Installation

1. Code and help installation:

    • Make sure the environmental variable HOME is set on your machine and copy the mt_tools folder there. You can check if it is set by opening a shell and typing echo %HOME% if you are using Windows. On Linux type echo $HOME.

    • On Windows you can set an environmental variable using the Control Panel. On Linux, depending on the shell you are using you can add an entry to ~/.bashrc or ~/.cshrc

  • On Windows XP %HOME% is My Documents

  • On Windows 7 (and Vista?) %HOME% is C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents

  • On Linux $HOME is ~

  • Set 2 more environmental variables:

  • MAYA_HOME should be set to %HOME%\maya if you are using Windows or $HOME/maya if you are using Linux.

    • MT_TOOLS_HOME should be set to %HOME%\mt_tools\src if you are using Windows or $HOME/mt_tools/src if you are using Linux.

2. Houdini shelf installation:

  • Copy shelves/default.shelf to your $HOME/houdiniX.Y/toolbar/, where X.Y is your Houdini version(9.5 or later).

3. Maya shelf installation:

  • Copy shelves/shelf_MT_tools.mel to your $HOME/maya/$version/prefs/shelves/ folder.

  • For example, on a Windows 7 machine having a 64-bit installation of Maya 2012, this directory would be C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Documents\maya\2012-x64\prefs\shelves.

4. Nuke custom toolbar installation:

  • Copy shelves/menu.py to your .nuke directory (or add its code to your existing .nuke/menu.py file). On Windows 7, the .nuke folder is in C:/Users/%USERNAME%