Factory Reset / Exchange Documents Prefs (MAYA)

There comes a moment in the life of all leaders would be good to get back to the past. It It is sometimes essential to return to the Maya is that it is "default" or a condition that is known to be creative. To return to the frontier of Maya client (UI) and preferences about the world of the factory settings. Select Window> Settings / Preferences> Preferences. In the Options window, decides Edit> Restore default settings of the upper left menu. These recipes each Options dialog box and return to the default user of the basic factors that first they were hidden. Restore the default settings do not restore the tools of their individual Default settings.
Each of the options window is provided through the tool is the Edit> Reset Settings option on the menu at the top left dropdown. Unfortunately, a hard reset does not give way to a global reset for each instrument. You can force Maya to return to his inventive system configuration leaving the program, removing the Preferences folder and start the program. When Maya discovers Preferences folder does not exist, as well as the installer detects an older program, it will display the message box has two buttons.Select Set as Default. Settings button to restore the layout Maya installation. The previous settings, click the Copy button to search for a copy of the installation folder Prefs elderly. Settings button on his event is Maya installation. Selecting Copy Settings button above to download a copy of the Preferences folder of the old installation. If Prefs file is lost, and no other facility exists, Maya offers a gentle mechanical, factory default folder Pref. You can find the Prefs folder in the following locations with standard Maya 8.0

Windows: drive: Documents and Settings username My Documentsmaya8.0 prefs Mac OS X: Users/username/Library/Preferences/Alias/maya/8.0/prefs Linux: ~ username/maya/8.0/prefs Prefs folder contains a string of sub-folders and text documents that stores user settings. If you have configured the way you like Maya, it is advisable to copy all files in a safe place Prefs. If Maya culminate in a state you do not like you can just exit the program, you must delete the current folder Prefs and return your back to his seat. Storage and replacing the Prefs folder is the perfect way to set your preferences for the equipment you are required to share, such as a class. An explanation of subfolders following default. Folder icons are available in stock user icon. Mark the folder that contains the menus of meals to make. Each menu labeling is stored in a file of disconnection (eg menu_ChangePanelLayout.mel). 

Shelves a file containing the default and custom shelving. Each plate is saved to a file (for example, the set of animation _ Mel). This folder is empty until a shelf or custom stored Maya was first released. The following documents are incomplete or modernized after leaving the Maya or the Save button you press the Options window: the keys of the users. Mel lists user-defined keyboard shortcuts. Called user controls. List of Mel commands are user-defined keyboard shortcuts for them. UserRunTimeCommands. Mel stores user-defined commands. You can make your own commands runtimeCommand. For example, you can create a command that looks like home

Maya once in a dialog to check by running the following line in the Script Editor: Runtime Command control ("the message confirm Dialog timer X` ") what time; From that point forward, the state which now runs in the Script Editor window will open to verify the system time. Many of the MEL commands covered in this tutorial are too long and should be written on different lines. In fact, the script editor does not meet the line breaks as long as the end of each command is indicated by a semicolon. You can open the Script Editor, choose Window & get; other editors script editor. "To carry out a command in the script editor, you must press Ctrl + Enter after typing the command.

 UserPrefs.mel Stores, the world of user preferences, including the work unit, performance settings and options for the timeline. windowPrefs.mel Sets the default size and location of the workspace non-Windows (Hypergraph, options, windows, and so on). pluginPrefs.mel list of all loaded plug-ins automatically. After the files are altered or modernized in the colors custom user interface are saved through the Window Colors: userColors.mel, and paletteColors.mel userRGBColors. userColors.mel save custom defined colors in the color window active and inactive tabs. User RGBColors.mel stores colors specified in the Common tab of the Colors window. Colors in the palette. MEL sets the color palettes that make the index in the active and inactive tabs. You can modify an existing palette by double-clicking on a sample of the palette and choose a cool color from page to page Color Picker window. The colors are specified as RGB values ​​with a black 0-1. (If the colors are not selected, these documents are not formatted.) You can open the Colors window, choose Window. Settings / Preferences. Color Settings.