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abxPicker in maya 2009

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:11 pm
by juanvaldez
Hello, I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing this wrong. I can't seem to get the abx picker to work in maya 2009 on my Mac. so there are two abxPicker Versions in the Zip the abxPicker and abxPicker2011 so I 'm assuming that I should use the abxPicker for 2009 and the abxPicker2011 is for maya 2011 only. So I put the abxPicker.mel and abxPicker.bmp in the Scripts folder in /Users/YOURNAME/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2011/scripts

I did this:
Place the malcolm.ma file in a known location.
File>Create Reference. Point it to the malcolm.ma file
next import the MalcolmPicker.ma file into the same scene:
rename the Main_PIKR to malcolm:Main_PIKR

Then I ran the comand:
source "abxPicker.mel"; abxPicker;

I just get a blank abxPicker window :(

Re: abxPicker in maya 2009

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:16 pm
by daveg
Hmm. Can you try to load the sample picker file? See if that works.

Sounds like it should be working.

I know on the Mac, the background image doesn't appear, but other than that, should work fine.

juanvaldez wrote:Hello, I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing this wrong. I can't seem to get the abx picker to work in maya 2009 on my Mac. so there are two abxPicker Versions in the Zip the abxPicker and abxPicker2011 so I 'm assuming that I should use the abxPicker for 2009 and the abxPicker2011 is for maya 2011 only. So I put the abxPicker.mel and abxPicker.bmp in the Scripts folder in /Users/YOURNAME/Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2011/scripts

I did this:
Place the malcolm.ma file in a known location.
File>Create Reference. Point it to the malcolm.ma file
next import the MalcolmPicker.ma file into the same scene:
rename the Main_PIKR to malcolm:Main_PIKR

Then I ran the comand:
source "abxPicker.mel"; abxPicker;

I just get a blank abxPicker window :(

Re: abxPicker in maya 2009

Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:19 pm
by juanvaldez
The sample picker loads fine. here is the screen shots of the sample picker and the blank picker for the malcolmPicker. I loaded it in maya 2011 on windows and it all loaded fine there.

Re: abxPicker in maya 2009

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:37 pm
by dmcameron
yah, I'm seeing the same issues. Slightly different but the result is the same...abxpicker is unuseable for me right now.

Re: abxPicker in maya 2009

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:42 am
by daveg
I seem to remember now that abxPicker doesn't work in earlier versions of Maya on Mac. Possibly 2009 and earlier.

What versions are you on?

Re: abxPicker in maya 2009

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:33 pm
by juanvaldez
yeah this is 2009.

Re: abxPicker in maya 2009

Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:51 pm
by admin
Ok, I think abxPicker won't work for that then (on Mac).
juanvaldez wrote:yeah this is 2009.