README.md

SendToMaya

This is a function for executing Maya python script from commandline or editor like Visual Studio Code.

Environment

Python 2.7 Maya2018

Installation

1. Create a userSetup.py (if you don't have)

Windows: \My Documents\maya<version>\scripts\userSetup.py Mac OS X: ~/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya//scripts/userSetup.py Linux: ~/maya//scripts/userSetup.py

2. Add the following in userSetup.py

userSetup.py

open port
import maya.cmds as cmds
cmds.commandPort(name="127.0.0.1:7002", stp="python", echoOutput=True)

fix encoding bug

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

Usage

python SendToMaya.py --file FILENAME

Additional Usage

execute active python file with command in Visual Studio Code tasks.json

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "SendToMaya",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "Python",
            "args": [<SendToMaya.py full path>,"--file","${file}"]
        }
    ]
}

keybindings.json (ctrl+alt+m)

[
    {
        "key": "ctrl+alt+m",
        "command": "workbench.action.tasks.runTask",
        "args":"SendToMaya"
    }
]