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Bonus Tools is a free collection of useful Maya scripts and plug-ins. After installing Bonus Tools, users will have a pull-down menu for easy access to the tools that cover all
aspects of everyday use: general UI, modeling, animation, texturing, rendering and cloth.
Bonus Tools are provided to you on an "AS-IS" basis; Autodesk® does not provide any support in connection with this collection.
1. Install the BonusTools85 package by double clicking on the icon and following the instructions. It will install to ....\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2009\BonusTools
2. Go on to Step 1 of For All Platforms.
1. As root, install the BonusTools2009 package with the rpm command (e.g. rpm -i BonusTools2009). It will install to /usr/aw/maya2009/BonusTools.
2. Go on to Step 1 of For All Platforms.
1. Extract the package from the disk image.
2. Double click the package and the files will be copied to /Users/Shared/Alias/maya/2009
3. Go on to Step 1 of For All Platforms.
1. If you have a userSetup.mel file in your scripts path, open it in a text editor and append the lines from the userSetup.mel supplied with the Bonus Tools.
2. If you have a userSetup.py file in your scripts path, open it in a text editor and append the lines from the userSetup.py supplied with the Bonus Tools.
If you do not have a userSetup.py, copy the userSetup.py supplied with the Bonus Tools to your Maya 2009/scripts directory. Open it in a text editor and make sure that the path
points to where you installed the Bonus Tools.
3. Restart Maya and set any of the Bonus Tools plug-ins that you wish to use to auto load.
Note that the contents of the BonusTools menu will vary according to which main menu set (Animation, Modeling, Dynamics, Rendering, Cloth) is active. You may change this
behaviour with the Bonus Tools->Toggle Menu Style command.
4. Enjoy. You may refer to the bonusTools.html file (located in the docs directory where the Bonus Tools are located) for an overview of the tools.
This tool aligns UV Shells.
To use, open the Align UV Shells window with Bonus Tools->Align UV Shells... Select UVs on different shells in the Texture Editor and select the alignment option from the
window.
This tool puts meshes together - after finishing with a mirrored instance, this will make the mesh back to a single piece.
To use, select objects and a curve in any order and Bonus Tools->Merge and Combine.
This tool cuts a mesh in half and makes a mirrored instance for easy symmetrical modeling.
To use, select objects and a curve in any order and Bonus Tools->Mirror Instance Mesh.
This tool mirrors a soft mod node across a mesh.
To use, select objects and a curve in any order and Bonus Tools->Mirror Soft Mod.
LayoutTools2010 (formerly known as "LevelTools") is a suite of tools that was originally designed with game level assembly in mind. Over time however, it has become apparent that these tools are being used by many people outside of the games industry for basic layout and assembly of objects within a scene (e.g. assembling sets, blocking out architectural spaces, populating environments with objects, game level layout, etc...) LayoutTools provides new functionality for object placement, alignment, snapping and display. It also consolidates many of Maya's existing features into one streamlined, easy to use interface. The interface itself is broken down into four sections: Import, Placement, Assembly and Display.
- Improved organization of UI
- Bounding box rotation for multiple objects
- Scale percentage for multiple objects
- Randomization tools for move, rotation and scale of multiple objects
- Replication tools for quickly creating sets of similar objects
- New display toggles for bounding box and rotation axis
- Variable icon size for importing objects
- Mac compatibility (originally added in LT_2009)
- Updated help documentation
LayoutTools2010 will work with Maya2010 as well as other more recent versions of Maya (e.g... 2009 and 2008) However, due to updates made along the way, certain features are not supported in older versions of Maya. See feature descriptions in help docs for more details. LayoutTools 2010 also works on the Mac platform but will require a manual install (see below.)
Windows
1. First close Maya.
2. Then simply unzip the Maya_LayoutTools2010_Install.zip file directly into your -> MyDocuments/maya/2010 (2010x64 for 64bit).
…use equivalent folder for earlier version of Maya
3. Restart Maya.
4. Run LayoutTools by clicking on the LT button from the newly installed LayoutTools shelf.
5. This will open the LayoutTools interface as a floating window (see below for hotkey info)
Mac
1. Close Maya and Unzip Maya_LayoutTools2010_Install.zip to a temporary location
2. Put the LT scripts (LT_displayProcs.mel, LT_generalProcs.mel, LT_layoutProcs.mel, LT_placementProcs, LT_assemblyProcs, LT_optionVars.mel, LT_UI.mel)
...into your -> /Users//Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2010/scripts folder (or earlier version)
3. Put the LT_docs folder in -> /Users//Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2010
4. Put the LT icon files in -> /Users//Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2010/prefs/icons
5. Put the shelf_LayoutTools.mel shelf file in -> /Users//Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/2010/prefs/shelves
6. Put the LT_ExampleProject anywhere and just point to it from within the LayoutTools UI.
7. Restart Maya and Run LayoutTools by clicking on the LT button from the newly installed LayoutTools shelf.
After LayoutTools is started the first time, hotkeys will be automatically created for quickly reopening the LayoutTools UI. Shift "L" will open LayoutTools as a floating UI, while lower case "l" toggles LayoutTools in the Channel Box.
Unzip the nCloth folder and place it inside the folder "presets" in your maya install location.
Usage:Select a mesh and do "nCloth: Create nCloth". In attribute editor for the nClothShape when you click on the button "Presets" the new presets should appear. Simply select a preset to apply it to that cloth. Note that these preset files do not set all attributes on the cloth node, but just a relevant subset. Thickness and self collide settings are generally not affected, for example. Also all these presets set the scalingRelation attribute to "object space". This allows the stretch to be more or less constant when applied to meshes of different resolutions.
