Creating Custom Icons Platform (MAYA)

A large number of Maya books have touched on the adjustment of shelves in Maya. Nevertheless, they are so wonderfully strong; they are of additional value look. Maya comes from the factory with a set of ready-filled shelves with shelf icons (also known as shelf button). You can remove these by selecting Window. Settings / Preferences. Conservation Editor, select the shelves, highlight the set, which is undesirable, and click the Remove button tray. To create a new empty shelf, click the New button on conservation. There are many ways to fill a shelf with icons shelf. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + Shift and selecting a menu thing and then as a tool that adds an icon to be seen as the time period. Pressing Ctrl + Alt + Shift key and select the options box with a tool that also adds an icon shelf, and in this box, click the icon opens the options of tools instead of using the tool immediately with its previous settings.


MMB can also highlight and drag along the lines of script that are in the Script Editor and place on a shelf.

A basic "Mel" icon is shaped. When the icon is clicked, Maya crosses all lines that were dragged MMB whatsoever. The icon of conservation can be as simple as a single real performPlayblast line MEL, which opens the Options window Playblast. The icon can be as complex as the 200 lines is important to make an entire image. When an icon of conservation exists, you can straighten lines of script in the editor platform. To do this, highlight the name of the shelf shelving the name of the tab icon select the Content tab of conservation, and make your changes in the Commands tab Edit. If you want to save your changes by pressing the Enter key. To save all the shelves, click the Save button all the shelves (which comes out of the window). You can customize the appearance of an icon shelf for entering a name in the Name box Icon. The name is above the icon. You can also use your own custom icon, click Change Picture.

Maya is able to use a 32> 32 BMP, XPM or DIB. XPM image format is a somewhat archaic Maya ASCII and supported by Silicon Graphics machines. DIB (Device Independent Bitmap) is a variety of standard Windows BMP format. You can save your icon files in the folder icons are in the program directory or Prefs folder.You can load pre-recorded a shelf, shelves select Load from the settings menu shortcuts by the arrow shelf to the left of shelf.

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