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Maya Profiler

Have you ever wonder why your scene is running so slow? What’s the culprit of the performance degradation? In Maya 2015 extension, we provide a new profiler tool for you to track down performance bottlenecks in your scene by recording the amount of time that each process consumes. We also provide programming interfaces to access this feature. Specifically, in MEL/Python, you can use command “profiler” to start and stop the recording of events, add profiling categories and instrument procedures for... Read more →

New Maya C++/C#/Python plug-in Wizards

This topic was suggested by one of our ADN members who had problems to setup his Mac OSX environment for building a Maya plug-in on the Mac. I quickly replied by a post here to mention what compiler / environment to use on the Mac since the Maya 2014 documentation is wrong (it actually still reference the Maya 2013 compiler / environment whereas it changed for Maya 2014). More important, you should better not upgrade to Mountain Lion if you... Read more →

Maya on .NET

For those of you who are already on the Maya Feedback Community forum (beta forum), it is probably not really new. But for all others, this is quite a big change - Maya will get a native .NET API for its Windows platform version. So I am proud to announce the Maya .NET API here. The Maya .NET API is a new technology that allows Maya plug-in developers to harness the full power of Microsoft’s .NET Framework. With the Maya... Read more →

Vote for Visual Studio x64 Edit-and-Continue

A colleague in one of our product development teams pinged me today to ask for my support in voting up this request for Microsoft to implement x64 edit-and-continue. I’m sure this isn’t the first time this topic has been raised with Microsoft – but hopefully it will be the last . I went ahead and added my votes. And what’s a blog for, if not to nudge your readers into helping each other out once in a while . I... Read more →

Debugging Python in Maya with Eclipse/Pydev

This post is a follow-up on the previous post here. Installing Eclipse & Pydev Note: On Windows: depending on whether you are on a 64 or 32 bit machine, make sure you install the correct version of Java and Eclipse. Install Java on your machine if it isn’t yet done http://www.java.com/ http://www.java.com/en/download/ie_manual.jsp?locale=en&host=www.java.com:80 Go to http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and then click ‘Eclipse Packages' Choose any of the last ‘Packages’ version. It is not really important which one you download, could be the Java,... Read more →

Python debugging in Maya

With the power of the Maya API and the scriptability of MEL, Maya Python hits a sweet spot in Maya's suite of development tools. Being an interpreted language it allows for quick turnaround, making it perfect for rapid prototyping and with thousands or dedicated users around the world contributing modules to Python, Maya inherits a large and growing array of new capabilities. However, debugging Python code in Maya has not made to be easy like it is with C++ and... Read more →