Category: Maya
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Maya 2026 API Update guide
The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2026 with some extra info. The details could be found here. Building environment On the macOS, Xcode has been updated to 14.3 or higher. Other platforms remain the same as Maya 2025. Windows – Visual Studio 2022 (17.8.3 or higher) macOS –…
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Maya 2025 API Update guide
The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2025 with some extra info. The details could be found here in the document. Building environment In Maya 2025, the building environment changes on Mac. Operating System Requirements Windows Visual Studio 2022 (17.8.3 or higher) | macOS Xcode version 14.3 or higher…
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Using Maya template for creating deformer UI
Recently, a customer asked a question about creating UI for deformers. The deformer nodes in Maya are created with a table for deformer attributes e.g., But for deformer plugins, if you don’t have an AETemplate assigned for it, it looks like this, which is not as easy to understand and has extra, but unnecessary details……
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How to build PyQt5 for Maya 2024
Maya 2024 is shipped with Python 3.10 only on all platforms. Although pip is shipped with Maya 2024, we still can’t use it to install PyQt5 on Mac or Linux. On windows, pip installed packages could work. However, it has its own Qt5 libraries installed and it may lead to problems. You may want to…
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Maya 2024 API Update guide
The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2024 with some extra info. For more details including commands and scripts changes, please checkout the documentation for more details. Building environments In Maya 2024, we made significent changes on the building environment. The minimum supported version of CMake has been updated…
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How to build PyQt5 for Maya 2023
Maya 2023 is shipped with Python 3.9 only on all platforms. Although pip is shipped with Maya 2023, we still can’t use it to install PyQt5 on Mac. Unlike Maya 2023 on windows, pip installed packages could work. However, it has its own Qt5 libraries installed. You may want to replace them with the ones…
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Maya 2023 API Update guide
The guide is based on What’s New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2023 with some extra info. For more details including commands and scripts changes, please checkout the documentation for more details. Our Maya documentation team is also interested to know how impactful Developer documentation improvements have been over the past few releases. If…
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Maya 2022 API Updates
Maya 2022 API Update guide The guide is based on What's New in the Maya Devkit in Maya 2022 with some extra info. Check the Maya documentation for the most up to date information. Build environment: The build environments have been upgraded. Mac still uses Mojave 10.14.x with Xcode 10.x, and Windows remains Windows 10…
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DevKit hotfix for Maya 2020
With the release of Maya 2020, there was a minor change to the IMF library names. It was previously named IMFbase.lib, but it’s been changed to adskIMF.lib. This caused a few problems in producing the DevKit and even in the Maya lib installation folder. For both the Linux and Windows platforms, the IMF library file…
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