This post is to remind us how to do this. J had a computer issue and had to reinstall Windows:)
- Follow this tutorial – https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/set-up-ssh-for-mercurial-728138122.html
- Make some coffee, you earned it.
If you get the “server’s host key is not cached…” error when attempting to push from SourceTree:
- Command prompt
- Go to Program Files (x86)/PuTTY
- “plink -agent bitbucket.org”
- Hit ‘y’
…with as little hair pulling as possible…
So, setting up an IDE for doing coding is a pretty good idea if you’re gonna be doing a lot of it. My IDE of choice is Wing and it can be a little tricky getting things setup right for auto-completion. If you wanna get going with it, you can…
- First download it from their site
- Add maya’s mayapy exec as a custom Python Executable in Project Properties>Enviornment
- Add your repository as a custom Python path in the same section – in my case ‘J:\repos\cgmtools\mayaTools’
- Next see their doc page for maya for help
- I had to change one item for my own setup. Maya 2011’s pi file location ended up being:
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2011\devkit\other\pymel\extras\completion\pi
- I had to change one item for my own setup. Maya 2011’s pi file location ended up being:
- Add your own computer’s path in Preferences>SourceAnalysis>Advanced>Insert and put that path in there and you should be golden
- Now, when get to the the part about the genmayapi thing, you’re gonna wanna edit it cause it won’t work off the bat depending on your version of Wing.
- Lines 5 and 7 will need to be modifed to your version of Wing. In my case, it was ‘Wing IDE Personal 4.1’
- Line 12 will again need soe work, in my case it was ‘Wing Personal 4’.
You can find the folder directly in windows at C:\Users\%Name%\AppData\Roaming.
- After those fixes you should be able to run the genmayapi and finish out the tutorial without issue.
- Make sure to install python. Maya uses 2.7.6. https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.6/
- Add the folder paths in your project properties. Python path example: \repos\cgmTools\mayaTools\
[crayon]import os
import sys
import maya.standalone
WING_DIR = r’c:\Program Files (x86)\Wing IDE Personal 4.1′
if not os.path.exists(WING_DIR):
WING_DIR = r’c:\Program Files\Wing IDE Personal 4.1′
sys.path.append(os.path.join(WING_DIR, ‘src’, ‘wingutils’))
import generate_pi
PI_FILES_DIR = os.path.join(os.environ[‘AppData’], ‘Wing Personal 4’, ‘pi-files’)
MOD_LIST = [
‘maya.OpenMaya’,
‘maya.OpenMayaAnim’,
‘maya.OpenMayaCloth’,
‘maya.OpenMayaFX’,
‘maya.OpenMayaMPx’,
‘maya.OpenMayaRender’,
‘maya.OpenMayaUI’,
‘maya.cmds’,
‘maya.standalone’,
]
def main():
maya.standalone.initialize()
for mod in MOD_LIST:
pi_filename = os.path.join(PI_FILES_DIR, os.sep.join(mod.split(‘.’)) + ‘.pi’)
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.dirname(pi_filename)):
os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(pi_filename))
print ‘Generating .pi file for’, mod
f = open(pi_filename, ‘w’)
try:
generate_pi.ProcessModule(mod, file=f)
finally:
f.close()
if __name__ == ‘__main__’:
main()
[/crayon]
Happy coding!

