Toggle hyperShade Window hotkey

#1

like in 3d Studio max, opening material editor with a hotkey M is really useful. so why not in maya?

this script i “searched and combined”(I didn’t made it entirely) is absolutely works on maya 2014. I just want to help the people who search for this.

here it is;

open hotkey editor,select window. on the right side click “new”. give name and description as you need. paste this to the command box;

{

if ( window -exists hyperShadePanel1Window )

deleteUI -window hyperShadePanel1Window;

else

tearOffPanel “Hypershade” “hyperShadePanel” true;

}

click accept and then go to assign new hotkey panel in the hotkey editor and assign a key as you desire.

#2

Any mel script to toggle hypershade when docked ? I works only in floating panel.

#3

unfortunately your request is out of my knowledge limits

#4

You have to search through the list of windows:

string $allObjects[];
string $obj;
string $res;

$allObjects = `lsUI -type "window"`;
for ($obj in $allObjects ) {
 $res = $obj +" \n"; // cast to string  
 if(`match "hyperShade*" $res` =="hyperShade"){
      hyperShade -userDefinedLayout true;    
      deleteUI hyperShadePanel1Window;
    break;
     }  else {
         HypershadeWindow();
     }
};

Don’t swap it on/off too quickly, Maya will crash the HyperShade scripts.