Plugget Qt Maya plugin

An Autodesk Maya plugin to search, install & update Maya tools.

Installation

Installer (windows only)

1. Download & extract the project
2. drag & drop the installer.mel in Maya to install plugget qt & it's dependencies.

Manual installation

Click here to show instructions for the manual installation

1. install the Python plugin

• copy the plugget-qt-maya-plugin.py to the maya/plug-ins folder.
• or run the below command to do it for you.

pip install https://github.com/plugget/plugget-qt-maya-plugin/archive/refs/heads/main.zip --target "C:/Users/%username%/Documents/Maya/plug-ins" --no-dependencies

<sup>1. if the target folder doesn't exist, this command creates a Maya/plug-ins folder in your documents , which requires admin access
2. When a user has been renamed on Windows, %username% will return the current name. But the folder path will use the old name, requiring you to manually edit the path</sup>

2. install the Python dependencies

pip install the dependencies to the Maya script folder

pip install plugget-qt --target "C:/Users/%username%/Documents/Maya/scripts" --no-dependencies

3. enable plugin

Enable the plugget_qt_maya_plugin.py plugin in Maya's plug-in manager:
Windows > Settings/Preferences > Plug-in Manager

Launch

Open plugget qt from the Maya menu Tools/Plugget

other

• All UI logic lives in plugget-qt
• all search & install logic lives in plugget
• plugget-qt-maya-plugin does the Maya-only magic:
  • It adds a menu entry to open the UI.
  • And it makes the window dockable in the viewport

other

• plugget package https://github.com/plugget/plugget-pkgs/tree/main/maya/plugget-qt-maya-plugin
• Maya discussion https://forums.cgsociety.org/t/plugget-a-free-maya-tool-manager/2074249