failed //
// Warning: Not all preferences were saved. See Script Editor for details. //



:sad:

[PheoneX]

maybe off topic but..
i get the same problem as maymore, except that it happens for all my environment files (ie all preferences). i have one untested theory that if i change the location of these scripts it might work, http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/info/maya/manual/UserGuide/Overview/EnvVariables.fm.html#110411
i think will help (im completely new to maya, moving from max :) ).

if any one knows the real reason why, will gladly be appreciated

[MrJames]

I find it quite handy to have a few 'Sculpt Poly' tools on the shelf; one for pull, push, smooth, erase etc..

[revilo3D]

i recomend you use the "U" hotkey instead for that. Its faster :)

[jabbermacy]

maybe off topic but..
i get the same problem as maymore, except that it happens for all my environment files (ie all preferences). i have one untested theory that if i change the location of these scripts it might work, http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/info/maya/manual/UserGuide/Overview/EnvVariables.fm.html#110411
i think will help (im completely new to maya, moving from max :) ).

if any one knows the real reason why, will gladly be appreciated

Been trying to figure this out since Maya3 - I think it's because 'My Documents' is on a SEPARATE partition (ie. C: contains Maya, F: is target for my documents). I have a major overhaul coming up in a couple days and I'm going to test this out....

[MrJames]

i recomend you use the "U" hotkey instead for that. Its faster :)

Nice one, much better :thumbsup:

[=LuxX=]

thnx a lot guys..:D

[Polyphemus]

What do you think of mine:

(I don't have one, I personally think that it uses too much space on my screen ;) Hotkeys are the way to go)

[revilo3D]

your right.. .but to shortcut all my third party scripts would be to much. I just have a shortcut to turn on and off the visibility of my shelf ;)

[dannepop@mac.com]

For all you Mac users.
I found that the PC version, of a friend of mine, had
more presets as shelves than the Mac Maya.
A shelf with fur presets, a hair preset shelf, cloth and fluids shelfs as well.
It was just to copy them over to the Mac version and they works fine!

Dp

[theystared]

No shelfs, just hotkeys and marking menus.

[zmip]

select Objekt, -> Revers Normals (All normals are on one side)
-> flip normals again -> all normals are on the other side
Well, that's not how it's working over here, the normals just reverse, as the command says. You need the "Conform" option in the Normals menu. But Conform works best (only?) if Maya knows what is the in or outside of your object. This means: it works on closed shapes (but you can often temporarily close your shape with the "fill hole" tool).

[joit]

hi guys,

here is my shelf. it's all pretty much basic but i added MR render globals and a little script i wrote which keeps the surface shader's out color node if the shader is switched to phong ;-)

[javierdl]

I'd be nice if broken links were to be repaired/updated, and all these files were to work with M8 too ;)

DPC

[respirospeed]

thanks for sharing ......

[Luddy]

Here are 5 I use.

colorpicker - For finding rgb values for mel scripting -bgc #'s.
pmframecounter - adding frame # in view and playblast
bluemelstudio - mel scripting plugin
timewarp - modify timing of selected objs with 1 timewarp curve
cometrename - rename/# multiple objects, etc

[boutiquecraft]

thanks sharing!

[DimensionalPunk]

Heres some of mine:

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2880/duplicatevl0.png
Duplicate

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/1962/xraylf8.png
X-Ray

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/494/geospherenf3.png
Geosphere

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/4578/gijoesh3.png
GI-Joe

[RySan]

My setup is simple since I deal mainly in just modeling and texturing.

1) Poly-modeling (simple poly functions, bevel, split poly,etc.

2) Texturing (UV layout, projections, face selection)

[chovasie1]

here's my set of icons for custom scripts that i use ( which are not included ) and for some standard maya operations which don't have it's own icons.

there is also a tempate button so you can make your own if you need some other.
just open template in pshop and put some text or picture...

all icons are with background that match maya's background so they fit nicely on shelves...

cheers!

[madelgado]

Great chovasie1!!! :applause:

Thanks! Gracias!

[rareseu]

here's my shelf :
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n146/rareseu/Myshelf.jpg

works great on the xp green theme, if you use a different theme it's easy to change the background of the icons in ps, also included a psd with the template

[rasamaya]

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/3d-cnx3d-mocap-2d-mouse-mocap-toolkit

My shelf for allowing realtime camera recording and control with a 3D Connexion Device.

Also includes mouse mocap tools etc.

Thanks.

[nottoshabi]

Man I love this thread. I find something new every time. Has anyone done icons for As_skinny and group button?

[nottoshabi]

Does any one have one for a group command?

[onetime]

nottoshabi, try that iconTemplate PSD that rareseu posted. I've been using it and it's really handy!

[bk3d]

Ninja Dojo

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/marketplace/scripts-plugins/dynamics/c/ninja-dojo-black-belt--2

[nottoshabi]

[QUOTE=onetime]nottoshabi, try that iconTemplate PSD that rareseu posted. I've been using it and it's really handy![/QUOT



Which one? I can not find it. I did a search for his name and I found one that he posted a while back but there was no group icon in there.

[kAzIDamUI]

ABCshelf v2.5
released on 8/15/11
by Jean Delaunay

for all notes, questions or
requests, you can send me an email at this address :
-- shelf@jeandelaunay.fr --


/!\ tested and optimized for Maya 2012 x64 on Win7 and OSX /!\

This shelf is a compilation of scripts and tools I've found online,
that friends made and others that I made.


>> DOWNLOAD & MORE INFOs HERE << (http://www.jeandelaunay.fr/wordpress/?page_id=608)


BONUS: You get my STEREOREOshelf beta !
Don't hesitate to add stuff and to tell me about it.

[bk3d]

Ninja Speed Box is a context sensitive tool box that changes when you are in different modes.
The modes are: No selection, single object, Multiple Objects, vertex, edge, and face.

The different modes contain functions mostly used in that mode.
When you only have faces selected it will change to face mode.
When you only have vertices selected it will change to vertex mode.. etc.

you can also add your own buttons to each context shelf

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/interface-display/c/ninja-speed-box

http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/173/027/173027/big/Ninja_SpeedBox.jpg?1321459030

[ldunham1]

ld_animateMe (http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/animation/c/ld_animateme-animation-tool)

some free handy tools in a compact ui for maya.
Animation re-timing, offsetting and reversing, key scaling and custom selection sets.

More info here. (http://ldunham.blogspot.com/2012/01/ldanimateme-v100.html)

shelf icon button is included as image on creativecrash (right-click save as) :)

cheers guys!

[IrinkA]

Hi. Remind please how I can transfer the tool necessary to me on a shelf? What buttons should be clamped? :shrug:
Earlier did, and now I can not remember in any way that pressed.

[ldunham1]

holding shift+ctrl and lmb with add a tool to the current shelf.

[IrinkA]

holding shift+ctrl and lmb with add a tool to the current shelf.
ldunham1
Thanks a lot! :)