Maya_Custom_Deformer_Plugin

A plugin for Maya that writes Hello World

Based on the tutorials by Chad Vernon:

• http://www.chadvernon.com/blog/resources/maya-api-programming/your-first-plug-in/
• http://www.chadvernon.com/blog/maya/compiling-maya-plug-ins-with-cmake/

And this tutorial for deformer plugins:

• http://www.ngreen.org/2014/08/implementing-a-simple-maya-python-deformer/

Build on OSX:

• mkdir build
• cd build
• cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DMAYA_VERSION=2015 ../ (or whatever maya version)

Compile on OSX:

• cd in to build/ directory
• sudo cmake --build . --config Release --target install

For OSX, the compiler will build the file sampleplugin.bundle,

• Open Maya and go to Window -> Settings/Preferences -> Plug-in Manager
• Browse for sampleplugin.bundle and open.

Now the helloWorld function can be run from the python terminal by:

• import maya.cmds as cmds
• cmds.helloWorld()

The deformer plugin is used as follows:

• Create an object to be deformed
• Select the object
• Apply the deformer with: cmds.deformer(type='pushDeformer')
• By changing the parameters "envelope" and "inflation" the deformer changes the mesh